So, where is the electricity to charge these wondrous new batteries going to come from?
“where is the electricity to charge these wondrous new batteries going to come from?”
Mine comes from my roof I could charge enough kWh on a typical sunny Texas day for a small fleet of cars. My panels made 55 kWh today net. A model 3 tesla in city traffic uses 180wh to go a mile with the A.C. Blasting or less I have personally seen 130wh in bumper to bumper Houston grid lock. I rent model S or 3 fairly often as they are the cheapest fullsized sedans from hertz Corp rates. Too bad they are selling them off for people who are competent enough to know how to use an EV they are great for city cars. Using the higher 180wh/mi that’s 306miles of distance in a single day. No one drives 300 miles per day commute. The average is 40 miles round trip. So my panels could have “fueled” no less than 7 tesla model 3 EVs each with a 40 mile per day commute.
It was 11hr and 23min of daylight today and 94F in the shade.Every day from now till Dec 21st is longer than today was.