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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • $10 dollars an hour is a bargain if that’s a level 3 charger (a DC fast charger). The math is somewhat complex (you take the watt delivery from the charger versus the battery size, then convert into miles per dollar, then take the expected miles per gallon of an equivalent gasoline car and take the current average price of gas to convert into miles per dollar), but you’ll see you’re winning.

    The numbers suck if that’s a level 2 charger (an AC charger), though, unless it was connected to medium voltage.




  • Here in Mexico, the current president was all like “EVs and renewable energies are all theft against the nation” because his entire plan was to tear out all solar and wind power and revive the petroleum industry. His plan failed because of simple logic (first, Mexico is nearly out of oil. Second, Mexico was already at an energy deficit in 2013 when the previous president allowed citizens to make their own energy and sell excess to the grid, so we would collapse immediately if he outlawed that) and he hasn’t said anything against either EVs or renewables in almost four years.

    I was a little tense getting an EV because of that, but thankfully nothing untoward is happening. The people most obsessed with his rhetoric aren’t the smartest, so most of them can’t identify an EV.