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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 24683489, member: 77814&quot;]My Lincoln Mkz hybrid is 9 years old.&nbsp; Near zero maintenance for the entire vehicle and none for the main battery. After 9 years the start up lead acid battery gave up the ghost (it&#039;s in the trunk not under the hood so it was not exposed to the environment).</p><p>I was looking at replacing it with the new Corsair plug-in hybrid ... maybe if I win the lottery.</p><p>But before I bought my Lincoln I was looking at a used Tesla.&nbsp; I was going to have a solar panel array, battery storage as my charging station for it.&nbsp; But back then roaming across the country there weren&#039;t many plug in stations.&nbsp; Now they&#039;re are and the cars systems can help one go from charging station to charging station (though their reliability has to improve).</p><p><br /></p><p>But I prefer the hybrids myself.&nbsp; But for local driving I could easily use a full electric vehicle.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe Natural Gas is the largest used resource for power generation. One has to determine availability and transport logistics, scrubbers .. the total cost.&nbsp; Coal has long lost the economic value for power generation and many have been converted to natural gas over the years.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44636#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44636#" rel="nofollow">U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Texas has been exploding in Solar and Wind as they power requirements have been growing by 20% per year lately.&nbsp; It takes quite a number of years to build a gas or coal power plant.&nbsp; Solar is very quick and simple by comparison and for high solar day states it makes sense. Texas in 2021 used 38% renewable power and it&#039;s growing.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574725[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php" rel="nofollow">Electricity in the U.S. - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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