Reads like a monologue straight from a Chevy ad where the narrator is slowly freezing to death in his EV while trying to get home, as a blizzard has disabled the grid with every charger along his way.
Curious, what does a 5 gallon jerry of "more stockpilable and shelf-tested productive energy capacity" look like, and where in your EV do you reckon would you put it for your emergency trip that requires more than your capacity can provide?
Mad max with EVs is a good pitch for Netflix, tho
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I can put up solar panels. Good luck running your own oil well and refinery.
that jerry can of gas won't move a car after 2 or 3 years sitting on a shelf. a stack of batteries and solar panels and wind turbines will still be able to produce electricity to drive an EV for probably 10-20 years.
that's the use-case i'm talking about. obviously I totally agree that you can't take "A jerry can of electricity" in your trunk in an EV. ...but its already pretty chock-full of batteries to nearly its volume limit. and there is similarly a physical volume limit for how much gasoline you can throw in a trunk.
But I digress - I was never talking about single-trip backup fuel, I'm talking about long-term sustainable fuel you can **continue to** produce on a sovereign hunk of land with zero dependencies post-stockpiling.
your points aren't invalid on their own, they're just tangential to my question.
There’s a company near Amsterdam, New Electric, who convert old cars to electric. I’d like to get an old GClass Mercedes to convert to electric. One day maybe, maybe I’ll be too late.
Put up as many as you want - you are not driving further than half of your factory capacity allows. And it will deteriorate in time. As much as I can't refine oil at home, you cannot make replacements for your EV infra. Solar or diesel/oil stockpile, 5-10 years max I'd say.
What would work long term are horses. Nobody can maintain cars if industry and modern manufacturing is no more.
EVs are great toys for the hood, but if shit hits the fan you are not overloading it with your family and stuff, and escaping anywhere.
My veggie oil stockpile will easily last 10+ years.
Neither of us will be able to keep our vehicles running long term without necessary spares.
Horses is what you need.
Exactly though. In a long term shelter in place, why run away from my stockpile?, I have half range of my EV for 30 years of output from my solar panels.
Note that 30 years is the guaranteed time for 90% of brand new output from the panels, go look at Silfab's warranty. With care I have fridge and freezer and even some heat from that in addition to short range car trips.
i didn't realize you were talking about biodiesel
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