It was obvious why there were rolling blackouts during the heat wave we had in mid-August. There was a huge high pressure dome over the western states and demand in the other states took away from the normal amounts of power that California imports from other states. Much of the imported power comes from Palo
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This doesn’t seem to be good for Toyota FCEV, Honda FCX or Hyundai. Toyota has been making FCEVs for more than 2 decades. It would seem they would know what the realities were and are regarding FCEVs. The Honda FCX Concept in 1999 and FCX Clarity from 2008. The future of heavy vehicles, trains airplanes
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That thought has occurred to me. I watched a program about ‘food deserts’ on PBS. Locally grown foods have less impact on the environment. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/09/11/should-foods-environmental-damage-be-included-in-its-purchase-cost/
This doesn’t look good. GM just agreed to exchange $2 Billion of Nikola stock for services rendered in making the Badger (truck) EV. Hindenberg claims Nikola is a scam https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200910005912/en/Law-Offices-Frank-R.-Cruz-Announces-Investigation Nikola fights back. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2621WR
As of 2020-09-01. Has a link to California ARB. https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/california-fcev-sales-fceb-hydrogen-station-data-as-of-september-1-2020/
From my comments. From what I’ve seen, Nikola is really trying to get rolling with heavy trucks with hydrogen. That’s where Milton doesn’t have to compete with Tesla. The badger pickup with batteries is kind of a hard sell because it will be competing with Tesla, and that’s nearly an impossibility without some biggie like
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This graph is for thevwestern US, I think it said 80 million population. The Misoperations is explained in the text. I noticed that most of the problems seem to be with microprocessors. That must mean there are bugs in the systems. Maybe hardware? Or if the hardware is redundant, then probably software? https://www.wecc.org/epubs/StateOfTheInterconnection/Pages/Misoperations0706-4202.aspx
This is a long 1h 18min very informative YouTube video all about Nikola (NKLA) and a tour with its chairman, Trevor Milton. When you see their prototyping shop you will see that he’s serious and very passionate about his products. He’s very knowledgeable about his products; he’s a very hands-on person. Trevor said that they
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This chinese EV maker is selling the first thousand for $9,999 after federal tax credit. Skip to the 36 minute point. https://youtu.be/e-jG5emO_nA ****************************** Natural gas will have less and less use in electricity generation as renewables replace gas turbine plants. That doesn’t mean the demand for gas will drop until its use for heating and
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When there’s a huge solar energy spill, It’s called A NICE DAY. 👍👍😆😆 ****************************** This author thinks the upcoming Battery Day on Sep 22 will be a revelation of a revolution. Talks about nanowires and supercapacitors. One thing that crossed my mind is why haven’t the battery makers made the batteries like a stack of
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