A Place for EV "Stupid"....

I read somewhere that house insurance companies are starting to exclude coverage of fires caused by EV being charged in the garage or driveway, as well as body corporates putting bans in place for EV charging in unit complexes.
Much like most insurance companies removed coverage of damage from "terrorist events" right after 911

My real point with this was how long before the non EV driving neighbour dobs him into the jackboots (choose your flavour) or like some farkwit copper or council worker comes along and books him for something. 

And then he'll be forced to buy an approved charger from Tesla and that will need 3 phase power and then servicing every 3-6 months by Tesla technician. Nothing stays cheap for long.

I recall when septic tanks were phased out in favour of water treatment systems. A septic tank was one of cost to buy/install, then periodical empty once every 2-3yrs for about $300. Water treatment systems cost as much as $10k to install then require regular inspection every 2-3 months at a cost of approx $200-300 per inspection. But the later is allegedly more "green".

Anyway, back to EV. They have been promoted as the holy grail and the answer to all our environmental "problems". However I feel these environmental "problems" are being talked up to scare the masses into spending money which makes the rich richer, and the rest of us more dependent. Fear is the greatest way to sell something.

At first glance EV sound like a great idea ie: "cheap to run" and "green" but they won't be cheap for long, and "green" is debateable considering the environmental costs to manufacture the cars and batteries and the on going environmental impact to charge them - it will be decades before sustainable energy will be able to provide all the power for EV but by then the batteries will be unserviceable and we may even run out of lithium before then anyway.

Joey... The link provided is interesting.. I have wondered how many tons, 10s of thousand tons, millions of tons of overburden and mineral bearing stock it takes to make a kilo of battery...

How many kilo is the average car battery pack ?? ??

This is a very interesting topic.
In general, support for EVs is divided upon political lines. Not economic ones and certainly not prepping ones.

Conservatives tend to be very in favour of national security, yet on this topic would prefer to remain at the whims of middle eastern despots and hoping China doesn't get mad enough at us to do anything meaningful that would stop us from being able to import oil, whilst continually poking them all the same. I wonder how much of this is to do with EVs being seen as 'green' and the 'enemy'.

The left seems to love EVs.

From a preppers perspective, it is a real contradiction that the ability to have an 'off grid' vehicle is criticised. Australia runs out of fuel within a month if imports stop. An EV goes for years, until either your ability to recharge it is lost, or something is needing unobtainable spares.

"An EV goes for years, until either your ability to recharge it is lost, or something is needing unobtainable spares."

When the grid goes down, you may think u can recharge your EV from your own solar system, but.....

Modern EV's need a internet connection, at least every so often, to update their software and upload the places you have driven to. Where does all this info go ? China would be a good bet.

So, when the net goes down, your EV will go down shortly afterwards as well.

Solution.

Build your own EV, there are lots of U tubes about it, mostly referring to USA, but our design rules are considerably more lenient than theirs are, so its actually easier to get a homemade EV on the road in Aus than in other parts of the world.

No internet needed, and you made it, so you can fix it.



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A quick search reveled these gems.

"Does a Tesla have to be connected to the internet?"

"Connectivity is an important part of all Tesla vehicles, further enhancing the driving experience by providing access to features that require data usage — including streaming music and media, live traffic visualization and more. All Tesla vehicles come with access to Standard Connectivity."

"When I first spoke with Tesla about the Model S, I was told that I would receive software updates over the air for free for 4 years.

"Tesla cars have prepaid cellular connections for mapping/navigation, voice recognition, bug reporting, software updates and entertainment (including streaming audio with different services depending on the region and a web browser). The car also provides telemetry data to Tesla to help it improve Autopilot and maps. A cellular connection is also necessary for the Tesla smartphone app to work (one can remotely unlock the car, sound the horn, control charging, control AC and find out where the car is)."

"A Tesla’s internet connection is used for two broad purposes:

Tesla’s purposes
Collect telemetry data on how the car performing, diagnostics and errors
Collect Autopilot data
Over-the-air software updates
Owner’s purposes
Mapping, nav and traffic info
Listening to streaming music
Web surfing (at least in theory)
Mobile app access
Charger info and supercharger status

If you ask, they will not collect the telemetry and autopilot data from your car. I do not know if they would turn off the ability to do OTA updates. All the owner purposes are really up to you on whether you use the features or not."

"The upgrade package downloads quite slowly - and you’re not really aware that it’s happening. Once the data is downloaded, it takes around 25 minutes to install - during which time you can’t drive or charge the car. But you can schedule that for some time in the future if it’s not convenient to do it immediately."




Big brother is definitely watching a Tesla.

That's all 'app' style functionality. Nothing to do with the car's ability to run.

If they have the facility to remotely stop the car or disable it if stolen, its only a short step to being able to stop it on demand from the Gobernment or another entity.

And just stop your PC or phone updates for a short while and put up with the insistence of the device to upgrade, and finally slow down and become unusable. Take that one step further to a motor vehicle.....With Apple devices I don't think you have a choice, it just happens.

Have designed my new gasifier, now to collect the bits to build it. "free" energy from trees to power IC engines, without needing Mr Shell or Mr Caltex.



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