<div dir="ltr">But things are chaning very rapidly...<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">>> Before investing in a fossil fuel car it is good to ask where EV's are now and<br>
>> where they will be in 6 years when you go to try to sell that fossil.<br>
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>>See all the misinformation on EV's - Mostly wrong.<br>
>><a href="http://aprs.org/EV-misinformation.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://aprs.org/EV-<wbr>misinformation.html</a><br>
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> Half the people here at work commute at least 30 miles one-way.<br>
> A third commute over 50 miles...</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fortunately EV's now are coming out with over 200 mile daily range for those rare individuals with those long commutes...</div><div><br></div><div>> "Charging at Work: ... over 97% of all EV charging at work can be met </div><div>> with simple 120v
outlets." {to refresh up to 40 miles during the 8 hours parked at work).<br>
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> Most employers either can't or won't do this.</div><div>Eventually they will...</div><div><br></div><div>> ... they may not want to foot the bill [without] pay stations.</div><div><br></div><div>No one is asking for free charging, just simply pay by the month to plugin. A 30 mile commuter would expect to pay about $30/month to plug in at work (at 14 cent/kWh rates). and be full every afternoon in time for the ride home.</div><div><br></div><div>> ...in a government
facility, it turns out you *can't* have a station...</div><div><br></div><div>After years of letter writing that has changed! The Federal Policy now is to let any EV pluginto any available outlet for a fixed paymend of about $15 per month. And local agencies can even use existing maintenance funds to install additional standard 120v oiutlets.</div><div><br></div><div>
> Perhaps Maryland has charging passes but I'd bet most states don't...</div><div><br></div><div>You are right. Maryland is very progressive, but of the 30 people on the Governonr's EV council, only 3 drive EV's. And so we still have clueless people stuck in the gas-tank/gas-station legacy thinking who cannot conceive of the conveneience of simply plugging into a $15 simple outlet while parked and paying a fixed monthly rate.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Yes there are many people who cannot go EV yet, but there are a very large percentage of us that can... and should take care to be informed before making a huge investment in another fossil car they will be stuck with for the next decade. [and forever married to the greed of the oil companies]</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Besides, what Ham woiuld not like to have 24 kWh of battery whereever he goes with potential use in any emergency...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Bob, WB4APR</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>