[ExI] idear, final chapter maybe

[spike at rainier66.com]

I had spoken to the first customer a few days ago.  Went by there four times
today, which is peak road trip day after our national holiday.

 

There I saw the second customer, so I stopped to chat.  Turns out he was a
local, from whom I learned much about non-Musk EVs.

 

This place sells power at 34 cents if you go with slow charge, 49 cents if
you go fast charge.  The local guy who I recognized by face was
fast-charging.

 

OK then, perhaps there are some non-Musk hipsters who can educate me please.

 



 

If one has a non-Musk, as I understand it a prole must install a special
charging circuit.  But what if you don't?  Is there any way to charge with
just normal house circuitry?

 

If so, and it can get even 10% charge per day, this station enables
non-Muskers whose driving is mostly local.  One could do normal
non-long-roadtrip driving, where one could plug into a home charging system
in the evening, pick up a few percent charge, drive around, gradually use up
the charge even while charging at home every evening.  Then coupla weeks of
that, whir on over to the fast charger and slam some electrons in there.

 

Non-Muskers, can that be done?

 

Here's my insight: EVs are well suited to local driving, which is most of
what I do.  But I occasionally go on long road trips.  Others in that
situation might consider one EV and one IC.  But that replicates insurance
costs and such.  

 

An EV would be better suited for road trips if it could double as a hotel.
Really it would just need to be an overnighter for one.  It would need a
bed.  But consider the urban stealth campers we have seen for years:
everything in there is based on combustion.  One cannot buy a
combustion-based heater for a van from the factory: they won't take the
liability for that.  But in an EV, everything you need, specifically heating
and ventilating, can be done with electricity.  Electric resistance heating
is expensive, but the device itself is very cheap, simple and safe.  One
could even have very rudimentary resistance cooking if one insists.

 

So. I anticipate a product I haven't seen: an electric minivan, set up for
cross-country road trips.  It needs a bed, a hot plate, electric heating and
maybe AC, a toilet, running water, hot and cold.  There might already be
electric vans that I don't know about.  But if such a thing is to be, it is
best to be non-Musk, because their charging stations are never filled.

 

spike

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