Fully electric home, Crazy or Brilliant?

[dtbaker61]

After my wife’s Stang arrived I am fully electric… am I crazy for doing this or is this the future? I will say my electricity went up by $40 a month charging both.. which is a savings since I was spending $400 in gas a month.. but I am yet to go on a road trip..

thoughts?

nice salt n peppa pair there!

I have no qualms being all-electric with the MME as my 'long range' vehicle. I have been using DIY conversion BEVs with 30-50 mile range around town since 2008, and using an ICE vehicle for long days and the occasional trips.... I got rid of my ICE as soon as I took delivery of the MME.

This pic is of my converted eMiata, the MME, and a converted Swift which I have since gifted to a local highschool for an PV/EV Sustainability class I'll be helping out with this semester.

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[Superfly-Vic]

nice salt n peppa pair there!

I have no qualms being all-electric with the MME as my 'long range' vehicle. I have been using DIY conversion BEVs with 30-50 mile range around town since 2008, and using an ICE vehicle for long days and the occasional trips.... I got rid of my ICE as soon as I took delivery of the MME.

This pic is of my converted eMiata, the MME, and a converted Swift which I have since gifted to a local highschool for an PV/EV Sustainability class I'll be helping out with this semester.

I love the idea of a conversion for my daughters first car.. what setup did you use to covert the car?

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

A year ago I decided I was too old to enjoy shoveling snow so decided to get a snowblower. Went for an electric one (I hate dealing with small gasoline engines).

This is the second time I've used it, so I'm still learning how. I'm pretty happy with its performance, especially considering the batteries are stored in the cold garage.

 

[dtbaker61]

I love the idea of a conversion for my daughters first car.. what setup did you use to covert the car?

The eMiata has a Warp9 DC motor, Zilla 1k controller, (48)x100ah CALB LiFePO4 batteries.
The whole build process is at envirokarma.org if you want to learn more ...

 

[Logal727]

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.

The gov money for charging specifically mentions adapting for this condition, so will be cool to see what happens. Obviously we just need charging stations set up just like gas stations

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

The gov money for charging specifically mentions adapting for this condition, so will be cool to see what happens. Obviously we just need charging stations set up just like gas stations

That would be great. I wish I had a few hundred million dollars (or several billion, whatever) to invest in a solution that could compete with EA, but set it up like Love's or Flying J.

 

[Superfly-Vic]

The eMiata has a Warp9 DC motor, Zilla 1k controller, (48)x100ah CALB LiFePO4 batteries.
The whole build process is at envirokarma.org if you want to learn more ...

I checked out the website… Pretty cool to see it done. I hope to use the ford eluminator crate setup to one day make a restomod

 

[ChasingCoral]

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

I’ve found some stations that will work better than others. In some cases we’ll probably just block part of the driving lane.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

I’ve found some stations that will work better than others. In some cases we’ll probably just block part of the driving lane.

Honestly, that's not much different from what many ICE-towed trailers do in the many places I've towed around the country...

 

[zhackwyatt]

After my wife’s Stang arrived I am fully electric… am I crazy for doing this or is this the future? I will say my electricity went up by $40 a month charging both.. which is a savings since I was spending $400 in gas a month.. but I am yet to go on a road trip..

thoughts?

I only have the Mach-E, two cars don't make sense for just me. But I still have concerns about the single point of failure: the power grid. One bad cyber attack or disaster and not only is my home out of power but now it would be much harder to flee or get to safety if needed.

 

[Superfly-Vic]

I only have the Mach-E, two cars don't make sense for just me. But I still have concerns about the single point of failure: the power grid. One bad cyber attack or disaster and not only is my home out of power but now it would be much harder to flee or get to safety if needed.

I counter that by saying how many times did I have to worry about getting gas before a hurricane and seeing the crazy lines to get it.. all we have to do now is plug in before the storm and you can be made sure to have over 200 miles of range

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

I counter that by saying how many times did I have to worry about getting gas before a hurricane and seeing the crazy lines to get it.. all we have to do now is plug in before the storm and you can be made sure to have over 200 miles of range

And often the places for charging are not the same places for gasoline, so at least for now, an evacuation means far fewer people in those lines.

 

[woody]

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.

DOOMSDAY:
Should you think it is around the corner, no sense in investing in the a future(ie., EVs, solar etc.), if you are certain it (a future) will not be realized. No sense in hoping for the best.
Where will you purchase the petrol. to escape with all of the competition for the last drop? Shoot all the bastards, but where to go?
Risk is a part of who we are. Intelligent risk is who we become when we succeed. Failure leads to success, even in today's world.
Perhaps optimism is a bad thing, but fatalism is just what it is.
It must be a bad thing to try and make things better.
Evil may always exist. Beowulf.
I am not giving up. Hope springs eternal. We have the capacity to succeed again.

 

[yngwenli]

I only have the Mach-E, two cars don't make sense for just me. But I still have concerns about the single point of failure: the power grid. One bad cyber attack or disaster and not only is my home out of power but now it would be much harder to flee or get to safety if needed.

If you have solar/energy storage, you can still have power during a grid collapse. Maybe it's slower, but I can L1 charge or even L2 charge (if sun is shining and you being in AZ, it's almost always shining).

As others have mentioned, a massive disaster also means no gas because of lines and gas pumps don't work with no power neither (jokes on anti-EV folks who think gas is safe). Not to mention, you have to be around a few hundred pissed off people waiting in the same lines in this post-covid crazy filled world waiting for gas is not a good place to be.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

If you have solar/energy storage, you can still have power during a grid collapse. Maybe it's slower, but I can L1 charge or even L2 charge (if sun is shining and you being in AZ, it's almost always shining).

As others have mentioned, a massive disaster also means no gas because of lines and gas pumps don't work with no power neither (jokes on anti-EV folks who think gas is safe).

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I have a small to medium sized solar system and can run my house and still feed most of the power generated back into the grid during the day. Charging my EV at 48A will be no problem unless there's snow covering my panels, which can be remedied.

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