The Coming Electric Vehicle Transformation: Impact on House Values

[Randolph Kinney]

Wonder if Bert knows who leads the world in batteries and EVs? It isn't California (source: WSJ)

A little-known Chinese company has become the world’s biggest maker of electric vehicle batteries. Beijing engineered a scenario that didn’t give the world much choice. China is by far the biggest EV market, and to boost its standing in the fast-growing industry, China began pressuring foreign auto makers to use locally-made batteries in the country several years ago. One company—Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd., known as CATL—was the only shop capable of producing them at scale. Auto makers weren’t pleased, but they fell in line. China’s dominance in EV batteries is a worrisome development for U.S. and European policy makers, who are increasingly wary of the Communist Party’s influence over new technologies and products, Trefor Moss reports.

 

[glenn walker]

Just a lot of hype, Nucleur power is and was the answer and could power all of California then dump those stupid electric cars and scooters in one big land fill and be done

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

then dump those stupid electric cars and scooters

I certainly have no quarrel with an electric car, or the hybrid - the oil patch used diesel electric rigs for 40 plus years. Big engines run huge generators and the entire rig ran on electric But no one pretended that this was 'saving the planet' because it was all done with a fossil fuel. The gas engine auto is as efficient as the pollution strangled diesel now. Our old diesel pickups got 18-24 mpg. Now one is lucky to get 12 mpg, has to have a turbo charger, and you have to add a special fluid (literally cow pee - urea) called DEF. DEF is expensive and necessary to keep the catalytic converter working. So how does reducing fuel efficiency actually help the environment? So the air coming out of the engine has a lower concentration of particles...really? But you are using two or three times the volume of air...it isn't doing anything but diluting the air and consuming more oxygen.

 

[RCA]

Huh? You the engineer doesn't know what base load is? Buy the book...she is a 'global warming' advocate. Do you not understand that if you depend upon solar only, you have 50% of the time the sun isn't shining... and in morning and evening it is low on the horizon? So you have only 1 renewable source in the night? Wind? How many times does the wind lay about sundown? SO where will the energy come from? It comes from base load. Base load is predominately fossil fuels which can be ramped up and down as demand varies. Since wind/solar can produce from 10% to less than 50% of their rated output on average, and can actually combined at night can go to zero...something has to be on demand. And thus you have to maintain the steam pressure to turn the turbines. Even if a plant is idled, the head of steam required must be maintained at a certain level. Many plants in the 1950s had their own steam generators because grid power was unreliable. Once grid power became reliable, these were abandoned. Now they wish they had them back. My father was boiler fireman at a Pet Milk plant. The plant idled all night. They switched to city utility power at night, but they maintained enough steam power to turn the generators in the morning. Musks energy boxes don't put out enough energy to run your house all day. Batteries are discussed in the book below. It is a very short term thing. Some people around here were out over a week when a tornado struck a couple weeks ago.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, .... a thousand times. Do you EVER read your sources and check their qualifications? Did you even read this book? What a joke.

First, the author is not exactly an engineer. Not by any stretch of the imagination. She is a CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST!

You won't even find the term "base load" in that book. NOT ONCE. What the frigging hell do you think we are to accept this kind of crap?

Her thesis by the way, is that the current infrastructure needs to be upgraded to support wind power: That the wind farms being built in Texas cannot get the power they generate to the grid because the necessary power lines don't exist and the system is not interested in expanding the existing grid infrastructure to support new wind farms.

Man, you are so off the wall, it's unbelievable. And you are an appraiser?

 

[James Micozzi]

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, .... a thousand times. Do you EVER read your sources and check their qualifications? Did you even read this book? What a joke.

First, the author is not exactly an engineer. Not by any stretch of the imagination. She is a CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST!

You won't even find the term "base load" in that book. NOT ONCE. What the frigging hell do you think we are to accept this kind of crap?

Her thesis by the way, is that the current infrastructure needs to be upgraded to support wind power: That the wind farms being built in Texas cannot get the power they generate to the grid because the necessary power lines don't exist and the system is not interested in expanding the existing grid infrastructure to support new wind farms.

Man, you are so off the wall, it's unbelievable. And you are an appraiser?

Oh Please. You put down engineering in your profile since you use it as a marketing tool for your website, Valuation Engineering. Does that mean you hold an engineering degree in Civil engineering, mechanical or electrical engineering as you seem to think that if a person does not have engineering degree then any opinion they have on that subject is not valid.

 

[George Hatch]

Less talking about each other and more talking about the subject at hand, please.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Why do Teslas catch fire when they hit something? Bueller? Anyone?

 

[Carnivore]

One problem they have in the mid-west - Icing https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/inductor/papers/iam9-5-49.pdf

 

[RCA]

Oh Please. You put down engineering in your profile since you use it as a marketing tool for your website, Valuation Engineering. Does that mean you hold an engineering degree in Civil engineering, mechanical or electrical engineering as you seem to think that if a person does not have engineering degree then any opinion they have on that subject is not valid.

Well, this should be common knowledge. But of course you don't know what you don't know, and after all you are not a STEM graduate. So here it is, FYI: Software engineers are typically degreed in computer science or mathematics. Many of the older software engineers like myself have degrees in mathematics - because most schools didn't have a separate program for computer science or software engineering 40-50 years ago. Many of the top software engineers have degrees in mathematics. My degree is in mathematics with a lot of computer science courses.

In particular, the hottest field for software engineers now is data mining - and that is mostly statistics, or mathematics. The best programs in computer science and software engineering are packed with courses in mathematics. Mathematics is, in fact, the most important subject for a software engineer.

And, one might observe that the top software engineers in the field have degrees in mathematics, such as Jon Skeet, Linus Torvalds, Donald Knuth and others. In fact, the current top software engineers in the field with degrees in computer science are younger (relative to my age) guys.

Donald Knuth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You also find software engineers with degrees in physics, engineering and other sciences. Physics is common - because there aren't that many jobs in physics for all the physics graduates - so they switch to computer science, - same for many engineering disciplines like civil engineering - there are more graduates than jobs, so they move to software engineering.

My official title at most of my jobs since the 1980s is "Sr. Software Engineer" or "Principal Software Engineer" --- or "Sr. Systems Engineer" (a Wells Fargo term). "Sr. Software Engineer" is the most common term and is very broad. Many companies rank the Software engineers: I, II, III, IV, V. Another title is "Software Architect" - but most software engineers prefer "Sr. Software Engineer" because it is fairly clear what that is, and a "Software Architect" may be somebody who doesn't really do any computer programming. but may in fact be a kind of incompetent who just manages the real thing.

 

[James Micozzi]

Well, this should be common knowledge. But of course you don't know what you don't know, and after all you are not a STEM graduate. So here it is, FYI: Software engineers are typically degreed in computer science or mathematics. Many of the older software engineers like myself have degrees in mathematics - because most schools didn't have a separate program for computer science or software engineering 40-50 years ago. Many of the top software engineers have degrees in mathematics. My degree is in mathematics with a lot of computer science courses.

In particular, the hottest field for software engineers now is data mining - and that is mostly statistics, or mathematics. The best programs in computer science and software engineering are packed with courses in mathematics. Mathematics is, in fact, the most important subject for a software engineer.

And, one might observe that the top software engineers in the field have degrees in mathematics, such as Jon Skeet, Linus Torvalds, Donald Knuth and others. In fact, the current top software engineers in the field with degrees in computer science are younger (relative to my age) guys.

Donald Knuth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You also find software engineers with degrees in physics, engineering and other sciences. Physics is common - because there aren't that many jobs in physics for all the physics graduates - so they switch to computer science, - same for many engineering disciplines like civil engineering - there are more graduates than jobs, so they move to software engineering.

My official title at most of my jobs since the 1980s is "Sr. Software Engineer" or "Principal Software Engineer" --- or "Sr. Systems Engineer" (a Wells Fargo term). "Sr. Software Engineer" is the most common term and is very broad. Many companies rank the Software engineers: I, II, III, IV, V. Another title is "Software Architect" - but most software engineers prefer "Sr. Software Engineer" because it is fairly clear what that is, and a "Software Architect" may be somebody who doesn't really do any computer programming. but may in fact be a kind of incompetent who just manages the real thing.

You make a lot of assumptions about people. That’s pretty arrogant. You don’t know anything about me or what I have done or haven’t done. Online searches are a joke. As you should know being a computer guy as you gregariously described above the term GIGO is definitely applicable to much of the information in the web concerning people’s personal data.