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MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Apr 03, 2018

Painful Night Rather Than Waste It = Rough Number Crunching

California 20 million electric cars. Annual average mileage data taken fro state online sources. Mileage based on various online estimates. Remember these are ROUGH figures. 4.5 hours worth of crunchi...
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theoldwizard1
Explorer II
Apr 03, 2018
bighatnohorse wrote:
California does have a lot of sunshine though.
PV panels are cheaper and improving. Battery technology research has many improvements, some quite stunning, waiting in the wings.

The problem with solar energy is that it is not NEAR the location that you want it at and TRANSMISSION of electricity over long distances is not without some losses.

Plus the INFRASTRUCTURE to get it from where it is generated to where it is needed typically do NOT EXIST !

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