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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Even with good public transit I'd have to sell my house and move to get a job and travel with public transit. I feel like that's a bit excessive if I had to get another one and move more. My commutes 250 miles a week and I was using a tank of gas a week. Went electric and I use 20-30kW to charge per day. 16k miles in on my first year. Hopefully one day I'll get solar installed and reduce even more too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Solar is pretty damn sweet. My only gripe is that I installed my system before getting an EV, so during a couple winter months I sometimes have to use electricity from the grid. Not a lot, but just enough to make me mad that I'm not 100% self sufficient. Had I gotten an EV before installing solar, I could have gotten a bigger system.

My power company has some rules that say I can't do net metering with them if I install a system that was greater than 100% of my average annual usage or some BS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ouch that sucks. I don't want a roof install though that seems the most common. I got a half acre open land with farm land east and west with no trees so I figured I could do a decent size system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That's awesome. There's a guy I've met in a small town in Iowa that has a setup like that and he lets people use his Tesla charger since it doesn't cost him anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The thing with public transit vs EVs though is targeted towards governments and corporations, not necessarily to individuals