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I read the article and no where does it make a case for why a blockchain makes any sense in the application. I read a comment by a person claiming to be associated with the project saying that "blockchain enabled" makes sense because the payment are p2p but that doesn't make sense either. Blockchains are good for pretty much one thing: a distributed ledger that parties can trust to be immutable. I can confidently say they're only inserting a blockchain here because it gets the idea more buzz.

Side note: I had no idea people paid so much to charge they're EVs. the article mentioned that a electric bill in Cali can be upwards of $1000/yr.

Edit for clarity: the $1000/yr figure is the marginal cost of charging the EV, not the entire bill

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I fill up my Jeep about once a week. At an average cost of $25 to fill over the course of 52 weeks, that's $1,300.

Of course I don't have the added bonus of being able to charge from solar power, but at least that shows that the cost of electricity isn't prohibitive versus the cost of gasoline.

> Of course I don't have the added bonus of being able to charge from solar power

Ugh, you also don't have the added bonus with an EV to just fill up when necessary.

As a fellow Jeep owner (2004 TJ, {waves - lol}), I was sitting here wondering how you "fill up" a Jeep with only $25.00 (@ approx $2.00 per gallon - that'd be 12.5 gallons of gas per fill up). So I googled things - found this:

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f9/gas-tank-size-249444/

Of course, that whole discussion just throws a bunch of wrenches into the works; maybe you do have the 15 gallon tank on a older model (newer JKs have much larger tanks supposedly)? And apparently there's still more in the tank even once the light comes on (a few gallons reserve)?

I've never "buried the needle" on my Jeep yet, so I have no idea what size tank I have.

Yeah that's kinda what I meant. I don't burn a whole tank each week but I roughly fill it up weekly. Besides it was meant to be more a comparison of marginal rather tha absolute cost.

2015 Patriot (fist bump), if that makes a difference in the calculation.

> the article mentioned that a electric bill in Cali can be upwards of $1000/yr.

I live in Phoenix, AZ - my electric bill is rarely ever under $100.00 per month; in the summertime it can edge upwards to close to $400.00 a month.

I don't have an electric car, either.

/two A/C units on a 2000 sf house will do that, tho...

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