Super changes to Supercharger network, EV sales set to spike in Q4, and more
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Welcome to quick charge to november twenty seven, twenty twenty four, and i'm your host job orus. Big news today are all the change is being made at tesla supercharger stations. Tesla adding longer cables in more to supercharge as non tesla E S.

Complicate matters, in north america, tesla has been opening up the super charger network to electric vehicles from other automatic ers for the Better part of the year. Things have been moving slowly, and there are a few reasons for that. First of all, elon fired tesla's entire supercharger team earlier this year, and the company had to rebuild IT, including hiring back some former employees.

That has significantly slowed things down. But tesla also had to take things a bit solar because non tesla ebs using the super charger network complicate things by necessity. We've previously reported on the fact that many charge ports are located different locations on the vehicles.

Then they are on tesla vehicles, which places the ports on the back of the driver side of the vehicle that forces those E, D. Drivers to park in awkward ways, sometimes blocking another charging stall when they are plugged into a supercharger. Longer cables at super charger stations are expected to fix some of that, but tesla has been slowed to deploy its new vie for locations which are equipped significantly longer cables than before.

Tesla has now released an update on the situation and how is addressing the problem. First, it's making stall availability more accurate than ever. The latest test of software update improves the accuracy of stall availability.

The estimate we can detect when another evy with a charge port located somewhere other than the rear left or front right is plugged into a short tail super charges stall. This update ensures no more over promising of tolerability, so you can travel with confidence. We will also continuously refine this algorithm to be as accurate as possible, including exact site mapping and faster refreshing of solvable increasing number of longer cables.

Longer cables mean the v four post can serve all port locations. In the next eighteen months, we planned to have more long cables than short table supercharger modifying sites to avoid block spaces. We have modified over fifteen hundred sites, so the drivers never have to use more than two charging spaces to charge increasing store availability for all and finally, encouraging the best charge port locations.

Since opening up the supercharger network in europe in twenty twenty one, we've encouraged car manufacturers to transition charge port locations to the rare left or front right. This provides seamless compatibility with over thirty thousand short cable super charges available to other ebs globally. So tesla is doing a lot to make sure the charging experience gets Better for its customers, and they're doing even more to make sure that charging experience gets Better in the winter.

Tesla has just added direct charge port defrosting options just in time for winter, not a tesla APP, which tracks tesla software updates, is noting that some tesla vehicles are now getting the specific option to activate the charge port heater. With the latest software update, tesla has finally added a solution to this problem. You can now manually turn on the charge port heater by going into controls service charge port here.

However, the feature is not available on all vehicles. It's only appearing in the release notes for a very small secondary vehicles. We've confirmed that he is showing up on a twenty twenty four model x in some twenty three model wise on tesla software update twenty twenty four forty four three one.

The change is coming just in time for cold weather and shouldn't able owners to target the short when needed, increasing efficiency. And we take a lot of criticism for our coverage of tesla head electric, but we always want to give credit or credit is do. And they're innovating to make the lives of their customers Better.

Another company that innovates to make the lives of its customers Better is blue edi, and we are very excited to be sponsored by blue dy all this month. Blue ti, of course, a leading provider of sustainable energy solutions, specializing important power stations, solar generators and energy storage systems. As a provider of dependable and portable energy solutions, bloody has become an industry leader with the presence in over one hundred countries.

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We love the stuff they're doing. They obviously love the stuff we're doing. We're excited to keep that partnership going. But while we're excited to keep this partnerships going there, other partnerships that seem to be slowing down, especially in light of this months recent election, total has pausing their new york offshore wind project after the trump win.

Total s offshore wind project is called attentive energy, eighty four thousand three hundred thirty two acre area, fifty four miles from its news point to new york and forty two miles from its nearest point to new jersey. Attentive energy has the potential to generate three thousand megatons of clean energy and power, nearly one million homes. The company won the rights to develop the ten of energy and a record setting auction in twenty twenty two and plan to bring IT online in the early twenty thirties.

But the project is in a very early phase and it's not permitted. IT hasn't filed a construction and Operations plan with the U. S. Department of interior, and that review process can take at least three years, which would be particularly chAllenging, if not impossible, under an administration that has openly opposed the offshore wind industry.

Trump s has been a vocal critic of offshore wind and has repeatedly vowed on the campaign trail to target the industry with an executive order on his first day in office. His plans are ague, but probably relate to the sales and permitting. He's also chosen pro fossil fuel fracking elective Chris right as secretary of energy, all of which seems like bad news to the french multi national total, which is why IT seems to be holding off on that project.

But it's worth noting that not everyone is hitting the brakes because of trump. In fact, a lot of people are hitting the accelerator, petal. Especially people who are looking to buy an E V.

E V. Sales are set to surge across the country as buyers rushed to clean discounts that may disappear in twenty twenty five. We may see an increase in evy and plugging hybrid sales over the next few months as buyers move to take advantage of discounts, but that may disappear next year.

That's according iy chesbrough senior contain ist cox automotive and what is report earlier this month, trumps administration team was planning to kill off the seventy five hundred dollar federal tax credit for clean car buyers. Jasbir explained that with fewer discounts on the line, buyers are expected to take advantage of them while they are still being offered, leading to quote, robust activity through the end of the year. In october, E, V, sales in the U.

S. Reached a milestone with another hundred and six thousand one hundred fifty five units sold last month. Over one million E. S. Have now been handed over to buyers, and we expect to see more than ten percent of national market penetration sometime in november, if not cease.

And it's important to keep in mind that while the federal tax credit may be going away, other states like california and illinois are stepping up with the rebates of their own, as are a number of utility companies nationwide working to incentivize the transition to electric power. So very exciting stuff. But whenever we talk about E S, whatever we talk about expanding the electrification and e ability, we have to talk about microbes and bikes.

But the bike that I want to talk to about now is not so much about getting around. It's about getting around and around and around. We are course talking about the huffy electric dream machine, which is available for thirty percent after in its black friday sales event.

Puffy by schools, of course, is a household bike brand name and immobility innovator. The company is celebrating one hundred and thirty years in the segment, and half these bikes are sold across thousands of retail locations, shipping millions of bikes to customers throughout the U. S.

And forty additional international markets each year. The happy name is known for products that deliver writer comfort, style and durability. Whether you on a bike track, scooter or ride on, there's something for every member of the family to enjoy.

Since twenty nine, half has been calling riders together with the rally cry live, the ride, which encourages families to celebrate together, is by expLoring the outdoors a top. Its product of this lineup includes the new hoffe electric Green machine and a stogie electrified version of the classic drift track that healthy fans know in love. We actually tested this vehicle back in june.

The link of that into the showed tes really exciting stuff, and obviously a lot of fun. This powerhouse drift track is packed for thirty six balls of electric wer, and at two hundred and fifty one front, hot motor that lets writers reach exhilarating speeds of up to fifteen miles an hour. The new electric Green machine is available at a fy dotcom at just under six hundred dollars.

However, you can use promo code electric G M at check out for thirty percent off your purchase. Valid on the Green machine. Only half these black friday deals are available now through the link in the description below, but only until december eighth, so act quickly while supplies last were obvious.

Ly, very excited to be working with coffee on this. And if you're looking for that special something to put under the tree for someone, man, you cannot go wrong with that Green machine, and of course, targeted specifically of my wife. I want want to make that happen.

Now we're having fun talking about these great bikes, these great deals that you can get as a electric, greater and quick charge listener. But it's import. Remember what this show is really all about, what is about electrification and the decarbonising of energy, transportation and utilities.

And that's why we like to end every show. Talking about that today is no different. We are talking about renewable energy powering twenty four percent of the U. S. Electrical group throughout the first three quarters of twenty twenty four, according to the E I S.

Electric power monthly report, which includes through the end of september twenty four, solar power generation, including both utility scale and rooftop insulation, shot up by twenty five percent compared to the first nine months of twenty twenty three. Utility scale solar grew even faster, up thirty point one percent, while small scale solar, mostly roofed up, increased by sixteen point two percent. Combined solar contributed more than seven percent of the total electricity generated in the U.

S. So far this year. Zoom in on september, utility scale solar generation group of twenty nine percent compared to september twenty three, and rooftop solar client by fourteen point two percent.

Combined solar generated seven and a half percent of all of america's electricity. Last month, small scale solar made up nearly thirty percent of all solar generated from january to september and provided two percent of the nation's electricity. Interestingly, small scale soler is now producing almost double the electricity of utility scale biomass, more than five times that of either geothermal or petroleum based power.

Wind power also saw strong growth so far this year. From january to september, wind output was up six point six percent compared to last year. Wind still holds the top spot among renewable, making up nine point nine percent of total U.

S. Electric generation for the first nine months of twenty twenty four. That's all we've got for the day, november twenty seventh that you celebrate thanksgiving tomorrow. Hope you have a great one and enjoy your weekend. Be sure to like and subscribes you don't miss any more of the exclusive deals being offered to electric greeters and quick charge listers, and we ll see you back again soon.