Fast charging: I don't have personal experience yet and don't know the reason, but I've seen this gripe on several EU EV forums. IIRC Tesla is pretty good at maintaining a high charge rate for quite a while, but most EVs taper pretty quickly. Some hold their rated peak for only a few minutes.
Texas: Steve said it pretty well. It's a Galt's Gulch state. If you live there, better not skip reading the fine print. As un-winterized power plants went offline one after another the per-kWh spot price shot through the roof. No legal consequences, except for customers who can't pay $16k electric bills. I read that at least one TX energy supplier sent urgent messages to its customers telling them to change suppliers IMMEDIATELY because they were otherwise going to be stuck with Texas-size bills. Right, I'll get on that straight away, as soon as I've boiled water for brushing my teeth, split a few more logs for the fireplace, and found the stop valve for the burst pipes flooding my master bedroom and bath. Banking: if you're going to trust utilites (or anyone else) to tap your bank account for the bills, it's a good idea to give them access only to a separate account in which you keep a limited balance. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = First they came for the journalists. We don't know what happened after that. -- Unknown = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
