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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>OK then, perhaps there are some non-Musk hipsters who can educate me please.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=422 height=217 style='width:4.3958in;height:2.2604in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DC60A2.A8A02BF0"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Non-Muskers, can that be done?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>