What are some other signs you’ve noticed that signal things are moving in the right direction?
I’m in Canada and most ads are still ICE vehicles. I don’t think I’ve seen an EV ad.
selling more cars
right direction
See, this is why we are doomed.
ok doomer
Years ago there were few public EV chargers, and even then it was common when I used one that I was the only one there. Today there are many more public EV chargers and and multi-stall chargers, its more rare that I’m the only one charging.
I saw this on Mastodon recently. I love the idea of a company that isn’t usually associated with energy coming in and beating big oil to the mark.
There is a regional chain of grocery stores in my area that have level 2 and 50Kw level 3 chargers. They give you 1 free hour of level 2 charging per day (per location, I later discovered). At 9.6k charge rate, its not a huge savings, but I almost always use it when I grocery shop and its nice to come out to the car with 5% or 8% charged added.
beautiful I wonder if one day it’ll be as simple as parking your car and having it wirelessly charge without even thinking about it
There was a company called Wiferion that was bringing this exact product to market. They were bought by Tesla though and nothing has since come out.
There is another company called Witricity that claims to have a product ready in 2025.
Wiferion
I assume it was “Wi-fer-i-on”, but i keep reading it as “Wife-rion”.
But still, very cool
Even LEGO sets are getting EVSE. Octan has diversified into electric with the OctanE brand.
I haven’t seen a car ad for years.
/rant Assuming you’re in the US, though it applies elsewhere, but an energy/transportation revolution would be much nicer. I don’t see much of a point with electric vehicles if that renewable energy is going into businesses and homes anyways - there is no surplus of renewables that electric vehicles can use and claim “net 0.” Most of our electricity is from fossil fuels and yeah renewables reduce that - nice! For now, nuclear is unfortunately too close to home for most people and we are going to struggle more with ineffective alternatives. I think electric vehicles are nice, but they represent a technological feat, not a social one. Technology is much easier to engineer and is thus much less impressive or impactful than a social feat like pushing for nuclear or geothermal. /unrant
isn’t the main holdup on renewables in the states still coal/oil lobbyists and nimbys?
I’m not in the US :)
