Yes, it's cheaper but I don't have a current price, I'll see if I can get one today.
For the $4,000 most people would probably be against it, since gasoline isn't hard to come by, and we all (generally speaking) make enough to fill our cars without having to cut back elsewhere.
How is this done, and what's the cost to get a setup installed?
No, and no. Solar hasn't caught on here, because we are lazy Americans, and the benefit isn't worth the upfront cost to most.
I live a few minutes away from my job, which is great. But if I want to go where there's things to do, I'm driving 25-35 miles one way. Out in the country where I live, people are used to driving an hour to a larger city for a better paying job. Same thing with people that live an hour south of the larger metropolitan areas.
I used to live 40 miles west of Minneapolis MN, and drove into a suburb to work. So I drove 8,000 miles to and from work each year. While at work, I'd look up car parts and other stuff to buy, and go drive wherever after D vildwork to get said parts. I drove 22,000 miles extra each year getting those parts, for a total of 30,000 miles a year. Not as a commercial driver, just for recreation. I've cut that number down a lot, but I'll drive across the country for a car. I just did it in April, getting my 1971 Monaco station wagon, and I'd do it again.
Here I am at Devil's Tower in Wyoming on the way home.
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Some people may appreciate a home charging system, but moms and their SUVs like to get in and go. Some of us have d tached garages, mines 50-60 feet from my house, and my driveway is the opposite way from the garage. I'd have to have my car as far away as possible to park it, and use the hydrogen "charger".
I just don't see the need to switch from a perfectly accessible fuel that is in great supply, and will be for a long time, much longer than people realize, and seem to think it will be available. This planet laughs at us and all we think we are doing to it. We aren't doing anything, and all the "green" energy that isn't that green, is just a feel good for those who don't understand that the "climate change" garbage they are hand fed by news and politicians, is nothing more then an attempt to gain power and control over how we all live our lives. Think the people in Sudan are going to latch on to solar power anytime soon? Or the fisherman in the Philippines are going to rush out and buy electric powered trawlers? No, because neither is practical.
I like having the option to go solar at home, or someone to have an EV, but I don't like being forced to accept a technology I feel isn't where it needs to be, for affordability, and sustainability. Mining lithium is a terrible process that digs giant holes in the ground. If it's for coal, that process is deemed harmful to the planet. But if it's for a Tesla, then those same people claim it is for the benefit of mankind. Most consumers are uneducated fools, who buy what is pumped on nightly TV commercials.
