The Silverfish of Tomorrow
Woke up thinking about one of the futuristic items from my childhood, the Sunraycer, which was a solar powered electric vehicle which showed the promise of the future.
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The VW Buzz is reportedly coming next year
We'll see. I've been waiting for this vehicle to make an appearance. I think I'd like to get one, but I'll need to see the specs and costs beforehand.
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Winnebago introduces electric camping van, eRV2
All in all I find it fairly underwhelming. From range to price, and the fact it's built on a Ford chassis. Just... not for me.
VW's ID Buzz microbus is much more in the vein of what I am interested in. Granted, it is nowhere near spacious, but I have a childhood nostalgia of camping in my family's conversion van where we slept in it but otherwise relied on tarp coverings for outdoor space.
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E-Bike?
No serious plans, but I have begun wondering if an E-bike might make sense for a future option when commuting to work. I used to bike to the office for a few years and enjoyed it, though I live further away now it might be an option to consider still.
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"USPS doubles its electric delivery vehicle purchase"
The USPS is in the midst of a multiyear process to turn over its fleet of aging and fire-prone delivery vehicles. Its initial order of 50,000 next generation delivery vehicles from Oshkosh Defense included just 10,019 EVs, with the rest being gas-powered. But the agency told Reuters that it would be boosting its total EV purchase to 25,000 delivery vehicles. Overall, at least 40% of USPS's 84,500 vehicles purchased in the coming years will be EVs, by the agency's estimate.
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"Inside Clean Energy: Some EVs Now Pay for Themselves in a Year"
I had really really wanted to make my current "new" car an EV. I really did. But I couldn't find an EV option which I was comfortable inside and which fit our budget. But I am committing here, finances allowing, regardless of size - our next car will be electric. Granted, based on our current purchasing frequency, that is ten years down the road. We'll see.
Most of us think of gasoline prices in terms of dollars per gallon, not dollars per barrel. Luckily, when Molchanov did his analysis he used numbers even English majors could understand. A gallon of gas cost $3.10 in 2021, according to the Energy Information Administration. That same gallon costs a lot more this year, and Molchanov doesn’t expect things to get better. He expects the average cost for 2022 to be about $4.50 per gallon. But while gas prices have jumped about 45 percent, Molchanov expects electricity costs to increase in 2022 by just 6 percent, from 13.7 to 14.5 cents per kilowatt hour. It suddenly got a lot cheaper to charge a battery than fill up a gas tank.
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