Oh yeah. Sounds like you’d be a good candidate for it.

My wife charges for free at work, so we kinda considered it too (charge at work, and backfeed to the house when she gets home). It’s a bummer they’re so damn expensive.

One thing you’ll wanna keep in mind is that if you’re only producing an extra 2kw and you’re charging at 7kw (L2), you’re gonna be pulling 5kw from the power company. So you’ll probably want a charger that you can limit to 2~3kw…. We do that by only using the 1.5kw charger that came with the car and plug it in to the 110v outlet.

1st Gen ioniq EV. It’s been an amazing little car.

Well, you by your electricity in United of kilowatt-hours (KWh). 1000w for 1hr is a KWh. In order to compare it to gas costs, you need is miles/kWh. (I’m assuming you’re in the US where you don’t calculate gas as Liters/100km).

The simplest thing you can do is take the range of the car, and divide by the size of the battery… (the EPA range you see here in the US is a good place to start)

So. We have a 1st Gen ioniq, which has a 38.5KWh battery, and it gets 170 miles per charge. So the math goes:

170 / 38.5 = 4.4 miles/kWh. (Which is really good)

(In reality, commuting at lower speeds we usually average 190miles/charge.)

Anyways, now that you have your miles/kWh, you go to your power bill and look at how much you’re paying per kWh. And how much gas costs.

So in our case we pay about $0.28/kWh and gas is $5.00/gallon.

So then you do ($gas) / ($kWh):

$5.00 / $0.28 = 17.8 you can buy 17.8kwh for the same as a gallon)

Next you multiply the kWh you can buy with the miles/kWh.

17.8 x 4.4 = 79 mpg based on epa mileage. And local electricity and gas costs.

If I were you, unless you’re using that truck for local work I’d probably look at replacing that sienna with a smaller EV first. Electric trucks still have a ways to go, and the efficiency leaves a lot to be desired. They claim MPGe is 70mpg but depending on your rates it could be closer to like 35mpg.

We have an ev, but I also still have my 92 1/2 ton truck I use for just truck things. It’s dirt cheap to keep running, but most of our miles are on the smaller electric car which gets a real world equivalent of 100mpg (give or take depending on where you live, cost of gas, cost of electricity.)

On our smaller ev we save around $10k~$15k over the next 100k miles by going electric.

I’m personally really looking forward to what the next generation of trucks will bring in terms of efficiency (aerodynamic focus) which will also help with range.

When do we get those here in the US?

r/boneappletea, i think you mean “End of an era”

Yeah. At one point it becomes near impossible to continue climbing, and the only way left is down. Even if his power numbers were consistent, other teams and riders would actively work against him in the final sprints. To where it was no longer a contest of strength but rather Sagan vs the rest of the entire field. When you become a marked rider like that, it’s fuckin tough to continue climbing. He also made a fuckton of money along the way, so retiring probably ain’t a bad idea at all.

I used to race at a domestic pro level, and I can simply say that strength is only a small component to winning. The rest is “strategy” or math. Imo cycling has just become too predictable. The only fun part to watch is the last 5 min. I don’t endorse drugs, but I will say that watching Armstrong back in the day was just wild.

As for Sagan, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he comes back outa retirement in 5 years or so. By then a lot of people he races with now will have moved on, and they’ll forget who he was and he could have a Cav style comeback.

Who are you? Tesla?

Oh yeah. I saw that too. That was such a weird read. I even struggle with understanding how people oppose the idea of renewables as well… I have a former buddy who is super opposed to solar, and insists that paying his electricity provider whatever the rates are is the morally correct thing to do.

Pulling a plow across fields somewhere in Ukraine.