Bros burning gas complaining EV tech isn’t green enough for them.
Do you have a closet full of incandescent bulbs from 2007?
Actually I run my house on LED bulbs, incandescent bulbs produce way too much heat and are energy hogs. I keep my thermostat set to 80 degrees in the summer. As for heating, in the winter it's at 66 degrees and I wear a sweater. During that 4 day outage outage I mentioned I had a 3500 watt portable generator providing power to the house. For the entire house I had one single line to the house and that circuit on the generator is rated for 15 amps. The breaker never tripped and I didn't have to limit anything except the usage for the microwave. To use the microwave I would wait until both the furnace and refrigerator were idle, because those are to two highest draw items in use at that time. BTW that outage was in the winter so no A/C needed. Checked my account with DTE and the usage for 8-13-2022 was a 24 hours average load was 307.78 Watts/hour with occasional surges as high as 452 watts for the hour when the air kicked on. To date my highest electric bill is $76.26 and that was for last August when temps were in the 90's on some days. I'll also note that I filed my car up yesterday, 382 miles on the tank and it took 10.4 gallons of premium, average speed for that tank full was 26 mph, all City driving. So yeah, I do my bit to conserve energy.
I'll also note that you should do a Google search for the term "average powerline loses for USA". The result will surprise you, probably a lot. They are actually 1% higher than what I expected.
What is more efficient and produces less carbon emissions? A Gas Furnace or a Heat Pump? Bet you'll get that wrong as most are being told the wrong answer. Take that Heat Pump and subtract another 5% from the listed efficiency. Because the average powerline loss is 5%. Now compare that new efficiency to a high efficiency Gas Furnace. Note I happen to know this number because I had to replace my old 94% efficient furnace with a new one because the control card had failed and it was 30 years old with no new card available. The new furnace cost 9000 dollars and is listed at 96% efficiency. Ah, but you'll say your Heat Pump doesn't produce any Carbon emissions. Did you forget the powerplant that produced your electricity is powered by Natural Gas? BTW, current efficiency for a natural gas powered turbine engine is 35%, so a gas turbine directly powering a generator has pretty poor efficiency. Next up for gas powered generators is a gas boiler (80%) feeding a Steam Turbine (90%) with a Net Efficiency of 72%, still a bit heavy in losses compared to gas furnace. Net result is that Gas is actually more efficient and Greener than Gas Powered Electric. Want to compare your electric water heater to my gas water heater, you'll lose there to. You've got the pesky powerline losses in addition to that poor efficiency for the turbine powering the generator. Actually if you factor that poor turbine efficiency into the net efficiency for an electric car it's quite possible that a gasoline powered auto has a lower Net Carbon Footprint than an electric car. As for why, it's probably the weight of the battery that is the killer. If you want your EV to be truly green that is simple, limit your range and use Solar for re-charging.
Take note, this is pretty clear evidence that we are being fed a line of bunk about electric being so green. Electric is only green when it's being provided by a carbon free source. That means Wind, Solar, and Geothermal. All interesting technologies and all totally inadequate for providing the volume of power an all electric motor fleet will require. So lets look at Wind, otherwise known as Kill all the Birds. Then there is Solar, or Lets not grow Food anymore. What is left is Geothermal - hopefully they won't try this at Yellowstone because it may trigger that super volcano that could kill the whole planet. End result is that long term you'll be spending more time pedaling a bicycle than driving a car, because charging that car will come with limitations. Good news is that it should result in drop in the 40% average Obesity Weight issue in this country.
Point is that the Media, Manufactures, and our Government haven't done their Due Diligence and are all rushing headlong into adopting a technology that we are not prepared for. As a result I foresee that there will be an energy crash in 8 to 10 years that will take out the power from coast to coast and it will take time and a monumental amount of effort to get the Grid back up and running within a month at best, worst case it could take 6 months.