Awesome! EVs out there doing things. Love to see it. The EV9 is such a great vehicle.
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Awesome! EVs out there doing things. Love to see it. The EV9 is such a great vehicle.
That had to be written by AI? A lot of the word choices and phrases seemed a bit odd to me.
Sign me up for one of those!
Sigh. That sounds nice.
What I loved about driving manual sports cars for 25 years was being closer to what is happening in the motor. What I loved even more about driving an EV is the direct connection to the motor. Total control.
The one time we had a problem they caught it before we did! Basically one of our battery banks was not charging properly and just needed a reboot. They contacted me and scheduled someone to come out and check it out. I was impressed. @enphaseenergy.bsky.social
One thing I was particular about, I didn't want a system with a battery from one company, a smart switch from another, and an inverter from a third. If there was an issue I wanted one company to deal with. This is whyI went with an Enphase system: enphase.com
We were driving by a gas station yesterday & my wife commented how she doesn't even see them anymore. We noted how high the price of a gallon of gas is... that's a lot of money to turn 80% of it into wasted heat! Imagine how high the price would be if the US government stopped subsidizing it?
This prompted me to write an email to my city councilors here in Portland; @councilorclark.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social and @councilorzimmerman.bsky.social . My take is the staffs value is that we have their intelligence, integrity, and empathy guiding decisions, and writing is thinking.
I read this article on @opb.org about the disturbing amount that city officials and staff in Washington State are using AI to do their work. Everything from simple constituent correspondence, to actually public policy, and even sensitive ongoing police cases. www.opb.org/article/2025...
Those two vehicles aren’t competitive. The Mustang Mache E is a class above. I would consider the Escape to be a competitor of the Hyundai Kona EV though. It starts at $33k.
This! Not to mention EVs are pretty much at price parody with new gas cars. Have you seen the prices on ICE vehicles lately?
Totally. And if I’m driving longer than 370 miles I’m going to need a substantial stop for lunch which is longer than it takes to charge anyway.
They want to keep energy consumption centralized even if it destroys their children's' future and the rest of the planet.
It's things like this that make me happy to be a paid subscriber to @theguardian.com ! I got this email from Guardian columnist @georgemonbiot.bsky.social about the many terrible things the fossil fuel industry does to prevent the roll out of green energy technologies like solar, wind, and EVs.
Oh heck yes! Thanks for tagging me in on this!
It’s almost like lighting an explosive fluid thousands of times per minute in a metal block only for 80% of that energy to be wasted as heat and only 20% harnessed to move a vehicle with 3x the amount of moving parts is just a bad idea? 🤷♂️ EV life is just better. ☺️
I’m really disappointed in @scalzi.com … I’m a big fan of his work. Reading through his comments I perceived a bit less curiosity than I expected from & more rationalization. Too bad he didn’t just look up charger locations on PlugShare and read this interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/el...
When you wake up and realize you can take the day off! Enzo, our corgi chihuahua mix snugged back into the covers.
This is so similar to the one I saw yesterday too. Only difference was the blue rings around the wheels were silver.
This stupidity, selfishness, and willful ignorance is going to se the US back a generation while the rest of the world moves on. Words by @hcrichardson.bsky.social Read the full piece here: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-30-... #windpower #solarpower #renewableenergy #renwables
This really irks me. The Biden administration did so much great work pushing renewable energy development. The Trump administration is clawing it back. Net effects: - job cuts - electricity price increases - foreign investment pull back - deeper into climate change - reliance on oil billionaires
That’s awesome. E-bikes are fantastic. The EV switch was a massive mental shift. I had no idea how much of my brain was devoted to thinking about oil changes & tune ups in my gas cars. EVs just don’t need much. First time I should need brake pads is 120k miles! It will take me 14 years to hit that
🤷♂️ I think Scalzi could have made that decision in private. But he put it out there for conversation.
My insurance cost is the same. 3 years in no maintenance. First major maintenance will be 60k miles, just brake fluid. Not pads and rotors, just the fluid. You have some great questions. This link might have a lot of the answers you are looking for: interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/el...
Not to mention these $40 a month leases on new EVs: www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Sorry, I meant that for more Scalzi who has the ability to get an EV and plug it in. I just plug into a wall outlet. The car came with a charger. I have an Ioniq 5 with 300+ miles of range. Lightly used ones are under $30k.
Jordan Klepper last night at the Aladdin theater in Portland: “in most places 420, Pride week, and Halloween are separate holidays, but not here!” 🤣 @jordanklepper.bsky.social
Unfortunately this electric go kart track is even further out in Hillsboro, but it’s a fun time! I see a lot of people pull up in diesel pickups and ICE sports cars and I wonder if they realize they are coming out to race in little EVs? www.k1speed.com/portland-loc...
I love that. My wife did Skip Barber racing school years ago and loved it. She keeps asking when will there be something like that with EVs? In the meantime we like to race electric go karts.
Exactly this. And maybe, just maybe, we can actually put a little effort into not burning gas and destroying the planet? Charging an EV while I eat lunch isn’t much of an inconvenience.
Or, maybe we can be the slightest bit inconvenienced and charge over lunch to stop burning oil? We might have to actually do something.
The Equinox is a good choice. In that class, if you are asking me, I personally would nudge you to Kia EV6 or Hyundai Ioniq 5. Way more energy efficient, better range, much faster charging and more features like wireless car play. Both consistently win awards. insideevs.com/news/770328/...
My love for EVs and the Ioniq 5 in specific aside, that is just a beautiful photograph!!!!
You should be all set with a full EV. I have a Hyundai Ioniq 5 and I did a 180 mile drive the other day and still had like 40% range left. I get about 330 miles of range. If you put a level 2 charger in should be easy living.
👏👏👏 love this.
Also spotted this rare vintage JDM right hand drive Nissan Pao! This is the kind of car I want as an EV! Just cute and small.
Is this the feared liberal city? Went to Stumptown Coffee in Portland, a pride flag in the window, a bikes & an EV out front with a line of happy people inside chatting w/ friendly baristas. Walked around Mt Tabor & saw beautiful homes, curbside EV chargers, lots of dogs, & a City of Portland EV9!☺️
And buying politicians to stall renewables and charging infrastructure while paying off influencers to talk about slow, unreliable oil burners to delay EV adoption as long as possible in the US
If only the just kept publishing press releases talking about some mythical EV they won’t make for another 5 years… 🤣🤣🤣
It’s really odd how some of the EV only media seems to grade startups like Lucid and Rivian as well as US brands like Ford and GM on a curve, pines for nonexistent Toyota and Honda EVs while being so hard on Hyundai & Kia. The actual auto journalists seem to get it though. youtu.be/RBcV-Nb7Nrk?...
We could never go back to having a gas car at this point. Our Polestar 2 & Ioniq 5 EVs have been problem free with very little maintenance, just easy to live with. It’s also been nice to not have fumes in the garage and unexpected bonus, they stay cleaner because no brake dust coming off the wheels!
Yep. Made the switch about 3 years ago and range anxiety disappeared in a few weeks. It is definitely something the media hypes up. Just got our second EV. A Hyundai Ioniq 5 with over 300 miles of range and fast charging. youtu.be/RBcV-Nb7Nrk?...
Had to block them. Just way too hostile.
1) you can see it lock and hear it in the video 2) your post says “there is no locking mechanism”, an assumption I answered. Sorry, it read more like a gotcha with a question mark than a question to me. A question might read like: Hey, just curious, do these lock?
“[Y]ou’re pulling paychecks from working families...apprentices out of training facilities...opportunity out of our communities. Every solar panel installed, wind turbine wired, EV charger connected, that’s a job with wages, healthcare & a pension that stands for dignity for the American worker...”
Ironically the vegan takeaway we love was backed up yesterday and I spent 45 minutes waiting for it… a lot longer than it would take my car to charge. 🤣… but we have these things called phones so I could just read and listen to music without making a fuss about it.
Our life is good. The juxtaposition of all that is happening in the world and in the US in particular is the cause for a lot of dissonance but we try to balance be involved and informed with making some space for joy.
Why would you think that? It locks of course. The car needs to be unlocked and then you need to press a button to stop the charge and unlock the connector.
“Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few.” Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote that in 1819 Labor Day protests on Monday. @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org @pdxoregon50501.bsky.social
I saw someone on BlueSky say “Toyota EVs are sexy” I don’t get this romanticism of Toyota? It’s the GM of Japan. I’ve owned 2. An MR2 and a Matrix. Both manuals. Reliable and adequate but dull with odd gearing and almost no noise deadening so all you could hear was a strung out 4 cylinder at speed.
🤣 or the camry
I swear food tastes better cooked on induction. Maybe because of the fast even heating. My partner made dinner the other night and I asked what she did differently. Same recipe she has made for the last 5 years she said, cooking on induction was the only difference.
Yes! I hated cleaning our last two gas stoves. Just wiping down an induction is so pleasant in comparison!
Our insurance for 2 brand new EVs is just about the same as it was for our 2 fully insured gas cars in Oregon.
same, I eat vegan... which is why I'm trying to celebrate this all vegan coffee shop.
theexquisitecreatures.com
Yep, right you are. But in this case all of the milks, pastries and sandwiches at this coffee shop are plant based as well.
Same for me 95% of the time. It’s so amazing to be able to plug an EV in at home if you can.
Coffee stop number 2 for the day. Exquisite Creatures plant based coffee shop in SE Portland for a cappuccino and a vegan breakfast sandwich.
@bustedride.bsky.social some of these accounts, I assume they are paid oil industry trolls. Almost no followers, very little to no bio info, very few posts but a lot of replies to EV content specifically.
Yah, I mean the other day I drove 3 hours on the highway in my Hyundai Ioniq 5 and still had like 40% charge left. My range was clocking in at over 330 miles. 🤷♂️… dropped an extension cord from the window of the place I was staying in and charged. Electricity is everywhere gas is.
And they were playing super rare 1980s electro goth music by Martin Dupont in the coffee shop! music.apple.com/us/album/jus...
Coffee with friends this morning at The One Moto Cafe in Portland. Friend vehicle count: EVs: 4 (including me) Bicycles: 3 Motorcycles: 1 Gas cars: 6 Not a bad ratio! @timtrautmann.com @jamesowendesign.bsky.social
It really is. And the the FUD is amazing. I’ve heard all the same BS disinformation about EVs so many times from accounts with no followers and an axe to grind. Of course he didn’t read the link. I assume just searching posts that mention EVs and charging. The only thing this gets them is blocked.
Dude. You are living it! I love that. I need to put a little bucket next to our condensation port for our heat pump.
Do you guys not have electricity? Bud, you drank the oil. Have a great life.
Literally everything you just wrote are incorrect oil industry misinformation talking points. Give this a read: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21...
Still the same 10 seconds for me. Last time I fast charged my EV on a roadtrip was at a EVgo outside a Walmart and Starbucks. Went in to go to the bathroom and get a coffee. It was done charging by the time I got out.
And yes, this is a big mental shift going from a petrol car to an EV. And yes, change is hard. But I think the planet is worth us having to adjust just a bit. driving.ca/auto-news/in...
Love this thread! Thanks for posting! Having had a few performance cars most of them only made it ~230 miles before needing to refuel. I was going to the gas station all of the time! Switching to an EV 3 years ago I realize that range anxiety is something journalists like to write click bait about
My EV only takes about 10 seconds to charge. 5 seconds to plug in at the grocery store, a restaurant, the mall, or at home. 5 seconds to unplug. ☺️ It’s not a gas pump. I don’t stand there and watch it. It’s like a laptop. I plug it in and do other stuff. It’s a different state of mind.
Another troubling bit amidst all of the many troubling bits, people calling out abuses of power and gross incompetence being fired instead of respected. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-29-...
Words from @hcrichardson.bsky.social … if you didn’t know it already, the US is in trouble. We have active anti science grifters in charge of the CDC. Get all the vaccines you can while you can. Read the rest here: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-29-...
It’s nice not to have a toxic explosive substance flowing into our houses anymore! When you step back and think about it natural gas lines are just not a good idea at all! EV life has been fantastic for us. Making all these changes, while important and necessary, is expensive. It took us years.
Electrify Now is another good resource I send to neighbors who have questions. They do a lot of online seminars about switching to electric: electrifynow.net
It’s from this great organization called Electrify PDX. They organize a lot of educational events around Portland about electrification: electrifypdx.org
Congrats! This is awesome to read!!! We have been in the electrification journey as well. Heat pumps, solar, battery back up, EVs and induction. After 4 years of working in it we finally cut our gas line! bsky.app/profile/d2lo...
I am so glad I’m seeing Jordan Klepper this weekend in Portland. @jordanklepper.bsky.social www.officialjordanklepper.com
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Yah, I said 18 inches in the video too... I mean obviously its smaller but the 18 being there on the blade and it just came out...
Oh my god, I didn't realize how garbage my old knife was.
It has been a long time since I have done one of my "Designer Unboxing" videos. I added one to the series today with an unboxing of a Global Cromova bread knife. #industrialdesign youtu.be/nidiodhjTM0?...
had to go out for teeth cleaning and a little wart removal ... lots of sleeping it off today.
They are raising the gas tax a bit but they should probably go much further, CA level.
I’ve raised my concerns. How does this capture EV drivers from WA and CA coming into the state? It doesn’t. How does it account for miles I spend out of state?
The plan was to make up for lost gas taxes which have been kept ridiculously low in this state and gas sales are way down due to EV adoption here. The original plan was to make ALL vehicles pay the per mile tax and for there to be a weight element but republicans threatened a walk out.
That great! I’ve only had an EV for a little less than 3 years but every gas car feels like an antique rickety death trap belching carcinogenic greenhouse fumes in comparison now 🤣. I even upgraded to a Mercedes on a trip and it just felt like utter garbage compared to an EV.
Donut day.
In my experience the rental co’s come up so short. One tried to give me a BMW i4 EV with only 30% charge. I asked would you send out a gas car with 1/3 tank? No? Then why isn’t this charged… “the charger is far away” I opened the trunk and showed them the 110v charger and pointed out an outlet.
Seems like the only market they have left.
Great point! And we can make electricity a dozen different ways, gasoline you can just make from oil.
Awesome! Congrats! What did you get? I love that about EVs. They are so fun to drive. Check out this video of a stock Polestar 2 EV totally crushing a Dodge Demon at a drag strip. You can just hear someone say “that’s an EV” in the crowd at the end 🤣
Nicely done in that bit there!
The Model Why? Who would buy this?
Being a FUD merchant must be lucrative because there are so many people on here repeating disinformation about EVs!
Great points. People ask me “how will you power your EV in a disaster?” I always say I’ll just plug it in, I have solar, how will you fuel your car? Usually they haven’t thought about how if the roads are broken out of town are broken, no fuel is coming in, & if power is out, the pumps don’t work.
It’s such a cool car.
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I wish it all wasn't so out of reach for most folks. I have to say I was reluctant to put my money where my mouth is but my partner kept patiently nudging and we just did one project at a time... eventually it kind of became a hobby. Better than the cars and watches other 50 Y/O white dudes collect!