Just to fact check on the $17000 electric bill. It really wasn’t hyped up. News account I read says:
Last month, his bill for all three was $660. So far, for this month’s electricity, he owes more than $17,000. That’s 25x , ok so maybe he uses more in the cold , but note the bill is ‘so far this month’, implying it’s not a full monthly bill. In the same article, for someone else, it showed a bill with $2 per kWh. Don’t know what the normal cost is but since Texas is supposed to normally have cheap electricity- let’s say $0.10 - that’s 20x. -Steve > On Feb 23, 2021, at 6:05 PM, Peter Eckhoff via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > As a ex-Bolt Premier and a Tesla Model 3 owner, I love the Bolt and > appreciate the technology of the Model 3 but I feel safer in the Bolt > because of its safety set up. Somehow, my Model 3 does not see a > vehicle in my blind spot until it **is** in my blind spot. How can > Tesla can see a 1/4 mile down the road but not see a "dump truck" in > my blind spot? Tesla says my sensors are okay. Chevy put lights in > their side view mirrors. When a vehicle enters **or is about to > enter** my blind spot, the lights in those mirrors light up yellow. > They were not perfect but it's blind spot detection is far above that > of my Model 3. > > With the Bolt, if I am parked between two humongous SUV's and start to > pull out in reverse, the sensors see people and cars approaching and > they warn me. Not so the Model 3. If I want to see what is behind me > in the Model 3, I can press the rear view camera button and it takes > up a lot of the touch screen making it difficult to do other things > until the camera is turned off. With the Bolt, the rear view camera > signal is fed to the rear view mirror. Once I discovered that, I > never went back to the rear view mirror as a plain rear view mirror. > > My son was in need of a commuter car so I "sold" him the Bolt. It's a > great commuter car and he saves a lot by not buying gasoline but road > trips are not as convenient as you are finding out. There are > Electrify America stations that he can recharge at toward the end of > the week. He's Level 1 at home. With respect to the Bolt, the range, > recharge times, and recharge stations are minor league compared to the > Tesla cars and network. He pays more for electricity. > > In some ways, I think the price of a Tesla hides the cost of the > recharging and software updating systems. I paid about $0.23/kwhr in > an area where home rates > are about $0.11/kwhr but I don't use them hardly at all. I know my > son pays more. The Supercharger network is well worth that price. If > I want to take a trip, it's got to be in the Tesla just for the range > and recharge times along with the spacing of the Supercharger network. > > Hope that helps. > > >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:42 AM Mark Hanson via EV <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi folks >> When I fast charge on the Road to 80% with my Bolt EV it takes about an hour >> to put back 25KWH. The manual says it should be 55kwh in an hour. Does >> anyone know why it’s not charging at the 55KW rate? Is there an aftermarket >> kit to boost the KW acceptance rate? Electrify America fast CCS chargers >> operate to 350KW. Also I paid 43c per kWh at Sheetz near Charlottesville Va >> (home is 12c). I assume they split the take between Sheetz and Electrify >> America (VW)? >> I saw on the news that folks in Texas are paying $100s per KWH and utilities >> cleaning out checking accounts $10k-$16k since direct link to accounts. How >> is this even possible to charge that much per KWh? Aren’t utilities >> regulated for a max per kWh they can charge? I have a direct link to my >> checking account with my utility to pay the monthly $31 service fee (net >> zero solar customer ) but maybe I should discontinue my checking account >> number with them and go back to monthly billing/paper checks so they >> couldn’t clean out my checking account? >> Have a renewable energy day >> Mark in Roanoke >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210223/145a9dc9/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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
