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Climate Change 3: Whatever you do don't call it a twatwaffle

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I love that battery tech is moving beyond lithium ion. While lithium - and all that comes with it - is much cleaner and more environmentally sound than ICE/fossil fuel-based vehicles, there's still much to improve upon.


I have a PHEV and love it. 40 miles on a battery charge, which gets me most of my local driving. With the supplied 110v Type I charger I can go from 0-100% in about 16.5 hours. A decent Type II charger reduces that to about 2.5-3, and only that long because the 0-10% and the 80%+ get slowed down substantially. At this time, if you're into EVs but are wary of the incredible rate the technology is changing and/or are a single-vehicle family, PHEVs are a terrific option.

Some bullets in my ~4 months of ownership:
  • I haven't put gas in the car in 2 months (18.8 gallon tank will help there).
  • For local driving it's on battery 95% of the time, and the only time the gas motor kicks on is if I need to punch it hard, or it's cycling to avoid gas staleness issues.
  • If the battery is fully charged and a highway trip is up to about 50 miles, it mostly uses that and my result is something like 90-200 mpg (depending on how I drive).
  • If I cannot charge it for the ride home, it's much less obviously but my combined mileage tends to be in the 50s mpg.
  • Charging is often free - there are a TON of free charging stations. And those that aren't free cost relatively very little. The other day at a ChargePoint station I got 35 miles of range for $3.11, and if you charge at home, it costs a small fraction of that.
 
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I love that battery tech is moving beyond lithium ion. While lithium - and all that comes with it - is much cleaner and more environmentally sound than ICE/fossil fuel-based vehicles, there's still much to improve upon.


I have a PHEV and love it. 40 miles on a battery charge, which gets me most of my local driving. With the supplied 110v Type I charger I can go from 0-100% in about 16.5 hours. A decent Type II charger reduces that to about 2.5-3, and only that long because the 0-10% and the 80%+ get slowed down substantially. At this time, if you're into EVs but are wary of the incredible rate the technology is changing and/or are a single-vehicle family, PHEVs are a terrific option.

Some bullets in my ~4 months of ownership:
  • I haven't put gas in the car in 2 months (18.8 gallon tank will help there).
  • For local driving it's on battery 95% of the time, and the only time the gas motor kicks on is if I need to punch it hard, or it's cycling to avoid gas staleness issues.
  • If the battery is fully charged and a highway trip is up to about 50 miles, it mostly uses that and my result is something like 90-200 mpg (depending on how I drive).
  • If I cannot charge it for the ride home, it's much less obviously but my combined mileage tends to be in the 50s mpg.
  • Charging is often free - there are a TON of free charging stations. And those that aren't free cost relatively very little. The other day at a ChargePoint station I got 35 miles of range for $3.11, and if you charge at home, it costs a small fraction of that.
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Lithium is the CFL of battery tech.
 
NYT with a great piece about how aquifers throughout the US are drying up and not being replenished.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html

Oklahoma is working to determine how much water remains in its aquifers, information that state lawmakers could use to set limits on pumping. But Christopher Neel, the head of water rights for the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, said people might not necessarily welcome the government telling them that their land is running out of groundwater.

“If we start showing that kind of data, that kind of goes into your property values,” Mr. Neel said. “If we show an area may be depleted in, let’s say, two years, well, if someone tries to sell that property, they’re not going to be able to.”
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Profits above people.
 
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