Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 127, Issue 16

2023-05-26 Thread Tim Economu via EV
It's not impossible, those are your words. Difficult, yes because of the unreliable non-Tesla network, and not just because you are forced to own a cell phone. Why do you think Ford just signed up for the Tesla charging system? t On 5/26/2023 1:01 PM, ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org wrote: It's

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 127, Issue 15

2023-05-25 Thread Tim Economu via EV
But that is the beauty of the Tesla charging model. You can look at the supercharger map AND the Plugshare map, because in a Tesla, you use them both. And all the free and cheap level one and two stations as well. You are not doing this in any other non-Tesla car. So what that really means is

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 127, Issue 14

2023-05-25 Thread Tim Economu via EV
It is nice to have the variety. It will even be nicer when the car makers get together with some companies that can provide charging solutions, like the auto companies did with big oil early on. Right now the non-Telsa public charging infrastructure in the US is in early days, and is not a

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 127, Issue 14

2023-05-25 Thread Tim Economu via EV
:01 PM, ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org wrote: Tim Economu via EV wrote: Once you road trip in a Tesla, you won't ever consider another brand, at least until the US gets it charging in place (5+ years).. That's fine if you live in a big city or do lots of long-distance driving on the interstates. But I

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 127, Issue 13

2023-05-23 Thread Tim Economu via EV
Once you road trip in a Tesla, you won't ever consider another brand, at least until the US gets it charging in place (5+ years). Tesla superchargers are so fast, ubiquitous and quick, and the others are of questionable reliability, and not always where you need them. We are thinking of a

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 121, Issue 7

2022-11-12 Thread Tim Economu via EV
Peri, You might want to call Matt at Matts Import Haven, Clinton, Wa., tell him I sent you. Matt (with a little help from me) has been reconditioning hybrid car battery packs, and he is talking about getting into BEV packs also. With a firm order, he might be convinced. Tim Economu t On

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 112, Issue 10

2022-02-08 Thread Tim Economu via EV
"I don't see how the FTC hasn't called Tesla on FSD. It smells to me like false advertising." Right... so you said maybe a million times now. Don't worry it probably is working on that. Part of the problem we have here is the confusion between the difference of Autopilot and FSD. While they

Re: [EVDL] V2H

2021-10-04 Thread Tim Economu via EV
ral areas probably have more outages but then they are left likely to buy an EV for any reason.     On Sunday, October 3, 2021, 9:29:58 PM CDT, Tim Economu via EV mailto:ev@lists.evdl.org>> wrote:  " I said that. Lost power for three days back in the 90's when a torn

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 108, Issue 3

2021-10-03 Thread Tim Economu via EV
" I said that. Lost power for three days back in the 90's when a tornado blew through. Not worth investing a lot of money for 3 days every 25 years." That seems like a quaint world view to me. "I don't need it so no one else does either" . We have lived in rural America for the past 40 years

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 106, Issue 13

2021-08-16 Thread Tim Economu via EV
Not sure why hydrogen is being seriously discussed. Plug Power has one advocate on the list! Fool cells have been around now (including Plug's) for many decades, and how many cars have the technology? Better yet, how many refueling stations do we have in Washington State? Zero? Yep still zero

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 106, Issue 2

2021-08-02 Thread Tim Economu via EV
"From: "(-Phil-)" To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Why not an open source EV? The project is working now, we have more orders than we can fill right now! https://maxwellvehicles.com/ " I love the product Phil, even taken a test ride with Jay Donnoway on Bainbridge

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 104, Issue 4

2021-06-05 Thread Tim Economu via EV
Back in the day, you could fly into Sacramento airport and rent an EV1 for a week. It was pretty cool to show up at UC Davis in a production battery electric. And the EV1 was quick. We would offer to drag race (off road of course) faculty and surprise the hell out of them in the results! Davis