Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Charged my car yesterday while grocery shopping, this is how much it costs (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by jaykrown@lemmy.world to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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In Chicago area for anyone wondering using the Walmart charging network. This is about ~13% capacity, wasn't really low started charging at about 70%.

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if this applies to something like an off grid solar car charging setup.

I know the panel and weather requirements are hard to work around, maybe once salt or solid state batteries bring storage costs down we could have modular containers that could be dropped all through the desert or at gas stations and parking lots.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

Off-grid part surely bumps the question into fruit stand territory (not a lawyer)

But decentralized energy storage is a foregone conclusion once you accept that the most abundant source of energy isn’t diurnal