Florida Power & Light is our remarkably entrepreneurial local electric utility. They may have purchased a mailing list of “total douches very likely to own a Tesla” because they recently sent me an email trying to sell an unlimited charge-at-home plan for EVs:
If they don’t need to pull a permit and run wires inside the garage, in other words, it is $372 per year for all of the electricity that you can fit into your Cybertruck or F150 Lightning. That’s an interesting way to help sell the idea of EVs.
This is on top of the somewhat fake SolarTogether program for virtue signalers who want to say that they’re using all solar power at home.
(Of course, I immediately signed up for SolarTogether. It’s a small price to pay for the virtue points!)
If we did have a Tesla and if we could fit it into our 2-car garage (mostly filled with bicycles, shelves, boxes, an heirloom sports car), I would definitely sign up for this new FPL scheme.
heirloom sports car? Can more details be provided? What is the make, model and year? Is the car in operation? How does it compare to the mini van? Most importantly… is a pussy magnet installed?
A 2022 C8 Corvette! Hence my time at https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/12/21/corvette-driving-school-report-ron-fellows-near-las-vegas/
It will be an heirloom by the time the youngest (8) is old enough to drive!
As noted in Borat, the magnet is factory-installed and, in fact, the car gets a lot of approving shouts from local gals of all ages.
The ‘vette is functional as a daily driver, of course, and I have taken it as far as Orlando (2:20) and Miami (1:30). Around town with the top down, it is a lot more fun than the minivan. Above about 50 mph, however, it gets noisy with the top down. Once you put the top up, it’s still noisier and less comfortable and has fewer driver aids than the Odyssey. Can it go faster than the Odyssey? Not on a Florida highway. You can drive the Odyssey at 85-90 mph on I-95 if you want to keep up with traffic in the left lane and it handles fine. The Corvette could go 150 mph or faster, but I’m not in that much of a hurry.
The Corvette gets great gas mileage on the highway, incidentally. It will shut down half of the cylinders. The EPA highway mileage is 24 mpg, but I’m convinced that it burns much less. https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/c8-general-discussion/4576997-c8-gas-mileage.html says 33 mpg and even 41 mpg may be possible. I know that our government would never lie to us, so I can’t account for this discrepancy. Visiting a gas station is a rare event for me in the C8.
The vette gets em wet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csLgaK20SSY
Electricity generation these days costs almost nothing while the transmission has a fixed cost, so a fixed rate plan might work. In Calif*, the community solar plan is lumped together in a variety green plans with increasing amounts of electricity purchased from the green buzzwords of the day. Helas, hydro power is less green than it used to be since there’s usually no water.
I have 4 Tesla’s.
I don’t think I spend $400 charging all of them at home.
How much do you drive?
$400 per year for all four?!? My friend in Maskachusetts ran the numbers for his Tesla 3 at MA electricity prices and concluded that gasoline for a Honda Accord or Toyota Camry to go the same number of miles would actually be cheaper.
We drive 10-12,000 miles per year on the two household cars combined.
“Unable to imagine a job more secure than university bureaucrat, “
University presidents have a very tenuous hold on their jobs, as I’ve learned from regular reading of the “Inside Higher Ed” and “Chronicles of Higher Education” websites.
These are my substitutes for a daily crossword puzzle. Reading them is like taking a little daily IQ rest, since so much is hidden between the lines, and it’s fun to ferret it out.
There’ll be something about “fixing” STEM education. It needs fixing? After 26 vague, abstract paragraphs there’ll be a hint that the “problem” is too few blacks and women, and how can that be “fixed” without it looking like a thumb is on the scale?