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1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

That is one of the biggest issues with EVs.  Most people probably can use EVs with no problems and recharge while they are sleeping, or at work, but for those that like to visit those huge balls of twine, or whatever other site off the beaten path have to plan ahead.  The other thing I constantly see with EVs is that they always seem to be using the suburban/rural family model.  That is to say, the family living in a house with a garage for their vehicles.  It seems to me, with all my global travels, that a lot of people do not have dedicated parking spaces and live in high rise, or in the case of Russia, Soviet era flats.

 

That being said, it would be great if they can commercialize this battery.  It may take a few years, but the battery leap would be enormous.

Giant Ball of Twine

 

Only 80 miles between the worlds largest ball of twin and the Tesla Stn in Salina, KS

 

 

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6 minutes ago, ccneat said:

Get off of Sprint, Problem solved :)

Here in the West Coast I have found that Verizon usually on average has the best signal for Centrl/SoCal, Arizona, and Nevada. We use them alot for seismic monitoring sites.

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Just now, cyberfx1024 said:

Here in the West Coast I have found that Verizon usually on average has the best signal for Centrl/SoCal, Arizona, and Nevada. We use them alot for seismic monitoring sites.

There are a lot of places where there are zero folks in the census block

 

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16 minutes ago, ccneat said:

There are a lot of places where there are zero folks in the census block

 

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That is so very true, trust me I travel enough around the SW to know that. But on average Verizon is better than Sprint and usually has service most places. 

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6 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

That is so very true, trust me I travel enough around the SW to know that. But on average Verizon is better than Sprint and usually has service most places. 

If you look at that picture of Alaska upside down it looks like US vomiting on Russia.

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56 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

That is so very true, trust me I travel enough around the SW to know that. But on average Verizon is better than Sprint and usually has service most places. 

T-Mobile is close behind, the proposed Sprint TMO merger will pose a thread to T and VZ

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27 minutes ago, ccneat said:

T-Mobile is close behind, the proposed Sprint TMO merger will pose a thread to T and VZ

I was actually hoping Verizon was gonna come up to Canada, but Canadian incumbents (Big 3/Robellus) pitched a huge fit and Verizon said screw it.

 

It's funny too because the Big 3 share towers throughout Canada.. if I recall correctly, Telus owns the towers in the west, Rogers or Bell in the East.

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10 minutes ago, IAMX said:

I was actually hoping Verizon was gonna come up to Canada, but Canadian incumbents (Big 3/Robellus) pitched a huge fit and Verizon said screw it.

 

It's funny too because the Big 3 share towers throughout Canada.. if I recall correctly, Telus owns the towers in the west, Rogers or Bell in the East.

The Economics of Cell towers as a national network in Canada is problematic, you have a lot of area with low population density punctuated by several dense metro areas with high demand.  That has turned the US carriers off of attempting a merger.  5G may be a game changer for the Canada market, High penetration in dense populations and smaller broadcast stations that can be attached to phone poles in exurban and rural areas.

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10 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Personally, I am not a big critic of EVs, they can be very fun to drive, but do the buyers of these vehicles deserve a tax break for supposedly being "green"?

 

In the quest for greater mileage per charge, electric car batteries are getting much bigger. But since battery production is energy consuming and to some extent cancels out climate benefit, it is vital that production becomes more energy efficient and that the use of fossil electricity is minimized. This according to a report that IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute has carried out on behalf of the Swedish Energy Agency and the Swedish Transport Administration.

 

– Electric and hybrid cars have major advantages over petrol and diesel vehicles, especially when it comes to local emissions and noise levels. But it is also important to assess the whole picture and to minimize environmental impact in the production stage, says Lisbeth Dahllöf, researcher at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.

Together with colleague Mia Romare, she has reviewed the literature on greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption during the production and recycling of lithium-ion automotive batteries for light vehicles.

According to the authors of the report, the production of lithium-ion batteries for light electric vehicles releases on average 150-200 kilos of carbon dioxide equivalents per kilowatt-hour battery. One of the smallest electric cars on the market, Nissan Leaf, uses batteries of approx. 30 kWh; many new models have batteries of 60 and 100 kWh. An electric car with a 100kWh battery has thus emitted 15-20 tons of carbon dioxide even before the vehicle ignition is turned on. This calculation assumes a 50-70 per cent fossil share in the electricity mix.

– This means that you shouldn’t buy an electric car with a larger battery than is necessary. For a sustainable future, it is important that the production of electric car batteries is as energy-efficient as possible and made with electricity that is either completely without, or with a very low, carbon emission, says Mia Romare.

 

http://www.ivl.se/english/startpage/top-menu/pressroom/press-releases/press-releases---arkiv/2017-06-21-new-report-highlights-climate-footprint-of-electric-car-battery-production.html

 

 

An electric car with a 100kWh battery has thus emitted 15-20 tons of carbon dioxide even before the vehicle ignition is turned on

 

Question:  How does the Energy foot print of an EV vary from a standard vehicle?   Because if it is a small enough increment that would change the calculation.  

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1 hour ago, ccneat said:

The Economics of Cell towers as a national network in Canada is problematic, you have a lot of area with low population density punctuated by several dense metro areas with high demand.  That has turned the US carriers off of attempting a merger.  5G may be a game changer for the Canada market, High penetration in dense populations and smaller broadcast stations that can be attached to phone poles in exurban and rural areas.

It's funny because the technology (speed/thoroughput) is far outpacing the data caps they have (restrictive data was something new to me moving here). Insane ROI.. great for company, bad for consumer. CRTC focused on forcing companies to unlock phones for free rather than make their mobile data caps more reasonable.

 

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