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Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
You, sir, do NOT need a vehicle. This whole BEV vs ICE vs FCEV argument is pointless in your position. The lowest emission solution for your situation is to continue biking/walking/mass-transit to all your destinations and then keeping your existing vehicle for all your long range needs (or RENTING one if it's infrequent enough - maybe Zipcar?).
Congratulations! You are the very first person I've had this argument with here to recognize that. I reached that conclusion years ago without ever owning a BEV, as WetEV, you and many others have insisted I must, despite my laying out the reasons why that conclusion is false for me.

Now, assuming my ICE doesn't blow up in the next five years or so, I intend to keep it until such time as a ZEV can meet my road trip needs. However, the ideal solution from my point of view is that I would by then be able to rent a ZEV for such trips, eliminating any need for car ownership on my part at all. I do have a rental place that will pick up and drop off, but as I've already got a car sitting in my driveway that meets my needs as closely as it was possible to find when I bought it, and costs me less every additional year I own it (I have pay-per mile insurance which also incentives me not to drive it when I don't need to), it's currently cheaper to keep it.

Re Zipcar, I've considered it, but as of yet there aren't any locations convenient (walking distance) to me - the nearest ones are 2 miles and several hundred feet higher than me. Now maybe you can understand why I view wirelessly-charged AV BEVs as one of the keys to mass-scale urban adoption of BEVs.

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Your situation is unique in that it needs to weigh far more than the emissions and fueling convenience of the technologies in question and factor in the production costs and maintenance interval of the vehicles as well before determining what is "best".
Hardly unique, since U.S. Millenials are adopting the same lifestyle in large numbers.

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Funny enough, in your situation, where your fueling intervals are months apart, an FCEV is actually NOT a viable solution, since much of your "fuel" would have leaked before you make much use of it. A CNG (Honda Civic CNG) would be your lowest emission solution, since it's the lowest emission combustion-based vehicle with a somewhat decent fueling infrastructure. A state-less BEV like a Bolt could also work, since it won't vampire drain like a Tesla would, and so you can keep it parked at 70% most of the time.
I've looked at FCEV leakage rates, and they are minimal enough (and my H2 station is close enough) that it wouldn't be a significant factor. I see the occasional CNG Civic around here (there's a fueling station at a PG&E office), but that infrastructure, while currently greater in urban areas is just as lacking in the rural places I take road trips to as the still nascent H2 one, and not ZEV in any case: http://www.cnglocator.net/CNGLocationsbyState/CaliforniaCNGStations.html

When I switch, I want it to be all the way to ZEV with no half measures. Of course, if my car were to blow up in the interim and I decided I needed a car (I'd experiment for a couple of months with going car-less first to see if that was acceptable), then the only rational AFV choice for me would be a PHEV with a small enough battery pack (25-35 miles AER) that I could charge it off-peak overnight on L1, relying on the gas ICE during the heating months witht he occasional opportunity charge, so I'm not wasting heat out a window while charging the car by extension cord. That would at least allow me to be ZEV in populated areas.

Re vampire-free BEVs, yes, that has been a consideration for me, and given my long parking intervals might even make a BEV covered with a useful amount of solar panels valuable eventually. But car ownership is so old school, and I'n hoping I can avoid any future rounds of that entirely. Of course, if my situation were to change significantly then owning instead of renting when I need it may make sense, but my goal is to do everything in my personal power to reduce the total number of motor vehicles (and reduce their size), not just transition to a different energy source.

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Although an ICE won't need to be fueled often, it still needs maintenance, and the fuel has to be stirred to keep from going stale. Really your use case is NOT anywhere near normal for the rest of the nation (don't try to be cute and consider the "worldwide" population as that's just BS).
I've repeatedly disclaimed that my use case is typical, including several times recently in this thread. As one example, I pointed out that as a bike commuter I was part of some fraction of 1% of U.S. commuters, vs. the 76% who commute solo by car. But other countries with higher density , more walkable/bikable cities and better public transit options also drive a lot less than overweight/obese Americans do.

Re maintenance, I keep full maintenance records for my car, and because I drive it so little (65k in 15 years) and do all the required maintenance, its costs are modest. Oil changes every year or two, tune ups every 5 or 6, and I've never needed to replace brakes, clutch, transmission or any other major component on any car I've owned, and I've typically owned them for 15 years or more. Buying a reliable car and then maintaining it per the specified intervals has been very successful for me, even when I drove a lot more miles a year than I do now.

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Having written all that, I now see that you're trolling. Your transportation arrangement puts you in no position to argue with people who live in a way that reflects the habits of MOST of the nation. I now understand why your arguments seemed specious, because they were all baseless and without any grounding reality. It's the reason why "the other side" lacks comprehension, because there's nothing to comprehend other than your desire to stir the pot.
Nonsense. As noted above, at no time have I ever claimed that my usage is typical. I've also stated on numerous occasions that a BEV with convenient, guaranteed, inexpensive charging is a major plus for those in a situation to take advantage of it. I have also quoted percentages of population in various regions who are able to take advantage of that, and pointed out that the U.S. has the highest % (56% per Plug-In America survey) of households who can charge at home (at least L1), but that the rest of the world, including those countries which will be seeing the majority of car sales going forward have much lower rates of such access owing to different housing types predominating, and that what may be a societal shift (we still don't know whether it will be long-term) in attitudes to car ownership is occurring among millenials. How is any of this trolling or without any grounding in reality?

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
At this point, I anticipate that you'll retort with how you don't need direct experience to understand logical concepts. I will put you on my ignore list if that's what you truly believe.

Are you a bot?
Oh, come now. Do you really think any bot could write my replies? I've got direct experience of lots of things, including living in a car-dependent community and driving everywhere in a car like most Americans do. I chose to stop doing that, because it was bad for me and bad for the environment. Do you consider that an illogical concept or conclusion?
 
GRA said:
Very nice. For the umpteenth time, just who is going to pay for this in a rental housing property? You keep harking back to the convenience advantages of home charging, so how does a Tesla destination charger at a hotel have anything to do with that?
I might be in the minority.... however I plan to add EV charging upon request at my cost and connect it to the house meter.
Eventually rent would be increased to more than pay for the electricity + install + maintenance.

Sorry I have no vacancy at this time.
 
smkettner said:
I might be in the minority.... however I plan to add EV charging upon request at my cost and connect it to the house meter.
You aren't willing to install hydrolysis, pressurization, and dispensing equipment to provide your tenants with H2 fuel? What a terrible landlord!
 
GRA said:
Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
You, sir, do NOT need a vehicle. This whole BEV vs ICE vs FCEV argument is pointless in your position. The lowest emission solution for your situation is to continue biking/walking/mass-transit to all your destinations and then keeping your existing vehicle for all your long range needs (or RENTING one if it's infrequent enough - maybe Zipcar?).
Congratulations! You are the very first person I've had this argument with here to recognize that. I reached that conclusion years ago without ever owning a BEV, as WetEV, you and many others have insisted I must, despite my laying out the reasons why that conclusion is false for me.

Now, assuming my ICE doesn't blow up in the next five years or so, I intend to keep it until such time as a ZEV can meet my road trip needs. However, the ideal solution from my point of view is that I would by then be able to rent a ZEV for such trips, eliminating any need for car ownership on my part at all. I do have a rental place that will pick up and drop off, but as I've already got a car sitting in my driveway that meets my needs as closely as it was possible to find when I bought it, and costs me less every additional year I own it (I have pay-per mile insurance which also incentives me not to drive it when I don't need to), it's currently cheaper to keep it.

Re Zipcar, I've considered it, but as of yet there aren't any locations convenient (walking distance) to me - the nearest ones are 2 miles and several hundred feet higher than me. Now maybe you can understand why I view wirelessly-charged AV BEVs as one of the keys to mass-scale urban adoption of BEVs.

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Your situation is unique in that it needs to weigh far more than the emissions and fueling convenience of the technologies in question and factor in the production costs and maintenance interval of the vehicles as well before determining what is "best".
Hardly unique, since U.S. Millenials are adopting the same lifestyle in large numbers.

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Funny enough, in your situation, where your fueling intervals are months apart, an FCEV is actually NOT a viable solution, since much of your "fuel" would have leaked before you make much use of it. A CNG (Honda Civic CNG) would be your lowest emission solution, since it's the lowest emission combustion-based vehicle with a somewhat decent fueling infrastructure. A state-less BEV like a Bolt could also work, since it won't vampire drain like a Tesla would, and so you can keep it parked at 70% most of the time.
I've looked at FCEV leakage rates, and they are minimal enough (and my H2 station is close enough) that it wouldn't be a significant factor. I see the occasional CNG Civic around here (there's a fueling station at a PG&E office), but that infrastructure, while currently greater in urban areas is just as lacking in the rural places I take road trips to as the still nascent H2 one, and not ZEV in any case: http://www.cnglocator.net/CNGLocationsbyState/CaliforniaCNGStations.html

When I switch, I want it to be all the way to ZEV with no half measures. Of course, if my car were to blow up in the interim and I decided I needed a car (I'd experiment for a couple of months with going car-less first to see if that was acceptable), then the only rational AFV choice for me would be a PHEV with a small enough battery pack (25-35 miles AER) that I could charge it off-peak overnight on L1, relying on the gas ICE during the heating months witht he occasional opportunity charge, so I'm not wasting heat out a window while charging the car by extension cord. That would at least allow me to be ZEV in populated areas.

Re vampire-free BEVs, yes, that has been a consideration for me, and given my long parking intervals might even make a BEV covered with a useful amount of solar panels valuable eventually. But car ownership is so old school, and I'n hoping I can avoid any future rounds of that entirely. Of course, if my situation were to change significantly then owning instead of renting when I need it may make sense, but my goal is to do everything in my personal power to reduce the total number of motor vehicles (and reduce their size), not just transition to a different energy source.

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Although an ICE won't need to be fueled often, it still needs maintenance, and the fuel has to be stirred to keep from going stale. Really your use case is NOT anywhere near normal for the rest of the nation (don't try to be cute and consider the "worldwide" population as that's just BS).
I've repeatedly disclaimed that my use case is typical, including several times recently in this thread. As one example, I pointed out that as a bike commuter I was part of some fraction of 1% of U.S. commuters, vs. the 76% who commute solo by car. But other countries with higher density , more walkable/bikable cities and better public transit options also drive a lot less than overweight/obese Americans do.

Re maintenance, I keep full maintenance records for my car, and because I drive it so little (65k in 15 years) and do all the required maintenance, its costs are modest. Oil changes every year or two, tune ups every 5 or 6, and I've never needed to replace brakes, clutch, transmission or any other major component on any car I've owned, and I've typically owned them for 15 years or more. Buying a reliable car and then maintaining it per the specified intervals has been very successful for me, even when I drove a lot more miles a year than I do now.

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Having written all that, I now see that you're trolling. Your transportation arrangement puts you in no position to argue with people who live in a way that reflects the habits of MOST of the nation. I now understand why your arguments seemed specious, because they were all baseless and without any grounding reality. It's the reason why "the other side" lacks comprehension, because there's nothing to comprehend other than your desire to stir the pot.
Nonsense. As noted above, at no time have I ever claimed that my usage is typical. I've also stated on numerous occasions that a BEV with convenient, guaranteed, inexpensive charging is a major plus for those in a situation to take advantage of it. I have also quoted percentages of population in various regions who are able to take advantage of that, and pointed out that the U.S. has the highest % (56% per Plug-In America survey) of households who can charge at home (at least L1), but that the rest of the world, including those countries which will be seeing the majority of car sales going forward have much lower rates of such access owing to different housing types predominating, and that what may be a societal shift (we still don't know whether it will be long-term) in attitudes to car ownership is occurring among millenials. How is any of this trolling or without any grounding in reality?

Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
At this point, I anticipate that you'll retort with how you don't need direct experience to understand logical concepts. I will put you on my ignore list if that's what you truly believe.

Are you a bot?
Oh, come now. Do you really think any bot could write my replies? I've got direct experience of lots of things, including living in a car-dependent community and driving everywhere in a car like most Americans do. I chose to stop doing that, because it was bad for me and bad for the environment. Do you consider that an illogical concept or conclusion?

Wonderful, so you are a troll. Advocating for FCEV's, and downplaying BEV's, even though you yourself have done away with a lifestyle that's dependent on a personal motorized vehicle. As I've said, without direct experience of living with a BEV or an FCEV (like how mux had), you are just playing word games and diliberately wasting everyone else's earnest efforts. Goodbye.
 
smkettner said:
GRA said:
Very nice. For the umpteenth time, just who is going to pay for this in a rental housing property? You keep harking back to the convenience advantages of home charging, so how does a Tesla destination charger at a hotel have anything to do with that?
I might be in the minority.... however I plan to add EV charging upon request at my cost and connect it to the house meter.
Eventually rent would be increased to more than pay for the electricity + install + maintenance.

Sorry I have no vacancy at this time.
If you're speaking as landlord, you definitely are in a minority. There's no incentive for a landlord to install the most efficient appliances (the tenant's going to pay the utility bill one way or the other), and there's little incentive for a landlord to add L2 charging to an existing building unless they get some kind of subsidy. There will always be a few who do it for ideological reasons (like Tom Moloughney adding a charger at his restaurant), but they will remain a minority until there's such demand for charging that it becomes an advertising advantage.
 
Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Wonderful, so you are a troll. Advocating for FCEV's, and downplaying BEV's, even though you yourself have done away with a lifestyle that's dependent on a personal motorized vehicle. As I've said, without direct experience of living with a BEV or an FCEV (like how mux had), you are just playing word games and diliberately wasting everyone else's earnest efforts. Goodbye.
Ah, advocating for FCEVs or any other specific AFV tech is something I've never done. Supporting them, sure, recommending this or that tech for specific situations, definitely, but I've never suggested at any time that there is (as yet) any single AFV solution to the issues we face. And I did live with a BEV, for a week in '97 or '98, which answered many of my most pressing questions as to their utility and usage. For instance, the first day I realized that in any single-car BEV household, being limited to L1 charging imposed unacceptable restrictions on spontaneity, one of the major benefits of owning a car. This revelation came about when i returned home with the battery almost depleted after doing my first range test, only to have a friend of mine call me up and invite me over to hang out. As he lived far enough away that it would have taken me 4 hours of L1 charging before I could have made it there and back, BEV Lesson #1 was if you're restricted to a BEV you need L2 at home, or else close by QC.

Lesson #2 was that a restricted range (sub-100 mile) BEV simply wasn't suitable for my intra-regional travel needs, never mind road trips with the then non-existent public charging infrastructure; the crucial need for the latter was Lesson #3. And those, really, were all the critical lessons living with a BEV gave me; any car so restricted couldn't meet my major needs, so any minor ones that I'd learn while living with it for a longer period were irrelevant.

Things have obviously improved in many areas since then, but not yet enough to meet my car needs. Once they do, I'll switch.

I do find it mildly amusing that I get accused of being a troll or anti-EV here once or twice a year on average, by people who insist that because I point out that BEVs (or FCEVs, or bio-fuels, or whichever tech happens to be their particular hobbyhorse) aren't the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything but instead have specific advantages and disadvantages that suit them better or worse for particular situations, I'm not a true believer in the revealed faith and therefore must be anti-whatever. What I am is anti-hype and anti-coal, an eco-pragmatist who's pro-renewables, ZEVs, bio-fuels, and energy efficiency/reduction, but who recognizes that goals and methods often conflict and compromises must be made, and that there is no single solution to our problems.
 
Damn, so they haven't even gotten leasers on board this year. This way they're never going to reach their sales targets. I hope they're going to try a bit harder for the new model year...
 
GRA said:
I do find it mildly amusing that I get accused of being a troll or anti-EV here once or twice a year on average,

This is a discussion forum for the Nissan LEAF EV. Huge numbers of posts on fuel cell EVs and assorted other off topic stuff is trolling.
 
WetEV said:
GRA said:
I do find it mildly amusing that I get accused of being a troll or anti-EV here once or twice a year on average,

This is a discussion forum for the Nissan LEAF EV. Huge numbers of posts on fuel cell EVs and assorted other off topic stuff is trolling.

But this is a thread for a Fuel Cell vehicle. If you only want to read about the Leaf or EVs, why do you ever click on this thread?
 
GetOffYourGas said:
WetEV said:
GRA said:
I do find it mildly amusing that I get accused of being a troll or anti-EV here once or twice a year on average,

This is a discussion forum for the Nissan LEAF EV. Huge numbers of posts on fuel cell EVs and assorted other off topic stuff is trolling.

But this is a thread for a Fuel Cell vehicle. If you only want to read about the Leaf or EVs, why do you ever click on this thread?

Because I made the mistake of responding to trolling. Sorry.
 
WetEV said:
GetOffYourGas said:
WetEV said:
This is a discussion forum for the Nissan LEAF EV. Huge numbers of posts on fuel cell EVs and assorted other off topic stuff is trolling.

But this is a thread for a Fuel Cell vehicle. If you only want to read about the Leaf or EVs, why do you ever click on this thread?

Because I made the mistake of responding to trolling. Sorry.
How exactly is posting info on or discussing FCEVs in the "Other Electric Cars and Plug-in hybrids" sub-forum trolling, as they are unquestionably EVs? Here's a common definition of trolling:
An Internet troll is a member of an online social community who deliberately tries to disrupt, attack, offend or generally cause trouble within the community by posting certain comments, photos, videos, GIFs or some other form of online content.
As for huge numbers of posts, the majority of my posts on these topics is due to my replying to you and others who are anti-FCEV/H2. If you find the volume of posts offensive, don't bother to reply to my posts and I won't have any need to reply to yours, thus eliminating maybe 2/3rds of the total. Or you could just not bother to read or ignore the topic altogether as GetOffYourGas suggests, which is by far the simplest solution and one that's totally under your control.
 
GRA said:
WetEV said:
GetOffYourGas said:
But this is a thread for a Fuel Cell vehicle. If you only want to read about the Leaf or EVs, why do you ever click on this thread?

Because I made the mistake of responding to trolling. Sorry.
How exactly is posting info on or discussing FCEVs in the "Other Electric Cars and Plug-in hybrids" sub-forum trolling, as they are unquestionably EVs? Here's a common definition of trolling:
An Internet troll is a member of an online social community who deliberately tries to disrupt, attack, offend or generally cause trouble within the community by posting certain comments, photos, videos, GIFs or some other form of online content.
As for huge numbers of posts, the majority of my posts on these topics is due to my replying to you and others who are anti-FCEV/H2. If you find the volume of posts offensive, don't bother to reply to my posts and I won't have any need to reply to yours, thus eliminating maybe 2/3rds of the total. Or you could just not bother to read or ignore the topic altogether as GetOffYourGas suggests, which is by far the simplest solution and one that's totally under your control.

Agreed. GRA has been on-topic.
 
Found it to be one of the rare real takes of the Mirai in particular, not 90% of the video that's just about how fuel cells work and that stuff that I've probably seen a thousand times. Really great. Also, I'm happy he didn't remark on the looks of the car per se - much like the original Leaf, you had no choice back then. If you wanted to drive electric, you HAD to drive something that made you look like a chump, and that has been the Mirai's predicament too - so not much use harping on it.

Also, it's been 4 years since the launch of this car and it's still getting decent coverage.

Really happy with that video, even though it ended on the predictable sad note with regards to the eventual fate of FCEVs.
 
LOL... how are those Mirai sales doing guys?? Getting close to Tesla or ANY BEV sales?? :lol:

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