=In 2013, the leading developers in the solar carport market were the familiar names of SunPower, SolarCity, and SunEdison.=
I watched SunPower take an 8% hit the market the other day on ‘weak guidance’. When that happened I pulled the trigger and went in. So far I’ve gotten a 9% return on my money as the stock rebounded a few days later. My First Solar is still sitting at about of 25% gain. I’m starting to build a pretty good renewable portfolio….
And it’s been a few days since i watched this, but i think 2018 is also the supposed implementation of carbon fiber parts in a mass produced vehicle. This is another playlist; hope it brings the right video up; was having trouble with my playlist on another recent article:
Wow – nice! I read that the i3 is the most fuel efficient car on the US market at something like 125 or 127 mpg equivalent. $40,000 is outside my price range (I was thinking of going for a used Volt here in a couple years). But it’s not too terribly expensive.
All that robotic stuff looks like something out of science fiction.
Depends on your needs. Used Leafs are getting inexpensive.
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Other than the home, plug in cars will sit at work!!!! Let’s not over complicate this, and always try to please the guy that won’t buy an ev until he can tow a boat that he doesn’t even own. 🙂
Look at this please! Workplace charging Works!!! http://www.slideshare.net/greenmotioninc/what-u-need-2-no-36365347
Via Motors retrofits trucks and vans with electric motors a la Chevy Volt, where you drive the first 40 miles on electric, then the motor kicks in. They can pull boats: the electric motor supposedly has more torque than the CE motor.
Unless tech changes, every battery in a developing country is a battery that can’t be use in an electric car. There isn’t enough Lithium to go around – all batteries will have to be recycled.
McCracken apparently thinks all EVs are Tesla model S’s with the large (85 kWh) battery pack. He doesn’t seem to realize that the Leaf has 24-25 kWh, which is far more typical of today’s fleet. PHEVs have even less; the Volt has a 16 kWh battery, the Fusion Energi is 7.6 kWh if memory serves, and the CMAX Energi and Prius plug-in even smaller batteries.
I just did a search for forklift batteries. I came up with this page for a battery for a Caterpillar 25E: 3178 pounds. Just the thing for your Voltswagon conversion! Just take a little welding to avoid pushing the struts through the shock towers….
Maybe hook a heavy-duty trailer to the Voltswagon (for the purpose of getting it home to run your PV system), and drive 3mph, avoiding stop signs and stop lights. You’ll probably also need a forklift and a concrete pad to build a little hutch around, off the garage.
I think i might go search YT for forklift battery videos: might be some good stories there…
Night time charging is convenient, but day time charging is also possible. Economics can decide on this one.
If solar powered parking lots would charge you less than night time charging then more people would charge during the day.
Thats right. We are in the solar/EV infancy.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/The-Next-Big-Thing-Solar-Freakin-Carports
=In 2013, the leading developers in the solar carport market were the familiar names of SunPower, SolarCity, and SunEdison.=
I watched SunPower take an 8% hit the market the other day on ‘weak guidance’. When that happened I pulled the trigger and went in. So far I’ve gotten a 9% return on my money as the stock rebounded a few days later. My First Solar is still sitting at about of 25% gain. I’m starting to build a pretty good renewable portfolio….
“It will be the second-largest solar carport in the Midwest, after a 1.1-megawatt facility at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio.”
Apparently, solar car ports are more ubiquitous in the Midwest than I realized.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/14/3471367/ford-solar-canopy-electric-vehicles/
EV’s need to step up their game:
http://insideevs.com/evs-the-first-million/
1 million sales by 2018 says the folks who keep an eye on such things.
And it’s been a few days since i watched this, but i think 2018 is also the supposed implementation of carbon fiber parts in a mass produced vehicle. This is another playlist; hope it brings the right video up; was having trouble with my playlist on another recent article:
http://youtu.be/ROaZEnUuN-w?list=PLC3AADF84C26038A3
Hi Andrew- Check it out. A BMW i3 frame assembly.
Wow – nice! I read that the i3 is the most fuel efficient car on the US market at something like 125 or 127 mpg equivalent. $40,000 is outside my price range (I was thinking of going for a used Volt here in a couple years). But it’s not too terribly expensive.
All that robotic stuff looks like something out of science fiction.
Depends on your needs. Used Leafs are getting inexpensive.
Other than the home, plug in cars will sit at work!!!! Let’s not over complicate this, and always try to please the guy that won’t buy an ev until he can tow a boat that he doesn’t even own. 🙂
Look at this please! Workplace charging Works!!!
http://www.slideshare.net/greenmotioninc/what-u-need-2-no-36365347
Via Motors retrofits trucks and vans with electric motors a la Chevy Volt, where you drive the first 40 miles on electric, then the motor kicks in. They can pull boats: the electric motor supposedly has more torque than the CE motor.
http://www.viamotors.com/powertrain/
Unless tech changes, every battery in a developing country is a battery that can’t be use in an electric car. There isn’t enough Lithium to go around – all batteries will have to be recycled.
Electric roads would fix all that.
I think the concept is to use them in an EV first, and then use them on the grid.
http://evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=32325
McCracken apparently thinks all EVs are Tesla model S’s with the large (85 kWh) battery pack. He doesn’t seem to realize that the Leaf has 24-25 kWh, which is far more typical of today’s fleet. PHEVs have even less; the Volt has a 16 kWh battery, the Fusion Energi is 7.6 kWh if memory serves, and the CMAX Energi and Prius plug-in even smaller batteries.
I was watching a video on YT the other day and the fella suggested tracking down an old forklift battery (~ 30kWh)… [9:45 on video]
http://youtu.be/7TkZ6eLhlGo
I just did a search for forklift batteries. I came up with this page for a battery for a Caterpillar 25E: 3178 pounds. Just the thing for your Voltswagon conversion! Just take a little welding to avoid pushing the struts through the shock towers….
A little less DIY friendly then.
Maybe hook a heavy-duty trailer to the Voltswagon (for the purpose of getting it home to run your PV system), and drive 3mph, avoiding stop signs and stop lights. You’ll probably also need a forklift and a concrete pad to build a little hutch around, off the garage.
I think i might go search YT for forklift battery videos: might be some good stories there…