They can't even power them because the electrical capacity doesn't exist on the grid.

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* To Hell with the current administration, which gutted grid investment, gutted charger investment, gutted renewable energy, gutted EV subsidies and rolled back fuel efficiency mandates * China is going to end the US auto industry the moment we open the door and we're going to deserve it * That said, a focus on PHEV and HV technology makes sense in the US. Hybrids are well known designs now and simply make sense, as well as being powerful.

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These are all great points. Also, the expansion of charging stations still has grid roadblocks. Range anxiety can be fixed with having more charging stations, but our grid isn’t equipped to handle that large of an expansion. I want an EV so bad, but I drive a lot for work and my 2019 Ford Fusion Hybrid is perfect to get better range and use less gas.

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That's how it goes man.....gotta get back on the grid

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Id like to go off grid and live off the land. Seems peaceful and alot less stressful. Find me a nice stretch of wilderness. Spend the winters rummaging thru summer camps and seasonal homes for food and supplies. Spend the summers building and maintaining my cabin from the supplies I gathered. Lazy days at a near by stream skinny dipping and gooning. Late nights sitting in the daily updating retards on my adventures. I could totally do it. Going off grid and living off the land would be the life for me

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Meta finally capitulated on the metaverse now that they've got a new kind of smoke to hype up. But i take your point, I missed that announcement tbh. Some of it is capitulation true, still hybrids don't make much sense now that EVs have 300+ mile ranges, and with electric prices becoming high and volatile a pivot to grid battery makes sense. Keep head down, get good at batteries and then once Trump is out go all electric.

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Their battery storage business will just be the inventory of unsold f-150 lightnings with jumper cables daisy chained to each other. Great for mobile energy transport when you need to power off the grid locations or when Texas has a state wide blackout every time the snow hits.

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A lot of heavy equipment takes this approach. It would be very cool if you could run a welder or an air compressor for more remote work and/or use it to power your house off grid or during an outage.

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Yeah. Maybe. I’m just stubborn I guess. Their valuation makes no sense unless they’re poised to own almost all of ride hailing and grid scale batteries in the US.

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Arizona doesn't have the water or the power grid to support them though..

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