I wonder if there’s a need for cars and their at-home chargers to be able to negotiate:
…and use that to optimally “schedule” the charging
Not that difficult.
Charge after such-and-such time. Just remember to plug it in. Yes, manually.
I’m lazy.
I don’t want to interrupt whatever the wife and I are binge-watching to go out to the garage and plug in the car. Most likely I’ll forget until “too late”. (If, hypothetically I did much driving on a daily basis.)
Any boring, tedious task that I can automate, I automate.
Well, I would hope that a highly electronic device would have a timer for starting it.
I have a pretty basic EV charger (Siemens brand), no app or anything. Even it has a button to delay charging 2/4/6/8 hours. You’re right there grabbing the charging thing, you just push the button 1-4 times to set the delay, it’s dead simple.
Yeah, if it’s not already a thing that you can plug it in as soon as you pull in the garage, but set when you want it to start charging, then it certainly should be.
My dishwasher and bread maker and coffee maker have all had this functionality for decades… asking for a car charger to have it seems pretty basic.
ETA: Oh, it looks like at least some chargers already do this… as they certainly should.
This. There’s a broad irony here:
The more we get screwed by climate change, the more we will want to stop it.
But the more screwed we are, the less we can stop it.
It’s a kind of a classic human foible imo.
California is facing record heat-waves. So now is not a good time. But they will also be facing record heat waves for the next 40 years. So never is a good time. Really, other states should be stepping up. But of course, those states don’t feel like there’s a problem, yet.
I’ve been meaning to check this math since I saw this.
The average EV uses 3.8 mWh a year and there 563,070 already on the road in California
At 17,000 gWh that implies fewer than 4.5 million EVs in California during 2030.
New car sales in CA average 2,000,000 a year and by 2026 at least 35% need to be EVs. With at least 700,000 new EVs in each of 2026, 27, 28, and 29, that’s 2.8 million sold just in those 4 years. Plus maybe 400,000 additional EVs per year from 23-25 makes an even 4 million, plus maybe 240,000 for 22 (average is 320,000 but I’m assuming 2022 will be low due to supply chain stuff) and the 563,000 already on the road… it seems to me like they are implicitly assuming that they are going to miss the 35% in 2026 deadline. Additionally the mandate says 68% in 2030 so that’s another 1,360,000 in 2030 which if they are sold evenly throughout the year means on average during 2030 680,000 of the cars that will be sold by year-end will be on the road.
So it’s fine to assume they’ll miss the deadlines, but perhaps a bit dishonest to not mention. Yeah, a few of those will get totaled or die, but most EVs are newer so probably not too many.
And we haven’t discussed plug-in hybrids. Those use electricity too.
“It doesn’t say you have to stop at one. That is your decision to stop at one. Why is more God not good?” Krishna asked at Monday’s school board meeting, according to KTRK. “And are you saying you don’t have like one square foot of space in our buildings?”
i would think this is the Republicans
That’s a really dumb law in the first place that was presumably passed to force a district’s hand. So it’s funny that someone is testing it this way, but I think the law should be tossed.
I wonder where the line is. Would they accept Spanish? Hebrew?
All I know is when certain people pass laws about God, they are not talking about to whom I pray
I don’t read Arabic, but I vaguely recall that “Allah” is the literal Arabic word for god, regardless of religion, which would make that an A level troll. Though maybe not quite as funny as “satanists” in Florida.
I thought it was one, rainbow/Arabic. The fact they won’t allow one with Rainbow colors, is even more absurd. As for the Arabic one, is he holding it upside down or is the US flag in distress?
Hmmm, if he’s not holding it upside-down then I could see using the upside-down flag as a reason to not accept / display the gift. It is supposed to be a distress signal and is considered disrespectful / inappropriate if used for anything other than signaling distress.
But I think the more likely explanation is that he’s accidentally holding the sign upside down.
I assume they’re worried about promoting a LGBT lifestyle.
I suspect that if presented with a picture that showed a rainbow and an ark and pairs of animals and “In God we trust”, that would be acceptable.
that’s the given. trying to defend their decision is much more difficult.
Plus your state has very different needs than a state that goes from 100 degrees to -10 in the same year.
Most people I know in CA don’t even have air conditioning. Your power use is comparatively astoundingly consistent and you’re just in a heat wave.
Where do they live? Thinking near the coast (within, say 5 miles), or up in the mountains.
Funny thing happened. The Power company called on my landline (which requires Spectrum, which required electricity) to tell me my power was out, and they’d call back with an estimate of when it will come back on. Oh, and if I want to know more, check the internet site.
That actually does happen up in the mountains, but most of California has really mild weather compared to the rest of the country. even when we get the occasional heat wave it’s normally a dry heat which is much more bearable than more humid places. It’s the main reason our real estate costs so much.