Fancy Buying Jay Leno’s Tesla Model S? | 04 July 2021

Show #1133.

 

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- In Norway, 13,184 new electric cars were registered in June. The share of electric cars in new passenger car registrations was 64.6 per cent last month. Norway’s most successful model across all drive types in June was the Tesla Model 3 with 3,196 new registrations.

 

- The first half of the year, a total of 48,059 new electric cars were put on the road, which corresponds to a market share of 57.3 per cent, according to a statement by the Norwegian Road Information Agency (OFV). In the same period last year, a total of 28,503 purely electric passenger cars were newly registered – a share of 48.1 per cent.

 

- 81.7 per cent of all new passenger cars in Norway from January to June had an external charging connection

 

- The stock of pure e-cars in Norway is approaching the 400,000 mark and reaches a share of 13.56 per cent. If plug-in hybrids are included, the stock of plug-in cars in Norway now stands at 544,106 and a share of more than 19 per cent.

 

Original Source : https://www.electrive.com/2021/07/04/norway-marks-13184-evs-sold-during-june/

 

 

China led global new-energy vehicle (NEV) sales in the first five months of this year with a 47 percent market share, ahead of Europe and North America, a new analysis from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed on Sunday. China was overtaken by Europe last year as the latter's NEV industry boomed, surging to 44 percent of the total market and beating China's 41 percent

 

- for the full year of 2021, China's global share is estimated to remain above 45 percent

 

- The estimate is based on the premise that China's NEV sales could reach 2.4 million units this year, which the CPCA forecast earlier.

 

- In the segment of pure battery electric vehicles, China probably held a 57 percent global share so far this year, much higher than Europe's 27 percent and North America's 15 percent

 

Original Source : https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1227762.shtml

 

 

- Even though crossovers and SUVs (electric or otherwise) are going up in popularity around the world, to the detriment of traditional body styles such as the sedan or hatch, it looks like the new BMW i4 is proving more popular than the iX SUV.  According to i4Talk.com, the i4 had already racked up some 2,095 reservations in the United States earlier this week, while the iX had not even reached 1,000 orders (952, according to the source).

 

- One factor that will boost the i4’s popularity has to be its lower price compared to the iX, which was designed specifically as an electric vehicle. The iX starts at $83,200 in America, but you can easily exceed $100,000, if you opt for the more powerful variant and add some options. In Europe, specifically in Germany, the iX kicks off at €77,300, but if you want the more powerful variant, that starts at just under €100,000 and once you start adding options, it quickly goes north.

 

Original Source : https://insideevs.com/news/518009/bmw-i4-ix-orders-unitedstates/

 

 
Original Source : https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/07/20210703-ix.html

 

Original Source : https://www.motor1.com/news/518129/vw-id-family-ota-updates/

 

 

Original Source : https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/big-300m-battery-to-be-built-without-government-aid-in-market-first-20210705-p586z6.html

 

 

Original Source : https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a36904191/jeep-wrangler-4xe-ev-mode/

 

 

Original Source : https://www.hotcars.com/jay-lenos-tesla-model-s-p90d-on-bringatrailer/

 

 

 

 

For many I see it’s down to use cases, but I see most favouring solar, and we’ve had both (still have solar, had the battery removed…long story).

 

The main factor for many maybe that’s it’s rare to impossible to get ‘free’ energy when you’ve just got batteries.  Yes negative or really cheap happens if you have the right tariff, occasionally, but with solar, large chunks of a day are free on a regular basis and even on a gloomy day, you can still produce enough to cover a house ‘on standby’.  Match that with 4 hours of cheap electricity overnight as standard on our tariff (5p/kWh), when our PHEV and EV can be charged if it hadn’t been sunny, washing and dishwasher timed to go on, etc, and batteries become an expensive piece of ECO Bling.

 

Add in smart home charging tech, like a Zappi, and why have an extra smaller battery put in when you have a larger one sat on the drive?  And that’s before vehicle-to-grid solutions.

 

If I had to choose between storage and solar energy production, I would have to pick production, though I can see that if someone lived in an area with highly variable power pricing and the grid was fairly green, storage might be preferable. In my case, here in Texas, our grid is much more carbon intensive than it is in England, despite all our wind power, and my price per kWh does not vary with time of day. Which is why I have 17 kW of community and 8 kW of  rooftop solar, which produces about 36,000 kWh a year and more than offsets the 46,000 miles of EV driving my wife and I do a year.

 

I have solar on the roof at home and at work… I have 100 % net metering and 2 electric cars… We drive totally on the power of the sun with no bill for electric… With the net metering the grid is my battery. So I am not shuffling power having only a battery.  I am net Zero with the solar.  I would hands down vote for the solar

 

I choose solar panels, that way I can know that I'm passively adding more clean energy to the grid. And I imagine that solar AC is a big plus. More sunlight, more energy for the AC.

 

I have 15.6kW solar panels since last autumn. And I have no stationary battery. But I have two big batteries, one in the Tesla and one in the Peugeot 208. And the solarmanager, www.solarmanager.ch, a tiny, very reasonably priced computer, loading only when there is sun. Or low tariffs. I'd clearly go for solar instead of battery

 

i believe rooftop solar and home batteries are both important.  however, if one had to chose one because of cost, i would recommend rooftop solar first.  this will contribute clean electricity to the grid, which is our top priority.  battery storage is also useful, but in homes these are usually only used during power outages.   you talk about how the UK power never goes down.    this reliability also relates to country.  the US has more hurricane hits than any country, and my state of Texas is in the top five of US states that are hit.  so the point is:  battery back up for black outs ARE useful in many parts of the world.

 

And i disagree on one point:  you stated that if you are producing more electricity during the day than you need, that excess is "wasted." not at all:  that is clean electricity that goes onto the grid--great for the  climate crisis.

 

I have solar and I use it to charge my 75kwh Tesla so if it would only let me get the Lecky back out of it I wouldn't need another battery. Come on Elon sort it out #V2G

 

Without a doubt I would install solar over batteries in almost any situation. The one exception I can think of is if I lived in an area with inconsistent power Like a mountainous region where powerlines can be dropped for an extended period of time then the battery solution would accomplish not only peak rate shaving but a peace of mind.

 

I purchased a 4.5kW solar solution in October 2012 and have now generated just over 50 MW of energy with greatly reduced energy bills. The system has no more than paid for itself.

 

Environmentally speaking, solar is the way to go.  Batteries for homes can never really scale to the costs without significant improvement.  Even if your solar is going back into the grid, that is clean energy your providing for your neighborhood that might not have solar (yet..).  Now I do love the idea of at some point in the future all of our cars being two directional so that if there was a need in the power grid or a power outage electric cars could provide a much needed boost to the grid

 

Depends on your interconnection rules. Here in New Jersey, US, we don’t have time-of-use rates and we get a 1:1 net metering benefit. Battery would not make financial sense unless you are looking for backup power during outages (we rarely lose power).  So it is solar panels for me. The grid is my big battery 😜

 

Solar all day!  Once the utilities allow bidirectional EV use, you won’t need separate battery storage.  Why buy a 13.5 kWh battery when your Arab has a 75kWh battery.

 

I know you have already decided to go with solar first, but IMHO this is a no-brainer... if I could afford only 1, I would  go for storage first. I see storage as the hub which connects all the elements of a home set up which includes car, storage, solar and/or wind, heatpump etc etc. So I would see storage as step 1 on a journey which would later include solar and/or wind. To me it seems illogical to start with anything else.

 

In terms of which has most eco benefit - well, living in Yorkshire, I doubt I could get a solar setup that would consistently give me enough power to take away my reliance on dirty power at peak times, whereas with storage I could charge up with green electricity during the clean times and eliminate my reliance on dirty power. If I lived in Australia or New Mexico, it might be a different story.

 

 

 

If you had to buy one electric car today and it was the only car you were allowed to drive for the next three years, what would you choose? And why. I'll go first. VW ID.4 GTX

 

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