Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

time2roll wrote:
Compared to TX, I believe the CA administration of the grid has gone quite well. I expect this superior management to continue as we transition away from burning fuel to have electricity. EVs will be the easy part as charging is flexible.

CA is ready for the SEMI.

Not even close, 200 Texans died of deep freeze with massive black out because their leaders can't make the electric companies harden their grids and plants with winterization.:E

And the sad part, these same leaders even got the nerve to lie to their constituents that it's the turbines and renewables that failed when the windmills (it's turbines, idiot) are still going whoop, whoom, whoom, causing cancer, in nearby states.:h:S:R

Half of Texas homes are electric heat and 75% of those are resistance heat....literally the most inefficient, electricity sucking way to produce heat, so ya, there probably was a run on power during those days, lol.
But, yeah, so 200+ people died in 100 year low temps that also lasted far longer than other record or near record events combined with near record snowfalls.

200 people die every summer from heat illness too. And aside from the indigent, the majority of the deaths were likely people who were almost too weak to survive anyway...kinda like how Covid deaths got pumped up but the reality was 90+% of the deaths were people whom the NEXT thing to get them would kill them whether it be the flu or a broken hip or a stroke...


Coincidentally, I was in Dallas during that deep freeze. It was very annoying. Coming from the north, I never considered it dangerous. Heck we only had 1 hockey game cancelled out of 5 or 6 and that was after the weather stated to break...but the refs couldn't get to the rink. The most dangerous part was I had a rental car that kept locking up a front wheel so I drove around for 3 days, more often than not with one wheel acting like a ski....thank god for all the snow, or it would have been dead in the water!


Sensationalizing that event as a comparison to about anything is complete jackassery, but I would like to here your views of how you think the Cali grid would do, if it was below zero for several days from San Diego all the way up to Sacramento?
I mean, I'm sure it would be fine by your logic...people could just sit in their Teslas with the heat on watching Tik tok videos on the big screen...