Fully electric home, Crazy or Brilliant?

[Mach1E]

Haha no brother, in Miami you only have to evacuate if you live near the water, which I don’t. No evacuating in my near future

Correction- you’re only “forced” to evacuate if you live near the water.

I take it you didn’t live there in 1992?

All EV has its risks. It isn’t good in case of emergency.

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[Ma9573]

Polestar 2 for me and Mach E GT for my wife. Street parking and all public charging. It's easy to just plug into level 2 when working or shopping or eating and constantly keep the battery % between 40-80%. Free Electrify America with the Polestar so will top up with DC during a heavy driving day. Obviously need to be in an area with robust charging network though.

As for road trips, it did probably add about an hour on our 1200 mile round trip journey each way, but we just ate during the stops instead of grabbing food and eating in the car. Better for me as the driver anyway lol

 

[Bigfeets]

I decided to keep my MME order until it's delivered (5-10 months from now) but opted for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 LTd AWD NOW. So, I'll have many months to get the spouse to give up her Honda CRV for a second BEV.
Because the Ioniq 5 comes with two years of free charging and a fast charge capability, I postponed the 50 amp home charging circuit installation and cost. (Ioniq requires a 3rd party EVSE for this, but Ford's MME EVSE comes with 32 amp capability.)

 

[woody]

Everything electric:
2017 Volt (trade in for MME)
2019 Bolt
2021 MME
Heat pump heat/air conditioner (Mitsubishi). Works great (most HVAC guys here told me it is impossible)
Heat pump water heater
10.695 solar array (charge cars directly with solar as often as possible, daytime, rotate car usage)
battery back up
critical load panel (back up)
stove/oven, clothes dryer, etc.
NO GAS line
zero fossil fuels for energy ( I produce more electricity than I use)
fighting COGU (Coal Oil Gas and Utilities) has been quite a challenge, hopefully the war will be won by us sooner than later

should you be able to find a competent, certified SOLAR man, have him set your system up to charge directly from your solar array. This is what we do - most of the time one of our EVs is plugged into 120 in the sunshine.
(next EV will be bidirectional. Additionally, will add more battery capacity in house)

"NUTS", he said.
Still crazy after all these years.

In the Milky Way Galaxy there exists a small star, sometimes referred to as The Sun. Orbiting it is a (third) rock which appears to be inhabited by some carbon-based organisms. The main heat engine/energy source for the planet is the Sun. It provides more energy than any and all of the organisms on the planet could ever reasonably or unreasonably use (at least for the next 1 billion years or so).

Fight the SOBs.
Make it work.
Win the war!
Save the planet.
We will be dead, but Life goes on.
And we will have had fun.
And all that rot.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Everything electric:
2017 Volt (trade in for MME)
2019 Bolt
2021 MME
Heat pump heat/air conditioner (Mitsubishi). Works great (most HVAC guys here told me it is impossible)
Heat pump water heater
10.695 solar array (charge cars directly with solar as often as possible, daytime, rotate car usage)
battery back up
critical load panel (back up)
stove/oven, clothes dryer, etc.
NO GAS line
zero fossil fuels for energy ( I produce more electricity than I use)
fighting COGU (Coal Oil Gas and Utilities) has been quite a challenge, hopefully the war will be won by us sooner than later

should you be able to find a competent, certified SOLAR man, have him set your system up to charge directly from your solar array. This is what we do - most of the time one of our EVs is plugged into 120 in the sunshine.
(next EV will be bidirectional. Additionally, will add more battery capacity in house)

"NUTS", he said.
Still crazy after all these years.

In the Milky Way Galaxy there exists a small star, sometimes referred to as The Sun. Orbiting it is a (third) rock which appears to be inhabited by some carbon-based organisms. The main heat engine/energy source for the planet is the Sun. It provides more energy than any and all of the organisms on the planet could ever reasonably or unreasonably use (at least for the next 1 billion years or so).

Fight the SOBs.
Make it work.
Win the war!
Save the planet.
We will be dead, but Life goes on.
And we will have had fun.
And all that rot.

We're moving in that direction.

Took us some time to save up, but we have 9kW of panels (will add more in future years).
We have 20kWh of battery backup (will double capacity in future years).
We produce more than we use, but unfortunately we still pull from the grid at night and with a large load.
We also have gas heat (was hoping it would fail in the 14 years we've had the house, but it's still working); will replace with a heat pump sooner rather than later.
Our vehicle(s) will be charged during the day when we're producing excess power.

 

[Superfly-Vic]

Yea I wish I could do solar.. I live in a townhouse so I have very little roof available to me, so it might be tough.. and my garage is small so a battery backup might not fit as well.:.

 

[Jimrpa]

My Mustang Mach E is my only car (I’m single so I only need one car). 48A level 2 charger in my garage and an EA charger 3 miles away.
That said, I think everyone has to carefully consider their own unique situations. There was a very sad story on here recently of a person who had car troubles at what might be the worst time possible.

 

[Superfly-Vic]

For sure, when I got the first Stang I knew my wife would be using that car… so we bought a level 2 from Costco and installed it in the garage. Then when the second Stang came in, i knew that it was always going to be parked outside so we debated if we would need a second charger.. In the end I decided that having a second charger was worth having so I wouldnt have to cordinate with her in charging schedules. then I decided not to buy another charger an jus used the Ford mobile charger installed on a 240 plug.. one cool thing about the Ford charger is that the cable is thin so it is easy to wrap up and hang begin my hedges.

 

[skiingj]

If you live in Cali going all electric in the 'home' is very beneficial. There are generous EV rebates in CA. I live in a city that has great electric rates with our own utility so no PG&E crap. The city has rebates for EV chargers, most electric appliances and non gas HVAC units. The city is pushing all electric homes to reduce any reliance on PG&E. PG&E is looking to raise rates nearly 20% this year. They are a hot mess.

 

[Logal727]

When my Lightning arrives (hopefully summer), we get rid of the 2003 Tacoma and the 2016 Leaf. We will have nothing in our house that runs on gasoline and the Lightning will pull our travel trailer.

Have you figured out a plan for how you’re going to charge the Lightning while pulling a trailer? I’ve seen very few stations that can accommodate a trailer, just wondering what the solution is

 

[jrstinkfish]

Correction- you’re only “forced” to evacuate if you live near the water.

I take it you didn’t live there in 1992?

All EV has its risks. It isn’t good in case of emergency.

https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...rror-and-why-i-still-need-a-second-car.14791/

We had a days-long power outage here in Memphis a couple of weeks ago, and I made sure to fully charge my Mach-E before the winter storm hit in case we needed a heating area. Somehow we were spared the loss of power, unlike the majority of our neighbors, but it was nice to know the EV was out there, ready to provide quiet, steady heat if we needed it (not sure how long a gas-powered car would run in the same situation).

Anyway, we too are a fully-EV home as of last Friday. My wife bought a Niro EV. She was mostly worried about having an ICE vehicle for road trips, but since we usually rent a car for those, she really had nothing else to object to but the higher price tag of an EV. Getting an insane trade-in value for her Kona fixed that one

She also just started a new job on Monday whose round-trip is 3x that of her old job (her old job was 5 mins away, but still ...) so I'm sure she will appreciate the gas savings as well.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Have you figured out a plan for how you’re going to charge the Lightning while pulling a trailer? I’ve seen very few stations that can accommodate a trailer, just wondering what the solution is

This has caused my partner some stress. I have no problem adding a couple of minutes to each end of the charging process by dropping the trailer if necessary.

 

[Chuck]

I would say that it's pretty aggressive and above average risk than is warranted in today's world. Right now if there's an emergency that is a matter of life and death and you need to get to a location beyond your current range then you'll have grave regrets.

As a senior manager in IT I often spend enormous amounts of money to avoid risk. It's built into my nature to protect the enterprise. I do the same with my family. Risk avoidance is something I can't ignore and having only electric vehicles is too great a risk in the current state of the technology. I've seen too much and can't unsee it.

 

[Logal727]

This has caused my partner some stress. I have no problem adding a couple of minutes to each end of the charging process by dropping the trailer if necessary.

Yeah definitely depends on how hard it is to
unhook the trailer

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Yeah definitely depends on how hard it is to
unhook the trailer

Oh, definitely, and whether there's really any place to do that.

In a walmart parking lot? Probably plenty of space. In a dinky shop parking lot, maybe not.


For my trailers, it's super easy to unhook or reconnect; takes less than five minutes. And that's without all the extra support from cameras, etc.

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