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@ATXZJ 100% agree The greenest car there is, is the one you didn’t buy…I bought my EV when my 15yo Mazdaspeed3 (loved that car!) started having major issues. At the time it just so happened Tesla was shipping cars and not bending you over like Ford and Toyota were doing. I was also sick of ICE and their problems. As an engineer, I know reliability is increased when I reduce the number of parts. Also, I’m still a car guy and one hit of dual motor crack pipe and it’s impossible to go back to anything else. Call that my selfish treat when I try to sacrifice in a lot of other areas. I am not trading this car in 3 years. I’m in it for the long run just like all my previous cars. Similarly to cars, the greenest human is the one that wasn’t born. No arguing the greenest car for the average Texan is a PHEV. For other places (geo or hydro) it’s an EV. A gas F150 is greener than a Hummer EV. You are halfway there in finding facts. Keep digging and crunch the numbers yourself don’t just believe your sources. For example I agree with you for me with PEC it doesn’t make sense to buy my own solar panels, but that’s because the system is rigged. They pay at 5.3 cents/kWh while I buy at 9.3 and they pay me the same 5.3 cents even if they are buying from dirty carbon peaker plants at $1500/kWh. In Texas solar would make a lot of sense in the summer because it’s locally generated and locally used and reduces peak demand from dirty coal plants. It’s also not necessary to worry about storage either because most people will be using more than hey produce when it is more needed. I have had thoughts to run for the PEC board to change this rigged system. It would make much more sense to encourage distributed solar and buying at 9.3c/kWh You’re a car guy so you must know the Engineering Explained channel. He has a lot of factual content with whiteboard calculations. I encourage you to watch his videos on all kinds of automotive subjects. As to the earth’s climate cycles and regurgitation of George Carlin’s “the earth will shake us off like a bunch of fleas” yeah fine but global climate destabilization and the push to fight the tipping point is about saving humans not the earth in a geologic scale. to bring this thread back on point, e-bikes are good. I am definitely considering one for commuting.

@14:49 is the real reason our government wants us in EV's. Lord Elon himself explaining that totally solar cars are not possible. The whole green movement is just another grift being propped up by lobbyists to extract our money. Is climate change real? absolutely. Do we have an impact on climate change? yes. The real question is how big of an impact? how is it measured? All we see are people crying we need to do something about climate change right now! The earth has been around for 4.5 billion years the Industrial Revolution began 260 years ago, to believe we've had a significant enough impact to cause significant climate change in that amount of time seams ridiculous and most likely is. Currently the earth is greener than it has been and even greener than it was 20 years ago which is a good thing more trees more O2, trees are the natural air scrubbers of the planet yet we continually cut trees down for the sake of progress and money. Like @ATXZJ mentioned the earth has gone through many ice ages and many warm periods and will continue to so totally disregarding us. Every so often the earth turns into a blender resetting itself and eliminating most of the life on the planet in the process, we have no power or control over any of it. And if we did we would f**k that up as well.

Oh, one more thing. Being green and keeping things for a while sometimes goes against financial or life best interests. I tracked my MS3’s expenses throughout its 15 years with me. All repairs, maintenance, gas, fluids, etc. most big repairs done by me. I averaged $300 a month for the life of it including interest (low interest paid off in 2.5 years) opportunity cost, etc for something that I drove 8k miles a year or so on average and mostly sat around for 23.5 hours per day. Incidentally, what broke me—from the car repair enthusiast perspective—as changing the clutch on that car: turbo FWD with big transaxle and specialized components with no lift…it was a 2 weekend nightmare. The $1700 quote sounded pretty good when I was in the middle of it.

I went to Korea and toured the LG Solar Plant there, they have a 'gun' that launches frozen ice balls (hail) at the panels simulating..... Storms in TX to test their durability. So a very high quality LG is designed for hail, a medium quality Polycrystalline probably cant take it.

Hail don't care.

I think all the warnings and disaster proclamations ("Buy extra food! Stores will run out!!" etc) are going to be another Y2K bust I do believe that traffic on 290 will be a nightmare though.