Maybe you do, but increasingly across the US, no green deed goes unpunished. Not only are states fining EV drivers wtih punitive road taxes higher than their ICEV-driving friends pay, I've heard that some utilities are, or will be in the future, charging so much for the use of their "battery" that you might as well not bother with the PV.
I'm not an expert on this, but it appears to me that when you combine that with the future availability of depreciated EV batteries, in many areas of the US, being voluntarily off-grid will soon make economic sense again. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator In fairness, I can see the logic behind these schemes. Much of the money used for road maintenance comes from fuel taxes. On average about 50 cents per gallon, which works out to $250-$300 for the average dead dino burner. So that's $250-$300 a year they aren't getting from EVs. I also so the power companies complaint that solar customers, like me, that zero out their bill aren't paying any of the fixed costs for the grid (repairs, maintenance, upgrades, salaries, etc.). However they aren't always fair when they calculate their 'fixed' costs. My power comes from a Co-Op, and they buy the power from another company. They buy a base amount of power that they have to pay for even if they use less than that (which they NEVER have) so they considered that a "fixed" cost, even though they are already going to sell all of it and then some. The problem is they used the "fixed" costs to come up with a new rate that they are going to charge their solar customers to make sure they pay their fair share. Even though I generate all the power I use (and then some), with their new "solar customer" pricing schedule I'll end up paying basically the same every month as I would if I didn't have any solar at all. They are phasing in the new price structure a little bit each year, so it's still 2 years until it's fully implemented, and I have about 3 years left of my Performance Based Incentive. So, 2-3 years from now I'm buying batteries, and a few more panels, and disconnecting, it will be cheaper than staying connected. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200126/92d50561/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
