400 mile electric RV

rlw999 wrote:

Timmo! wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Compliance will be achieved by making traditional energy sources absurdly expensive.

That's right, punish good willed people for following their individuality and not bowing to the "one size fits all" majority.

My wife drives 3500 miles a year. If she were to buy a BEV today (pick one), when will her new BEV achieve carbon parity with a comparable ICE vehicle? I speculate the battery pack will hit end of life long before that day and the carbon emissions from manufacturing the new battery pack will essentially extend her "breakeven" point by another decade or so.

So, forcing my wife to buy a BEV is not a GREEN solution. Whereas, forcing you to buy a BEV is probably a very GREEN solution.

You omitted some key information like what car your wife is driving, so I put her in a 33 mpg small car. Since she drives so little, and you said I can pick the BEV, I put her in a Mini Cooper SE EV. I picked a pessimistic 100kgCO2/kWh for the battery pack, Tesla is about half that in their American produced batteries. I picked the German power mix, which is fairly close to Oregon where about half the power comes from renewables, and most of the rest comes from Natural Gas.

This calculator came up with 20,000km, or 12,500 miles, so your wife's BEV will reach carbon parity in about 4 years.

The battery warranty will cover her for 8 years/80,000 miles, but at such low usage, it will likely last much longer than that.

The section I highlighted in bold is an incorrect "assumption".

All the lower 48 states with the exception of Texas participate in the national power grid (AKA "The Grid").

In all of the states that participate in the grid, the power from all power stations across the US are "shared" regardless of the states borders.

Texas runs their own independent "grid" which does not share power generation from outside the states border.

So, in reality plugging your vehicle into the "grid" in your home state can and will use power from other power generation systems outside of your state. Pretty much negating every single "advantage" of being "green" since you are now partaking of coal and natural gas produced power..

Some states like PA do offer the option to specify a certain power generation company based on a specified preset time limited cost per KWhr or if you want to attempt to use only power generation companies which are "renewables" only.. And by the way, specifying only all "renewable" generating power typically results in paying a considerably higher cost per KWhr further negating any cost savings over liquid fuel powered vehicles.

Not to mention, even if you have specified a renewable power generation company, you are still using the national grid to get the power to you.. If your hand picked source does not have enough generation capacity the short fall is made up by all the other "dirty" power generation sources..

And yes, I get bombarded with all kinds of electric company scams because of PAs PUC allowing anyone that wishes to "sell" power, access to POCO customer information..