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I can't begin to tell you how excited the thought that I can have my car mostly powered from solar panels on the garage roof makes me.

helloguillecl 5y ago
Yeah, like, it sounds too good to be true. People like to think you are incredulous for believing that it might be possible. Yet, it will be a reality that will change the world.
- StavrosK 5y ago
  I don't think it's that far-fetched, people are already installing solar panels (and have been for a while), it's just that now you'll have a much closer need. Hell, you'll probably even be able to use your car's battery as storage for your energy needs overnight, so you charge the car during the day and power your fridge/TV from it during the night (assuming you don't need to go somewhere in the morning). Pretty damn exciting.
- dzhiurgis 5y ago
  > Yet, it will be a reality that will change the world. Yeaaaah, I kinda think smartphones were bigger change than this. It's nice, but not a flying or self driving. Just different, cheaper source of energy. It does not enable anything new, other than charge.
  - helloguillecl 5y ago
    For you, who probably are energy rich already, and can afford as much fuel as he needs, like most of us in the developed-ish world. Think of someone in a village in Africa.
solresol 5y ago
It was fun for the first few days and then you get kind of used to it. But what never gets dull is laughing at people paying to fill their cars with liquid explosives.
- StavrosK 5y ago
  Sounds like you've never seen a battery explode! Anything energy-dense is an explosive.
jameshart 5y ago
The recent outbreak of ‘range anxiety’ among combustion-engine owners in the Southeast US when the colonial pipeline went offline illustrates very clearly how thin a myth of ‘independence’ has been built around gasoline cars. You can hit the open road and just keep driving - as long as a complex global energy distribution network keeps up just-in-time fulfillment of fuel to gas stations along the way. Whereas an electric car, powered with charge gathered from the sunlight that struck the roof of your own home? That’s truly independent.
theshrike79 5y ago
This is _exactly_ the niche the Ford F-150 Lightning is marketed towards. The "you can power your house from your car battery" was like custom made for Texans who still remember the power outages last winter. You can get a car, that you can charge at home, for free, AND you can also use it to run your house if the grid goes tits up again? Sold!

helloguillecl 5y ago

Yeah, like, it sounds too good to be true. People like to think you are incredulous for believing that it might be possible. Yet, it will be a reality that will change the world.

StavrosK 5y ago
I don't think it's that far-fetched, people are already installing solar panels (and have been for a while), it's just that now you'll have a much closer need. Hell, you'll probably even be able to use your car's battery as storage for your energy needs overnight, so you charge the car during the day and power your fridge/TV from it during the night (assuming you don't need to go somewhere in the morning). Pretty damn exciting.
dzhiurgis 5y ago
> Yet, it will be a reality that will change the world. Yeaaaah, I kinda think smartphones were bigger change than this. It's nice, but not a flying or self driving. Just different, cheaper source of energy. It does not enable anything new, other than charge.
- helloguillecl 5y ago
  For you, who probably are energy rich already, and can afford as much fuel as he needs, like most of us in the developed-ish world. Think of someone in a village in Africa.

solresol 5y ago

It was fun for the first few days and then you get kind of used to it. But what never gets dull is laughing at people paying to fill their cars with liquid explosives.

StavrosK 5y ago
Sounds like you've never seen a battery explode! Anything energy-dense is an explosive.

jameshart 5y ago

The recent outbreak of ‘range anxiety’ among combustion-engine owners in the Southeast US when the colonial pipeline went offline illustrates very clearly how thin a myth of ‘independence’ has been built around gasoline cars. You can hit the open road and just keep driving - as long as a complex global energy distribution network keeps up just-in-time fulfillment of fuel to gas stations along the way. Whereas an electric car, powered with charge gathered from the sunlight that struck the roof of your own home? That’s truly independent.

theshrike79 5y ago

This is _exactly_ the niche the Ford F-150 Lightning is marketed towards. The "you can power your house from your car battery" was like custom made for Texans who still remember the power outages last winter. You can get a car, that you can charge at home, for free, AND you can also use it to run your house if the grid goes tits up again? Sold!