I know, I was just using cobalt as an example. Prices soared for a while, then came crashing down.
This just shows the extent (40 miles in this case) people will go to fill up fast.
Also shows how much they like these cars.
Unfortunately, I must agree, even though I don’t want to. I live about 1km from a school and just this week, as the temperatures approached freezing, the air quality took a definite dive. When I went outside first thing in the morning, I smelled diesel fumes.
It’s not even winter yet when it can be thick enough to see.Mar-May are also the most curtailed for solar. Even last Sunday they curtailed on CAISO. During these times, upwards of a million EVs worth of electricity is left unused. Unfortunately, many people are still uniformed and believe they should spend $30,000 on PV and drive a gas hog SUV 20-30 mi RT to work. Yes, these are actual people, some even scientists, in the PNW where our grid is essentially carbon free hydro. Everyone in WA/OR/CA should stop driving on fossil fuels ASAP and charge between the hours of 9am-2pm. Then, once we’ve soaked up all the excess solar electricity isn’t EVs and pushed all the remaining off on neighboring coal states, then we can spend the extra R&D to produce hydrogen (or other chemical storage compounds) for longer term use.California's grid keeps getting cleaner too, so 2016 data is already out of date: emissions are down almost 20% from July 2016 to 2019. Total GWh are on track to be roughly the same, despite increasing numbers of plugin vehicles. Gasoline sales may have peaked, but it's too soon to be sure about that.
The 2019 CARB Hydrogen report is couched in careful bureaucratese, as you'd expect. But a careful reading reveals that fueling station deployment is falling behind schedule, but that overall growth is limited by automakers are dragging their feet.
Finding 2: Station network development through 2018 and early 2019 has continued to remain largely on schedule [...]
development progress for the future has been adjusted compared to prior estimates, with 52 stations now expected to be open by the end of 2019 compared to 62 as previously reported.
Finding 3: Auto manufacturer projections for FCEV deployments do not demonstrate sufficient acceleration to support the FCEV deployment goals [...] the projection for 2025 represents another one year delay in reported deployment plans [...] auto manufacturer deployment projections have not yet advanced California’s projected FCEV fleet towards the 2030 goal of one million vehicles
CARB is now projecting a gap between vehicles on the road, which are lagging badly, and station deployment, which is apparently easier to organize by government fiat. If this happens according to projections, the resulting hydrogen network won't have enough customers to be economically sustainable. Somewhat sanely, they're recommending more care in station site selection.
The tone of the report is still "Full speed ahead!" — but cracks are beginning to appear. If those cracks continue to widen, California may eventually realize that they're pushing on a string. How many years will that take? That remains to be seen.
That’s one interpretation. Prisoners also love prison food. Look how many crimes they commit and their willingness to sacrifice the outside life in order to get in there and eat that chow. It really shows how much they like that food, right?This just shows the extent (40 miles in this case) people will go to fill up fast.
You're right, I did. Here is the article. It mention something about solar panels and storage. I was thinking, $30M is way too much for some battery powered trucks. With the details in modbee, it doesn't seem too bad.
So, Toyota, one of the world’s largest auto manufacturer, managed to sell 3000 hydrogen powered vehicles and a lowly Silicon Valley start up named Tesla, according to Wikipedia, has managed to sell 720,000 EVs. Ok, game over. Lock this 170 page thread.
