My experience with the Tesla Model 3
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Stompin Tom
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the comments after the story are interesting
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jhurkot
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If you read the article it clearly states they want the right to install charging infrastructure (at their cost) and pay for the electricity used. Everyone in the comments didn't read the article.
I wouldn't measure EV adoption by how many people came to one event. I would use the sales numbers.
Stompin Tom
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what I find admiring is the fact that you feel that every remark towards electric vehicles needs to be defended to the death.
Stompin Tom
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in other areas yes, around here no. The funny thing is we have a University, a whole bunch of tree hugging students and faculty. Yet almost no electric vehicles.
At this point they are just not practical in the north. Sure in larger, warmer areas there is a case to be made.
Heck even the city bought a couple to try out and now have banned their use in winter months due to safety concerns.
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Depends on ones reading comprehension as to what was stated in the article...here is the quote .........Start quote.....One way to encourage electric vehicle adoption is to legislate the "right to charge," Beckett said.
Residents living in apartments and other multi-family complexes can be denied the ability to charge their vehicle at home, he said. Requiring that multi-family buildings allow vehicle owners to install charging infrastructure would accelerate the shift to electric vehicles, he said.
"We're not asking for free power," he added, just the right to have the changing equipment available and pay for the electricity consumption......end quote.
This is my take on things...people want legislation to force multi family property owners to install charging facilities at the property owners cost and the end user is willing to pay for the electricity costs. The property owner will be forced to install charging facilities because they will not be allowed to deny the EV owner “their right to charge their EV”
That’s what I got from the article...but I have been wrong before...lol.
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jhurkot
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Thanks for the safety alert. I’ll park mine when the temperature drops below zero.
ABMax24
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Read further down. "[FONT="]Requiring that multi-family buildings allow vehicle owners to install charging infrastructure would accelerate the shift to electric vehicles, he said."
[/FONT][FONT="]They just want the right to install chargers on the outside of the building, in the same way many fought to have satellite dishes install in the early 2000's.
I think with new buildings its soon going to be a mute point anyway. Lots of new homes are coming pre-wired for a solar array on the roof, soon garages and houses will come pre-wired for car chargers.[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
Pedaling pete
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Wonder how much it would cost to add metered 220 power to your average apartment building parking stall. I bet it would be in the thousands. If not tens or hundreds of thousands in some cases....
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TROLLCAT
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Question is there a generator built that can quick charge a EV.
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jhurkot
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Something weird in this story is the car accelerating when the police officer tried to pull it over. I’m pretty sure autopilot does not have “OJ Simpson mode”.
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ABMax24
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I agree that part makes no sense.
Caper11
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Im not sure how the auto pilot works, but will the car sense another approaching and accelerate to avoid being rear ended???
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jhurkot
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No. Not yet at least. No radar on the back, just a camera.
machinehead
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So with all this technology, you can duct tape a water bottle to steering wheel , to fool the Auto Pilot ?
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I've actually noticed a pretty big jump in the number of Tesla's running around Edmonton specifically and Alberta in general. 2-3 years ago I would spot 1 or 2 a week while logging 2000km per week across the province. Now I swear I see at least 1 every time I'm out and my travel has significantly decreased with the new job. There are at least a dozen folks who drive Tesla's as daily commuters between Stony Plain and Edmonton, I see at least 1 if not 2,3,4 each time I commute, and my schedule varies so it's not the same 3 people at the same time every day. My last trip to Cochran and back I counted over 20 Tesla's in a one day round trip - most of them in Calgary but at least 8-10 on Hwy 2 between Edm & Cgy….. There is no denying that their popularity is increasing if there were 20 in the province in 2015 and there are 500 now that is a 25 fold increase but that is still only 500 out of 500,000 or more. I think their popularity will continue to increase exponentially until the demand for charging taxes the power grid and the government slaps an EV excise tax as opposed to rebates and incentives.
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edmonton still doesn't have an authorized repair center in the edmonton area. One fellow we deal with has 5 tesla's(he uses them for uber and skip the dishes etc) he leases to drivers. He has had breakdowns and tesla trailered one of his vehicles to calgary for major repair to wiring. We repaired one of his other vehicles(was an easy fix, loose connections) and did out of province inspections on 2 he brought in from bc.
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