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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Energy => Topic started by: thackney on October 14, 2019, 02:55:10 pm

Title: Tesla owners in California get a warning to charge their cars before the power goes out
Post by: thackney on October 14, 2019, 02:55:10 pm

Tesla owners in California get a warning to charge their cars before the power goes out
https://www.fastcompany.com/90415333/tesla-owners-in-california-get-a-warning-to-charge-their-cars-before-the-power-goes-out (https://www.fastcompany.com/90415333/tesla-owners-in-california-get-a-warning-to-charge-their-cars-before-the-power-goes-out)
10.09.19

Pacific General & Electric (PG&E) is cutting power across large swaths of Northern California, including the Bay Area, in a drastic bid to prevent wildfires.

Now Tesla is warning people that before they settle into their outage outrage, they should really charge up their electric cars.

You see, electric cars are great options—except when there is no way to power them up. To be as proactive as PG&E, after hearing the news of the impending power cut, Tesla jumped into action, sending out an in-car alert to the dashboard display warning owners to charge their vehicles fully ahead of the outage.

As Electrek points out, most Tesla owners don’t charge their vehicles to 100%, because it’s a bit of a time suck, and the batteries last such a long time that it’s not usually necessary—until the power company cuts the electricity, that is. Of course, Tesla just so happens to have another gadget that can help in the case of an emergency power outage—its PowerWall. Before the lights go out, Tesla is activating the “Storm Watch” feature on its PowerWall to store excess electricity before things go dark....

Title: Re: Tesla owners in California get a warning to charge their cars before the power goes out
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on October 14, 2019, 03:02:48 pm

Absolutely hilarious.

Title: Re: Tesla owners in California get a warning to charge their cars before the power goes out
Post by: Fishrrman on October 15, 2019, 12:19:20 am

Electric cars that you can't drive -- no power. (can't charge the battery)

Solar panels on your roof, and you can't use your lights -- no power. (the panels send their output to the power company, NOT to your own house)

In California, it's back to this:
(https://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/fenomen-unscented-block-candle-beige__0432192_PE586207_S4.JPG)

And this:
(http://canyontrailsranch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/custom-horse-buggy-restoration.jpg)

Title: Re: Tesla owners in California get a warning to charge their cars before the power goes out
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on October 15, 2019, 02:04:32 am

Quote from: Fishrrman on October 15, 2019, 12:19:20 am

Electric cars that you can't drive -- no power. (can't charge the battery)

Solar panels on your roof, and you can't use your lights -- no power. (the panels send their output to the power company, NOT to your own house)

In California, it's back to this:
(https://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/fenomen-unscented-block-candle-beige__0432192_PE586207_S4.JPG)

And this:
(http://canyontrailsranch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/custom-horse-buggy-restoration.jpg)

Australia has already solved this problem in the stupidest way possible.
(https://thedriven.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG-0738.jpg)

Think about it:  Instead of using a proven, relatively inexpensive and highly efficient gasoline combustion engine to power vehicles, it is encouraging EVs that cost more and do poorly on range.  This diesel setup is a generator that supplies the electricity to get the car batteries replenished.  Of course it takes hours to do what a couple of minutes filling up the gas tank would do instead.

So why get an electric car to begin with is the elephant in the room.

This is the definition of green whacky fantasy the libs wish to foist upon us.