EVs are just superior

I now average 700 miles or so per week commuting 60 miles each way and some mountain driving on week-ends, courtesy of all those chargepoint stations. When commuting to Santa Monica I was averaging 1000 miles a week so having an EV and that freedom to go anywhere on a whim really makes you drive a lot. I am sometimes jealous of not having a Fast DC port but the average cost of a level 2 station is a few K vs. 100-200 grands for a Fast DC outlet. There is no noticeable reduction in battery capacity and I often top it off. Kudos to the metrolink chargers in Anaheim that pump close to 6.7 kw. Strangely enough the paid chargers nearby only average 5.6. I read about the Toyota Mirai and definitely like the fact fuel cell technology seems operational and below a 7 figures price tag for the first time in hundreds of years but the infrastructure is the Achile's heel of it: 1) $1 million per hydrogen fueling station. A grand total of 10 in SoCal now 2) Hard to image how someone can refuel a...

This is the reason why I have an electric car. At the end of the day we either behave like amoeba or we are lucid enough to make sacrifices in our lifestyle to avert a catastrophe: This graph shows 97% of all vertebraes are now human beings and their livestock or pets. The rest of the biomass is pretty much negligible in size. Should we destroy more habitats to look for oil and sustain the unsustainable? already we are beyond the carrying capacity of the planet and any destruction upon the monoculture that sustains us will have devastating effects. Mismanagement of the Planet can be reverted with small steps.

So I went to Julian once again and this time the trip was even more enjoyable. The car does best on downhill where there is no need to use the breaks... it just regenerates. But uphill and on curves its true characteristics and the low center of gravity due to the battery pack make it an awesome rocket that carves the road like it would be on rails. Passing other motorists is incredibly easy and reminds me of riding a high power motorcycle like a Ducati I used to own a few years back. This is especially important as along the whole of the 79 there are only 2 spots where one can legally pass and both are less then 1/2 mile in length so an ultra fast speedup followed by a quick slow down is necessary to stay within the range of the dotted line and with a good sight of the opposing traffic. The smoothness of the power curve is, well, just that: Linear and swift. The mountains is where a high performance EV really shows how much electrics are mechanically and performance wise far superior ...

Yesterday decided to visit someone in the high desert, and also test my battery and range after crossing 21k and racking up about 100 miles a day since then now. I changed work and no longer need to commute 203 miles a day between Murrieta and Santa Monica. Nonetheless the range is as solid as ever. Up the Cajon pass did cost me 1/3 of the battery but then it was all cruising along. And when I fully charged there I could make it all the way back to Murrieta 97 miles away through ups and downs across the 15 and 215. Nightime the temp dipped to 27 and the steering became slightly noisy (grease needed?) and the tires are sensitive to it given their pressure will dip by 5-7 PSI under such conditions which needed me to add some pressure. I passed the 22k mark on the way down. At this rythm I expect > 40k by the first year I will have the car. Long distance commuting and long range travel within 300 miles are definitely the best qualities of a pure electric vehicle.

Thanks for Ghandi for this upmostly relevant quote. We obviously need it in what is aptly described as a right wing nut reaction to something now far superior and threatening to the established kleptocracy of black shit from the ground consuming poisonous beasts: The establishment goes nuts against the Tesla Here's my response to the criticism of the Tesla: Fuck you Wall Street Journal! You just don't get how gasoline cars are already dead, do you? All this now shows is how far ahead electric cars are now, and as the performance and capabilities increase every year the BEVs can now see all those preposterous and obsolete monsters in their rear view mirror. Film, meet the CCD, tape, meet the CD, and gasoline car, meet the BEV. As I crossed 18500 miles in my i3, far superior mechanically than any car within quite a large radius I believe, I can savor my low footprint, my utmost disdain for wars in foreign countries done in the name of that black shit from the ground we absolutely...

The more I drive my BEV the more I realize the pervasive and noxious nature of ICE cars. They now seem inferior in every way. A BEV is about 3-5 times more energy efficient per unit energy used to move its body around. To testify to that here's a look at my energy consumption thanks to ChargePoint. We can safely add 100 % as I am also getting my energy from other sources i.e home, blink and the free charging in Santa Monica, so 3 MWh seems a fair bet. That means 3,000,000 X 3600 = 10.8 Billion Watts (or Joules). This as I crossed 17k since March so in about 5 months. That is about 5.8-6 kWh per mile.  Gasoline has about 44.4 MJ/Kg. So I consumed 10.8e9 / 44.4e6 = 243 kg of equivalent gasoline. That would be 536 lb of gasoline or 90 galons. But there is a problem: only 15% of that energy in gasoline above gets actually converted to useful work in an ICE engine subjected to the Carnot cycle, whereas BEV use more than 90% of the energy in the battery quite effectively. Let's assum...

I finally heard a small rythmic noise on one of the back tires the other day and sure enough it was a small screw. It was in the part of the tire with the most rubber so I was hoping no damage was done, which was even confirmed after I pulled out the piece, but sadly a tiny portion made it inside and I was faced with a small leak, maybe 1 PSI a day. The tire pressure indicator is definitely precise to indicate that. What am I to do? well strangely enough the i3 is not stuck with those expensive run flat tires that are irremediably damaged after a small puncture, at the convenience of another 50-100 miles (don't get me wrong that may be useful as those punctures tend to happen in the rain and the middle of the night per the quantum theory based Murphy's law), so I can repair it myself using an inexpensive kit which I did. It does hold up to now. At this point there is absolutely NOT a single justification to ever own a gasoline cat again... in fact their looks alone with that na...