Even with good public transit I’d have to sell my house and move to get a job and travel with public transit. I feel like that’s a bit excessive if I had to get another one and move more. My commutes 250 miles a week and I was using a tank of gas a week. Went electric and I use 20-30kW to charge per day. 16k miles in on my first year. Hopefully one day I’ll get solar installed and reduce even more too.
Solar is pretty damn sweet. My only gripe is that I installed my system before getting an EV, so during a couple winter months I sometimes have to use electricity from the grid. Not a lot, but just enough to make me mad that I’m not 100% self sufficient. Had I gotten an EV before installing solar, I could have gotten a bigger system.
My power company has some rules that say I can’t do net metering with them if I install a system that was greater than 100% of my average annual usage or some BS.
Ouch that sucks. I don’t want a roof install though that seems the most common. I got a half acre open land with farm land east and west with no trees so I figured I could do a decent size system.
That’s awesome. There’s a guy I’ve met in a small town in Iowa that has a setup like that and he lets people use his Tesla charger since it doesn’t cost him anything.
Even with good public transit I’d have to sell my house and move to get a job and travel with public transit. I feel like that’s a bit excessive if I had to get another one and move more. My commutes 250 miles a week and I was using a tank of gas a week. Went electric and I use 20-30kW to charge per day. 16k miles in on my first year. Hopefully one day I’ll get solar installed and reduce even more too.
Solar is pretty damn sweet. My only gripe is that I installed my system before getting an EV, so during a couple winter months I sometimes have to use electricity from the grid. Not a lot, but just enough to make me mad that I’m not 100% self sufficient. Had I gotten an EV before installing solar, I could have gotten a bigger system.
My power company has some rules that say I can’t do net metering with them if I install a system that was greater than 100% of my average annual usage or some BS.
Ouch that sucks. I don’t want a roof install though that seems the most common. I got a half acre open land with farm land east and west with no trees so I figured I could do a decent size system.
That’s awesome. There’s a guy I’ve met in a small town in Iowa that has a setup like that and he lets people use his Tesla charger since it doesn’t cost him anything.
The thing with public transit vs EVs though is targeted towards governments and corporations, not necessarily to individuals