Matt Awesome via EV wrote:
Ya gotta think, the crossover between people who use 10x the national average of electricity, as much energy as the rest of their entire block, and people who drive EVs, would drive EVs, or would even care about the monetary savings... is probably exactly zero.
It's not that simple. There are huge variations, so the "average" doesn't necessarily apply to all that many people. There are rich people with Teslas that use huge amounts of electricity in their McMansions. There are all-electric homes that use a huge amount of electricity because they don't have gas.
So, I'm not sure how much value there is in such an extreme off-case.
The statistics are slippery. The extremes don't make the case. But neither can you take the national average, and assume that everyone is like that, right in the middle.
I think each person's situation is a special case. They have to come up with solutions that work for their particuar situation -- not rely on what "everybody does", because that can easily be wrong for them.
Take the situation for leaving lights on. It seems to me (from observing my friends and family, and driving around the neighborhood) that each household has one of two strategies:
1. They don't bother to turn lights off. Every light in the house seems to be left on.
2. They obsessively turn lights off. The whole house is dark except for one or two rooms.
So I don't see a "normal" distribution. I don't see houses (or businesses, for that matter) with half the lights on at night. Each is at one extreme or the other.
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