Shower Thoughts

An argument for electric vehicles a lot of people miss is sovereignty 

You can live in the woods with no gas stockpile (or fuel supply network) and charge from a waterwheel, solar panel, woodfired steam engine, human power (dynamo), windmill, weird energy-emitting alien obelisk you found. Anything. 

That’s freedom.

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Also giant battery built in for deferring generated power (with V2L), allows you to be more opportunistic and more predictable reserves. Otherwise really hard to do on your own (maybe gravity batteries if you have access to hilly terrain).

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Yeah that’s a great point. I was wondering if anyone would bring up batteries because there’s so pretty incredible technology at the bleeding edge right now and once it’s released electric will be the clear best option.

Although one thing I believe in that may surprise people is…

Would love to see a whole industry spring up. I only know of one business doing this so far:

Would love to see a whole industry spring up. I only know of one business doing this so far:

https://www.zelectricmotors.com/

…I’m actually not very interested in new electric cars being made. I’d love to see retrofitting of old cars. I prefer the look, it’s less consumerist/wasteful, and it’s just frankly really cool to see old become new again.