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  • Home battery banks are a thing. EVs also work. We are moving towards virtual power plants and micro grids just that most power grids were not designed for power consumers to also be power generators. They are working through the technical standards like OCPP. ...

    The large-scale electrification of vehicles, fleets, and marine ports presents a threat to the grid, and as such it is crucial to bring chargers into the equation of energy demand and response systems. The combination of the OCPP with the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) protocol or the Open Smart Charging Protocol (OSCP) turns a charger into a flexibility provider that can react to changes in demand response (DR) within a distributed energy resource (DER) energy ecosystem. Accordingly, an uninformed charging process can be converted into a smart technique, which is able to throttle or postpone a charging process based on currently and locally available grid capacity.

  • US To Investigate "Security Concerns" Involving Chinese Electric Cars - CleanTechnica
  • And do you think that inspection has been done at that level for the past 30 years for all consumer electronics? USA buying stuff from China ain't new.

    It's called chain of custody. Most people use software. Especially phishing.

  • US To Investigate "Security Concerns" Involving Chinese Electric Cars - CleanTechnica
  • EVs are not spies. China gets more intel from former government employees than they do from people's cell phones or TikTok. Indeed is used for spying more than anything because people advertise their experience and makes it super easy for spies to find who to contact.

    You don't see spies sneaking around at night breaking into cars to access info stored on the cars computer. When was the last hack of legacy auto servers with telemetry data?

  • US To Investigate "Security Concerns" Involving Chinese Electric Cars - CleanTechnica
  • I have a crazy idea, hang on with me here.

    USA : So you want to sell cars in the number 2 car market?

    China : Sure.

    USA : But what about all the spying you want to do?

    China : We don't want to spy on drivers.

    USA : Bullshit.

    China : OK how about this. We build a car with no capability of spying. EV with 100kwh, USB port, and big screen. It would be super low priced and undercut legacy auto because they cannot make one.

    USA : No. And now that you mention it we are bumping up tariffs just in case.

    If spying is the issue then like safety it can go through security certification as well as crash safety certification. But I don't think spying is the real issue at hand here. I have an ebike with Chinese electronics, motor, and batteries. Pretty sure it doesn't spy on me and yet it is still highly usable for transportation.

    If people want spying capability they can buy the more expensive option from legacy auto. After decades and decades of blocking EVs this is just delay to get legacy auto onboard with EVs. It's a bad idea.

  • Biden’s climate law fines oil companies for methane pollution. The bill is coming due. Recent research suggests the IRA’s methane fee could batter the oil and gas industry to the tune of $1 Billion+
  • Diversified, which has become the largest owner of oil and gas wells in the U.S., has some 70,000 such old and potentially leaky wells — making it potentially one of the biggest methane emitters in the industry as well.

    According to Geofinancial, Diversified would be liable for as much as $184 million if its annual excess methane emissions are equivalent to what it released over the year ending in September 2023. While the satellite results are a snapshot in time and contain some uncertainty, the overall finding that Diversified is probably facing catastrophically steep methane fees likely holds regardless of the potential variation.

  • Israel vows to 'finish the job' in Gaza as War Cabinet member threatens a Ramadan deadline for Rafah
  • Total War.

    The term was coined by a general during the American Civil War and has been defined as "A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded."

  • Elon Musk is inviting Chinese EV car parts makers to Mexico to supply his big Tesla factory planned there, and Washington is freaking out
  • China already got what they need from Tesla. China is the number 1 car market. Number 1 in EVs. Number 1 in batteries.

    BYD and Tesla are the top selling EVs to the world.

    GM discontinued their best selling EV.

    I suspect Tesla will work with BYD and CATL to make low priced entry level EVs. They will do this in Mexico. Not USA.

    Meanwhile Borgwarner just signed with BYD.

  • BYD mulls EV plant in Mexico as an 'export hub' to the US and overseas markets
  • Used Teslas have come down in price.

    If China gets close to selling in USA then another law or tariff will continue to keep them out.

    In the meantime China will continue to sell EVs to the world. Except USA, of course.

  • BYD is coming for Europe—but high labor costs, connectivity issues, and stubbornly loyal customers might trip up the Warren Buffett-backed EV maker that’s leaving competitors in a ‘state of shock’
  • They already shook up the industry. This is why auto makers are interested in making EVs after decades of telling people that they don't want EVs. China, the world's largest car market, is saturated with EVs. Now China is exporting to countries that don't have as many EVs as China.

    It's very similar to what Toyota did decades ago. Create a good product and expand.

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