{"id":36961,"date":"2010-11-29T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:20:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:20:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:20:03","slug":"it_costs_big_to_convert_your_home_to_charge_an_electric_bubble_car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/11\/29\/it_costs_big_to_convert_your_home_to_charge_an_electric_bubble_car\/","title":{"rendered":"It Costs Big to Convert Your Home to Charge an Electric Bubble Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Now, look at this. This is from the Associated Press yesterday, and it\u2019s from their energy writer. &#8216;How to Prep Your Home for an Electric Car,\u2019 is the headline. The subheadline: &#8216;To avoid potential power outages, check your wiring.\u2019 Oh. And get this. I learned sometime last week that electric car manufacturers are having to give training to EMS personnel, emergency medical responders and so forth on how not to get electrocuted when you come upon the car in an accident and you have to tow it or get people out of it. But that\u2019s not the half of it. Listen &#8212; (laughing) &#8212; this is just&#8230; kind of like Dennis Miller had a great line on these compact fluorescent lightbulbs. I\u2019ll have to paraphrase it, I don\u2019t remember exactly what it was. But he said, &#8216;I have not worked all of my life to have my house filled with lights that look like the kind of cheap lights that light stairways in James Bond movies.\u2019 Dank little lights in the stairways where the bad guys hang out. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125115.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignright\"\/>All right. &#8216;Getting your home ready to charge an electric car will require little time or money &#8212; or a couple months and thousands of dollars.\u2019 A couple of months and thousands of dollars to get your home ready to charge an electric car. &#8216;It depends on what kind of electric car you buy, the wiring in your home and how quickly you want to juice your ride.\u2019 Now, I\u2019d assume that you\u2019d want to be able to juice your ride the day you get it. &#8216;Electric cars are powered by batteries that are charged by plugging them into a standard wall socket or a more powerful charging station. The charging station will cut your charging time roughly in half, and reduce the chance you\u2019ll trip a circuit in your home. But it will likely cost $2,000 or more, including installation. The price will rise if you need a new electrical panel, which could add another $2,000. The main thing to consider is how you are going to use your electric car. If your commute is short, or there\u2019s a charging station near your office, you might not need much of a charge at home. You can get away with topping off your battery overnight,\u2019 provided you have room and that the boss isn\u2019t using the charging station for his electric car. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A standard 120-volt wall socket will give a car about five miles of driving for every hour of charging. That means if you had a 40 mile round-trip commute you\u2019d be able to charge in 8 hours.\u2019 You have in most electric cars a 40- to 50-mile-per-charge distance, depending of course on speed, and then it\u2019s eight hours to charge it to do that. All right, that\u2019s where we are now. &#8216;If you deplete your battery all the way most days, a charging station that is connected to a 240-volt socket, like ones used for most electric dryers, could be worthwhile. The $41,000 Chevrolet Volt and the $33,000 Nissan Leaf are set to go on sale next month. Buyers qualify for a federal tax credit of $7,500,\u2019 because they have to be paid to buy these cars, and additional and local state subsidies in some cases might apply. You might end up being paid ten grand to buy one of these cars. To date Apple has not paid me a penny to buy 20 years\u2019 worth of their products, nor have they ever been on sale. But that\u2019s another story. And Apple products use electricity, by the way. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the Volt and the Leaf have two different batteries and different charging requirements. &#8216;Scott Little, 62, an experimental physicist from Austin, Texas, has reserved a Nissan Leaf, but he\u2019s not going to install the charger because of what he calls its &#8216;ridiculous\u2019 price. &#8216;The idea of paying $2,000 for what amounts to a dryer plug irritates a guy like me,\u2019 he says. Instead, he\u2019s going to use his wall socket for a while, and eventually install chargers himself at his home and his farm, 40 miles away.\u2019 (laughing) So the idea of paying $2,000 &#8212; wait \u2019til he finds out what it\u2019s gonna cost him to charge the damn thing! A battery like this plugged into your wall for eight hours? The bottom line here is you\u2019re gonna have to upgrade your house to efficiently charge your brand-new electric car. Hubba hubba hubba. If the house catches on fire, who do you sue? Well, if your house catches on fire when you\u2019re charging your iPhone who do you sue? You don\u2019t sue anybody, do you? People\u2019s houses catch on fire with electrical problems, gas problems, you go to the insurance company and they pay off and then cancel you. We\u2019ll wait for that to happen. You know, there\u2019s gonna be a giant class-action lawsuit or something when this happens. It\u2019s gonna be fun to watch. All these fadsters getting involved here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, look at this. This is from the Associated Press yesterday, and it\u2019s from their energy writer. &#8216;How to Prep Your Home for an Electric Car,\u2019 is the headline. The subheadline: &#8216;To avoid potential power outages, check your wiring.\u2019 Oh. And get this. I learned sometime last week that electric car manufacturers are having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It Costs Big to Convert Your Home to Charge an Electric Bubble Car - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/11\/29\/it_costs_big_to_convert_your_home_to_charge_an_electric_bubble_car\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"It Costs Big to Convert Your Home to Charge an Electric Bubble Car - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Now, look at this. 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