EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
So much wheel spinning on EVs, what if they are not the right path forward? The biggest problem with renewable power and EVs is storage, the second is storage, and the third is storage. Another pat...
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RambleOnNW wrote:Reisender wrote:
Yep. Europe will be on the cutting edge of this out of necessity. For smaller vehicles electric is nice because you can fuel at home in your driveway. And it’s relatively cheap compared to gas. Hydrogen is pricey. And the amount of solar homes is growing really fast so much of your fuel comes from your roof.
It will be fun to watch.
Electric works well for some and your compact RV setup is cool. Ignoring the fact that our 200A panel is full with no room for another 240 volt breaker (yes we have solar) and 120 volt charging may be too slow, we have been known to do 450 mile one-day drives into winter storm warnings to ski areas. I couldn’t see doing that in a BEV. So choice is good.
Yah. Choice is excellent.
If you ever want to go the BEV route you can always just go the load share device route. They are pretty popular up here on the homes with 100 amp panels. It essentially loads shares a 30, 40 or 50 amp 240 out breaker from something like a stove, or dryer, or hot tub or whatever. The sharing is user determined by time, or use or whatever. Eg your dryer circuit becomes your EV charge circuit between 1 and 6 in the morning.
We have a 100 amp panel but fortunately we have a gas furnace so a 32 amp EVSE was possible without the load share thingy.
We occasionally do a 940 kilometre (ish) road trip in winter. Hasn’t been an issue for us. But of course there needs to be charging infrastructure on the routes you travel. We are fortunate that way.
Cheers.
