Volvo claim an electric car takes 70,000 miles to pay back battery production emissions
This claim by Volvo is largely misguided and the reason, this rebuttal from Auke Hoekstra is detailed and gives the answers:
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How to choose the best solar and battery products for your home
How to choose the best solar and battery products for your home The best solar installations will generate renewable electricity for 25 years or more. But in a world of evolving options around batteries, solar panels and inverters, how should you go about selecting the best products for your home
Preventing Windscreen Wiper Wear (Model S)
For those who don’t mind a bit of DIY preventative maintenance on their out-of-warranty Model S then you might be interested to learn that the windscreen wiper mechanism need not be an inevitable, high mileage >50,000 miles replacement. The offside wiper spindle is prone to wearing heavily
Paint Protection Film (PPF) for Tesla – Is it worth it?
I hate stone chips on cars. I mean, really, they are inevitable – after all, you’re driving something at speeds up to 70 MPH on roads that, if you look carefully are covered in little stones, bits of grit and random things (I once got the end of dinner fork
What are LFP batteries, and why do Tesla use them?
A quick primer on the two types of batteries chemistries used in current Tesla vehicles which should help ease anxiety about how they work and should be treated. It is intentionally written to be accessible to most people and skims over detail of chemical changes within batteries and the science
