Anyone in the US or Canada affected by the storm I'm seeing on the news?
Storm is over here in Oregon. BUT I see the Tesla car owner have discovered they cannot charge the cars in the cold weather!
We had -39°C (with wind chill -52) three days ago (western Canada).
Global warming 
, oh, they are saying it’s just a normal weather pattern. 
We decided to send it east and south because they were laughing at us.
+7°C today, now we laugh back.
My mitts are toasty warm:
Yep. But the storm passed over today. I'm in Toronto, we were spared the worst of it, but we still have the cold and high winds.
Subzero °F wind chill temps and 50+ MPH wind on Friday. Only a trace of precipitation.
72 °F and sunny here in AZ. Kind of makes up for 120°F this summer. Merry Christmas to all.
The lowest we got here in central Texas was -11ºC, don’t know what the wind chill was. Back up to 10ºC today. Pretty cold for us. Fortunately it was dry as a bone so it didn’t affect travel at all.
Hi,
Looking at the news here, Australia, there are a massive number of trucks stranded on freeways.
I assume the lower temperatures will become a problem if they dip too low, preheaters will be working overtime.
Tom... 
PS Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Christmas Day 2022.
Spent Christmas Eve in the dark, voluntarily, but unhappy with GA Power Corp. Seems the power grid had no surplus and GA Power put out a warning to us users: turn off everything not mandatory and prohibited (strongly requested as they have no legal authority) that no electric cars be charged;: or they would begin rolling blackouts. P.I.T.A.
Here we are inching into 2023 and fish-heads at utility companies still design on-pole facilities. With most roads and older subdivisions lined with trees, high winds or icing is always taking out power lines.
The fish stinks from the head. And GA Power just got a 12% increase from the GA Public non-Service starting in January.
I would put up solar panels but HOA prohibits and in GA the HOA has the power to be very hostile.
I wonder when EV owners are going to be charged commercial electric rates and not residential? It is bound to happen.
Hi,
Winter of course causes higher power usage than Summer, although AC in houses has increased due to low imported prices of refridgerative and evaporative systems.
We get in some areas here utility companies warning of blackouts to ease the load.
Our state Government has "promised" to start the old "State Electricity Commission" SEC back up and get some power generation and sales back into line with government control.
All the power generation was sold off in 1997, now 25 years later attempting to by it all back.
Our gas and petrol companies export our gas, and petrol, and rip the locals off at the same time
Fuel prices in Australia are set by the market. International benchmark prices and the value of the Australian dollar have the most influence on the price consumers pay for fuel . Pricing decisions by wholesalers and retailers, and levels of competition in different locations influence fuel prices.
So the gas companies sell the gas to locals at the export/overseas price same goes for petrol.
And they do it legally.
As you say its the holy dollar.
Tom..
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-17.3 K here (no wind)
It was around zero Fahrenheit for the low on Christmas Eve here. I tried to be clever and run dishwasher, laundry, shower in succession to keep things flowing. It worked perfectly until a toilet flush and then effluent started appearing in bathtub and shower.
At least it got the plumbers some emergency callout rate Christmas money 
Your not putting enough chili or curry in your diet.
Tom..
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That's got to be some sort of record!
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Probably get a Nobel prize for physics for that!
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And how much is the fish?... i meant electric rates?
Georgia, USA, has a weird system of Rural Electric Corps and the bigassbusiness Georgia Power. Co-ops generally buy discounted and manage infrastructure in areas where GA Power did not serve many years back... once established, they are islands often within populated centers no longer rural.
Commercial rates are really strange:
The "electric" kWh does not make the total bill as the Public Service Commission permits other charges to be included such as mothballing a partial nuclear plant, pre-payment of construction interest, and other crap. The entire concept of Public Service has been politicalized beyond recognition as, IMO, the PSC here is just a bunch of brainless fools on a government salary.
In researching the Rate Plans for Residental, I stumbled onto:
So, looks like the hammer has hit the EV. Many are liking flying under-the-radar if their home EV charger was installed without a county permit by a shady electrician. But, with digital power usage meters, software may be able to deduce an EV fingerprint leading to Residental Code Violations, fines, back payment to GA Power. Much of the infrastructure is likely already in-place as numerous reports of drug-busts are reported by local news due to "unusual power usage" in grow-houses.
TOU-PEV-9.pdf (132.9 KB)
I own a 2022 Hybrid, with city/highway of 51/51 and I am getting that consistently over 10K miles. The full-EV market scares me as it is simply too political at this time.
Just some chilly galliformes here in the middle east coast US.
7F / -14C
It's simple. The molecules are vibrating backwards!
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See if solar roofs might be an option.