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hyundai paid for my charger and some of the install cost and i got a tax credit too, but most importantly, they recommended the electrician to use, and it worked out great. all easier than i'd imagined. and you're right, in most people's minds it's something they don't want to deal with. but once it's done, being able to charge at home is so great. i charge every 3 days typically. i plug it in when i get home and it automatically starts at midnight to get a small credit from my electric company.
that's because their ev and toyota's cousin, are duds. terrible range, slow, front wheel drive. bad.
how much of a discount on the rate were you getting? what's crazy is the electric company clearly knows when you're charging your car(s). they're the biggest power users in your home.
yes, for some reason my iphone's giving me heat advisories for norcal and it's not a saved location in the weather app.
Yeah it's been hot the last few days here. I believe tomorrow is the last day of being over 100 F. It will be in the upper 90's and cool down by Tuesday. I have precooling set to cool the car 10 minutes before I leave work so when I get in it's nice and comfy
how much of a discount on the rate were you getting? what's crazy is the electric company clearly knows when you're charging your car(s). they're the biggest power users in your home.
I get $0.04 off per kWh. Combined generation and deliver service charge is $0.049949 per kwh off peak. It's a nice discount!
i lived in LA and it got pretty hot down in SoCal but dry heat is nothing compared to 90(+) degrees and 95% humidity here that we can get.
90F at 95% humidity is a heat index of 127F. The highest heat index in Knoxville TN throughout all of recorded history is 105F, on July 1, 2012. The highest heat index ever recorded anywhere in the US was on July 13, 1995 in Appleton, Wisconsin. A 101F ambient temperature, 71% humidity, and an astonishing dewpoint of 90F led to a heat index of 149F.
I believe you if you tell me the temperature hit 90F. I also believe you if you say the humidity hit 95%. But they didn't happen together, at least not in Knoxville.
^^^ heat index (or "feels like") might be the dumbest measure ever. here right now:
anything to make it seem worse than it is so weather people can get clicks.
And yet, 85 degrees in the summer where you are tends to feel far more oppressive than the same temp in the summer where I am, so clearly the ambient temperature is not telling the whole story. Dew point is incredibly important to how a given temperature "feels" to a human, but almost no one understands it. Heat index is what captures that distinction and makes different climes comparable.
i lived in LA and it got pretty hot down in SoCal but dry heat is nothing compared to 90(+) degrees and 95% humidity here that we can get.
We live about 40 minutes from the coast, I'm in the South Bay in the valley. The more North you go, the closer to the Bay, and the cooler it gets. My office is in Fremont, it's at least 3 to 4 degrees cooler than San Jose. It's mostly a dry heat, but humidity is higher than normal. We usually experience these heat waves a few weeks a year in the summer
It’s not just that, either, because of the geography here with ocean, mountain and valley in the Bay Area we get some insane differences in weather with local microclimates. It can be 30 degrees or more warmer in silicon valley than up in SF which is maybe just 45 mins or so north of here when traffic permits or the coast which is maybe 30 mins over the Santa Cruz mountains.
90F at 95% humidity is a heat index of 127F. The highest heat index in Knoxville TN throughout all of recorded history is 105F, on July 1, 2012.
I was there!!!! It's actually a funny story, that was a dry heat and it wasn't even bad. All (most) of my friends and I had a lot less money then so nobody had a private pool but a few of us had houses and we put an inflatable kiddy pool in the driveway with a sprinkler, I still remember the picture lmao. This was before I owned a home or was even married for that matter.
Originally Posted by geko29
I believe you if you tell me the temperature hit 90F. I also believe you if you say the humidity hit 95%. But they didn't happen together, at least not in Knoxville.
Will you believe me if I tell you that summers here can get so awful with the (maybe not constant 95%) humidity that it might as well be 125??? LOL. Windows in my house fog up every night in the dead of summer.
I'll take Las Vegas heat over Knoxville heat all day long and twice on Sundays.
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