You can always keep the furnace ducting with a undersized heat pump then put in a secondary system in the bedrooms to do temperature control in those upstairs rooms. One head per room. Bedroom temperature control is so nice for quality of life. That will take the load off the central unit.

A pro can tell you more. Ask about creative solutions. Or maybe you can move enough air and it doesn’t matter.

Greed of corporations will keep the price inflated.

Can I get you to acknowledge that we're looking at an area currently occupied by 20-ish percent of the human population becoming next to uninhabitable without constant and energy intensive airconditioning? To me that fits any definition of catastrophic, regardless of where you live on the planet.

We can't keep on moving the goalpost on climate action, not so many years ago the discourse was that we had to limit the increase to 1.5degrees to avoid the worst effects.

I think people fail to realize how deep the bench really is and that there are lots of people not only willing but wanting to help people but they are never asked. I'm glad this young man has someone to play video games and hang out with.

Citation: Math

Chevy Bolt: $26K

Comparative ICE: $26K

Average commute: 41 miles a day.

EV

Average price of electricity: $0.16/kwh

A typical EV will average around 4 miles per kwh.

Cost of commute per year EV: $426

Maintenance cost per mile for EV (according to FOEERE): $0.06

Maintenance cost per year EV: $640

Total EV Annual Cost: $1066

ICE

Average price gas: $3.41/gallon

Average MPG of car: 35 mpg

Cost of commute per year gas: $1038

Maintenance cost per mile gas (according to FOEERE): $0.10

Maintenance cost per year gas: $1066

Total ICE Annual Cost: $2104

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The ICE on average costs about $1038 more per year than an EV. If you have solar, that gap widens even more.

Even without solar, if you swapped the ICE for a hybrid the EV is still cheaper by quite a bit.

Faith in humanity restored. If even for just a moment.

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This is the absolute best!

I hope they also have lithium mines in country to support that

She said she even got responses as far away as Australia and London. There are good men out there ❤️

Ideally the commoners will stick to their local areas utilizing public transit or bikes/ebikes. Never leaving their town. While the ruling class and elites will continue commuting with their private jets and motorcades of ICE vehicles.

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Dat poon worn out bruh

If you think replacing EV batteries is common, you're drinking the oil koolaid. Current generation EV batteries will last the lifetime of the car, with many manufacturers having battery warranties in the 150k mile range. There isn't a single ICE car company on the planet warrantying their engines for 150k miles.

How long has ICE technology been around in mass production?

You really are hell-bent on comparing apples to oranges. EV prices continue to drop. There are several options for EVs in the mid $20K range. Add in the fact that EVs require a fraction of the maintenance and that $10K or so price difference starts looking pretty small.

Every new EV doesn't start at 66k either. What's your point?

What are you talking about? Battery packs/drive train are warrantied for just as long, if not longer, than ICE engines.

No, you are disingenuously comparing two dissimilar markets and misapplying statistics to try and validate your argument.

This is an example of how to use statistics incorrectly. You are comparing a restricted market that was originally targeted more towards the luxury market with initial offerings to a highly competitive market loaded with tons of low-end models.

Tesla literally made up 2/3 of the market for EVs. That's going to give a ridiculously skewed metric when trying to compare against the broad ICE market.

Clearopathra is absolutely brilliant

Never owned an electric car. Maybe it's time to look into one.

This is just wrong. Also, the subs rules are here for a reason.

I've had an EV for less than a year, and I've already seen so many more models become available and more advertising. I haven't seen a whole lot of new charging infrastructure, though. There's going to be a lot of frustrated people out there if sales pick up rapidly.

Will to!

If the history books say Putin stopped global warming, it’s gonna be really confusing for future social studies students.