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Ron Baron thinks Tesla is headed towards being a two trillion dollar company.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/14/tesla-wi........company-says-billionaire-ron-baron-.html
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Yosemite Sam1 wrote:Reisender wrote:That’s what happens here in BC. Cheap and abundant hydro (literally all the power for the province) and little incentive to go solar. I do see it more and more often but mostly on houses, not as much on businesses and rarely commercial. My guess is the numbers don’t pan out. The actual demand is not going up as B.C. hydro is spending lots of money helping public and private customers modernize and reduce power use thru technology. They also have another large Hydro project coming on line in the next 3 years so I don’t think the numbers for solar will change soon. Just a guess. I’m not up on this stuff.
CA maybe on it's way to carbon-free energy source as they now require that new houses to have solar panels. New buildings and even. retrofitted ones would have solar panels in their roofs and parking areas. Seen them too in public. and private schools.
Makes sense to go hydro for water rich area.
Yah. No shortage of the wet stuff here. It’s mostly the mountain snow fields that act like a huge battery here. From what I gather the need for the site C dam was questionable as power conservation and wind were arguably cheaper. But the wheels have been in motion for 30 years to build it and it’s hard to shut that down. It’s a provincially owned utility, meaning it belongs to the people so although there has been opposition to it, generally speaking it haS public support. They are now looking at selling the surplus on the grid to neighbouring provinces and states. Alberta is looking to decarbonize their grid so there is a market there although they have multiple projects of their own on the go.
Interesting times.
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Reisender wrote:That’s what happens here in BC. Cheap and abundant hydro (literally all the power for the province) and little incentive to go solar. I do see it more and more often but mostly on houses, not as much on businesses and rarely commercial. My guess is the numbers don’t pan out. The actual demand is not going up as B.C. hydro is spending lots of money helping public and private customers modernize and reduce power use thru technology. They also have another large Hydro project coming on line in the next 3 years so I don’t think the numbers for solar will change soon. Just a guess. I’m not up on this stuff.
CA maybe on it's way to carbon-free energy source as they now require that new houses to have solar panels. New buildings and even. retrofitted ones would have solar panels in their roofs and parking areas. Seen them too in public. and private schools.
Makes sense to go hydro for water rich area.
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That’s what happens here in BC. Cheap and abundant hydro (literally all the power for the province) and little incentive to go solar. I do see it more and more often but mostly on houses, not as much on businesses and rarely commercial. My guess is the numbers don’t pan out. The actual demand is not going up as B.C. hydro is spending lots of money helping public and private customers modernize and reduce power use thru technology. They also have another large Hydro project coming on line in the next 3 years so I don’t think the numbers for solar will change soon. Just a guess. I’m not up on this stuff.
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Reisender wrote:time2roll wrote:Check it out. Looks like Giga 1 has a few more solar panels installed.
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If you look real close I think you can see Turtle up there completing the QC inspection ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/wink.gif "wink")
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They seem to add some once per year. I wonder if they’ll have solar on the Texas plant. If I recall my days on course there it was pretty sunny.
They put up 3 new apartment buildings a couple blocks from our house here in the Okanagan last year. I was driving on a road that overlooks them a few days ago and noticed that two of the three are covered in solar and it looks like they are prepping the third. Kinda new for this area as hydro is cheap cheap and I don’t think has been much incentive for it. They also seem to have a half dozen J1772 chargers for the residents and they are free. Kinda cool. Still, half a dozen chargers for 170 apts might be a stretch in about 10 years. EV growth is quick up here, or at least in this province.
In their. Sparks, NV giga, Tesla must not still be finding a good. ROI for the capital spending to add more solar panels on their roof because they are getting such good cheap electricity from NV Energy.
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time2roll wrote:Check it out. Looks like Giga 1 has a few more solar panels installed.
If you look real close I think you can see Turtle up there completing the QC inspection
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They seem to add some once per year. I wonder if they’ll have solar on the Texas plant. If I recall my days on course there it was pretty sunny.
They put up 3 new apartment buildings a couple blocks from our house here in the Okanagan last year. I was driving on a road that overlooks them a few days ago and noticed that two of the three are covered in solar and it looks like they are prepping the third. Kinda new for this area as hydro is cheap cheap and I don’t think has been much incentive for it. They also seem to have a half dozen J1772 chargers for the residents and they are free. Kinda cool. Still, half a dozen chargers for 170 apts might be a stretch in about 10 years. EV growth is quick up here, or at least in this province.
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Check it out. Looks like Giga 1 has a few more solar panels installed.
If you look real close I think you can see Turtle up there completing the QC inspection
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philh wrote:Reisender wrote:And of course lots of trucks coming from...well...everybody in the next couple years.
So nice to see more competition come into the market.
OEM's typically are typically on a 5 yr cycle. Tesla cycle is about 4 years, but they advertise 3 years. There's a LOT of new content coming.
Battery supply will play a role. I think GM will be building their own within a year or two. Tesla will be okay. I don’t know where ford or Rivian will be getting their batteries from. Maybe LG?
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Reisender wrote:And of course lots of trucks coming from...well...everybody in the next couple years.
So nice to see more competition come into the market.
OEM's typically are typically on a 5 yr cycle. Tesla cycle is about 4 years, but they advertise 3 years. There's a LOT of new content coming.
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time2roll wrote:Reisender wrote:But yah. Hefty maintenance schedule and huge difference in fuel costs. It is the unscheduled maintenance of that BMW that has people trading them in just a few years.
Meaning, breakdown? Lol.
My sister had a BMW. Her husband got exasperated when they were told they have to replace the whole assembly for $4,000. when only one of bearings was shot.
They sold it pronto and it's a barely 2 years.
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