Federal Funding to Help California Expand Electric Vehicle Charging Network

People here citing the $8 per gallon "equivalence" of supercharging are really clueless. What they're really pointing out, if you know math and physics, is that internal combustion engines are only 40% efficient and that we should really be charging more than that for gasoline to make up for all the downsides.

Same chorus of buffoonery and lies from social justice, green warriors. Talk about science denial! Seriously, petroleum products are a part of everyday modern life, multiplies of products, countless applications. Wind and solar to replace petroleum as a national or global energy policy is beyond stupid, beyond irrational and is truly pathological.
My advice to these folks, get over it, cuz a huge tidal wave of red is coming…and man, are they pissed!

Climate heretics dare to ask out loud if 900lbs battery accidents at 25,000 X damage of carbon dioxide matter.
Religious fanatics cry out for burning heretics at stake.. resulting in more damage to environment. Trot out comparisons of battery arrays measuring in tons to 30 lbs gas car battery and can't figure out there is a difference

The future is coming. Get on board, or stay mired in obsolescence.

https://www.wired.com/story/after-going-solar-i-felt-the-bliss-of-sudden-abundance/

https://www.wired.com/story/electric-vehicles-could-rescue-the-us-power-grid/

Isn't it comforting to know that we can rely on the same little group of small-minded contributors to promote anti-public health messaging, climate science denial, and opposition to a better future?

Santa Barbara elites are great. They'll tell you how their $100,000 Tesla (subsidized) gets free power at any Tesla supercharger that only takes 18 minutes. Or how they can paid an additional $2000 for unlimited supercharging. Like their housekeepers and gardeners can afford that.
Or they ignore that the charging cost per mile to supercharge are energy equavalent to $8.76 per gallon ("We have received a lot of questions about our calculation that using a Supercharger can cost the equivalent of $8.76 per gallon. That number is based on the EPA’s equivalency factor that an average gallon of gas contains 33.7 kWh of energy.")

"Owning a Tesla Model 3 (or any electric car) can substantially reduce fuel costs compared to a gas-powered car, but only when it's charged at home."
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35152087/tesla-model-3-charging-costs-per-mile/

Last time I looked, gas car batteries were not 900lbs... and if you paid attention I also referenced the battery fire up in Moss Landing because of all the storage you will need for solar and wind in order to charge cars in off hours.
Religious zealots rarely pay attention to details that run contrary to their belief systems

MAGA = horse drawn carriages, kerosene lamps and isolationism? Well I guess the Magas wouldn't go so far as the horse drawn carriage because that would hurt their beloved petrol companies. The same people that said coal was coming back.

Some clues for the carbon shills. A rapid trnsition to green energy would save us trillions of dollars:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62892013

General tree will there be affordable gas for her to put in that car. Not if all goes as planned. You may be able to afford this but a large group of us can not. So leave us the hell slingme drive your EV cars

So many here would live to get rid of electricity and go back to Kerosene lamps. Repuglicans fear progress, technology, science, and especially change.

Who is going to tell the struggling mother of two children who scrape together $1500 to buy a small gas car that she has and now purchase a very expensive vehicle in the state of California they can’t do it it’s so totally unfair to those who can’t do it to make it a mandatory thing by 2035 it’s absolutely ludicrous I’m sure like everything else they’ll try to substitute of those that can’t afford it but those that can barely afford it is still gonna have to pay for it it makes absolutely no sense

That battery fire should be a major concern to AGW concerned EV drivers.
Lithium battery fires emit flouride gases which are 25,000 X worse than carbon dioxide
"F-gases are often used as substitutes for ozone-depleting substances, because they do not damage the atmospheric ozone layer. However, F-gases are powerful greenhouse gases, with a global warming effect up to 25 000 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2)." (see link at bottom)

Toxic Flouride gas emissions from Lithium-ion Battery Fires
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5577247/#:~:text=The%20measured%20HF%20levels%2C%20verified,are%20presented%20as%20mg%2FWh.

Here is your Hazardous substance fact sheet on Lithium
https://nj.gov/health/eoh/rtkweb/documents/fs/1119.pdf

I'd rather be working around diesel fuel exhaust than around lithium burning and lithium battery packs are prone to fires when over charged or damaged.

The more of these battery storage facilities we build to store wind and solar, the more fires we will see belching a volcano of pollution that contributes god knows what to AGW... oh wait, here is a study
https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/fluorinated-greenhouse-gases_en#:~:text=F%2Dgases%20are%20often%20used,carbon%20dioxide%20(CO2).

A less hysterical take on the battery fire in Monterey County:

https://electrek.co/2022/09/20/tesla-megapack-caught-fire-giant-battery-project/

Highway 1 is still closed in the Moss Landing area, and it looks like the shelter in place order is still in effect. It’s not the first time a lithium battery Fire has caused problems in that area.

I'm all for saving the planet and everything, but too many people who think of themselves as "eco-warriors" or energy progressives seem to be just fine with filthy/dirty energy generated outside of the State of California. The Tesla fire going on right now up in Moss Landing is a good example of "you get what you wanted." I'm no expert, but my guess is that the air in the fire/burn area is not very healthy, and should be a warning to those who want to run head-first into so-called green energy....it's not very green (to say the least). A huge percentage of EV car owners rent gas-powered vehicles when they need to go more than a couple hundred miles. I wish I had a penny for every time I told someone whose mind I changed by pointing out that hybrids are the way to go IF you can afford one. BTW, fire departments h-a-t-e dealing with EV car fires all the time. Maybe we should revert to riding animals like the person who was dressed as a nun while riding a donkey in the last Fiesta Parade (better than digging up the Earth for a handful of "precious" minerals/metals).

Is this from the same people that never ever have the rest stops open?

https://poweroutage.us/
They are going to need it because we already can't keep the lights on.

There’s a big Tesla battery fire going on right now at a PGE energy storage facility in Moss Landing near the Bay Area. Highway 1 is shutdown for the next several hours there. Not your ordinary Tesla fire, but one of those really high capacity batteries used for major power storage.

California leads the way... in outsourcing its dirty work to Mexico, India, China. In keeping with that tradition, I expect California to financially encourage Mexico to build nuclear reactors along the Pacific and Gulf of California and to sell us the cheap power.