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Electric Car Charger

What You Need to Know About EV Chargers

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Your Fuel Source 2014

WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Your Fuel Source 2013    

 

Electric vehicles possess many advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) cars:           

    

“It’s remarkably liberating to produce my own energy, from my own house, that powers my car – without any hassles.  It’s also remarkably easy.  Our family has had solar panels on our roof saving energy and money since 2007.  Now, we take further advantage of that clean, self-produced energy by simply plugging the Volt into an outlet.  It literally takes seconds to plug in and receive up to 40 miles of clean, guilt-free energy.  Beyond that, our paradigm has shifted.  It seems odd, almost annoying, to need to take the time to get gas – to find a gas station, to get out, to pay, to stand there while fossil fuel is poured into the tank to be burned in a very inefficient way.  It’s so much simpler, values-consistent, and financially beneficial to simply plug into solar powered energy in my own garage.

 “Leasing our Leaf last summer to support our multiple daily trips to municipalities for permits processing was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made.  We drive our Leaf about XX miles/month and at XX cents/hour utility rate, it has saved us $XXX a month on fuel costs.  When we finishing installing our Ameren rebate-funded 35-kW solar array atop our new facility at 10330 Page Industrial Blvd this spring, we’ll be enjoying a solar-equivalent utility rate of less than 1¢/kwh for the building and driving the Leaf for about 5 miles/penny—I can’t think of a better way for a business to control operating expenses than with environmentally clean and low/fixed-cost mobility.  We can’t wait until EV vans and trucks become available on the market”

 

 

 “We bought our Volt in July 2013 and 9,000 miles and 6 months later, my wife has so fallen in love with the experience that she has not driven an “old fashioned” car since—we will never go back to a gasoline car again.  My wife enjoys the freedom from the financial constraint we used to have when driving our other cars to conduct life’s daily business, and I enjoy the freedom from environmental guilt that EVs bring to our lives, especially once we get our own solar array installed here on our Belleville home in March.  Perhaps most unexpected was the tangible feeling of increased freedom and independence we both immediately felt knowing our carbon-free driving costs were fixed and we could get out and enjoy life anytime we wanted to—the future is bright!”

 

SUMMARY:  Understanding that using solar energy to provide EV mobility doubles the IRR of going solar is compelling.  StraightUp Solar Tribe members are already driving guilt-free for 2₵/mile and to help spread the word, SUS will offer a free Level 2 Schneider Electric EV charger with each 3+ kW Illinois and 5+ kW Missouri residential solar sale through 1 April.   What are you waiting for?