photovoltaics and EVs (was Hydrogen fuel debunked)

["Peter VanDerWal" <peter_v@primenet.com>]

>Again, marvelous for stockholders, but, perhaps I would like to use those
>same photovoltaics to EITHER produce electricity OR hydrogen, to get off
the
>weekly
>payment and keep my EV rolling.  So long as they control key patents, there
>will be no opportunity.  They intend to keep their ICE oil customers and
all
>the new EV customers applying to them weekly to be allowed fuel.  And it is
>legal.
>



Ok folks this is getting silly.  Let's think about this for a moment.

The average person drive 12,000 miles per year or roughly 33 miles per day.
For fairly efficient EV that would require about 10kwh worth of PVs.  If we
assume that the PVs only cost 1/4 of what they do today that is still almost
$5,000 worth of PVs.

12,000 miles per year in a car that gets 40mpg of gas (a fairly efficient
ICE to match our fairly efficient EV) that's 300 gallons of gas or $450 if
gas costs $1.50 per gallon.

That means that they would have to sell us gas for over 12 years to equal
the cost of one set of PVs (at 1/4 their current price) that will only last
us 15-20 years.

This means they could means they could make MORE money selling us cheap PVs
that they can selling us gas, and they'd make it TODAY not 12 years in the
future.  So this idea that they are keeping PV prices high to force us to
buy more gas is nonsense.