Elon Musk gives a conference in the White House in Doge
Two discounts of unrelated federal budget send a strange message about Elon Musk’s goals in the “Government Efficiency Department”. In a widely criticized action as a conflict of interest, Doge has ordered 10% abbreviated to the National Transport Security Administration on the highway, which oversees vehicle safety, including a nearly 50% cut in the small team that oversees safety of self-driving cars. This team has numerous continuing Tesla investigations, led by Elon Musk.
Moreover, Colorado’s Public Radio reports that orders are emerging from the general services administration to close the EV cartridges in federal buildings (confirmed at the Federal Denver Center.) Such action would have a negative effect on the EV transition in which Tesla has been the overwhelming leader, and Musk was the largest amplifier.
There was a lot of speculation that Musk would like to reign in the cars they drive, as Tesla has great ambitions there. She has claimed she will establish a robotax service in Austin until June, partly because Texas has a very minimal adjustment of such cars. Currently, most self-driving rules are made by states, which license road control cars and rules. California has detailed rules, while Texas and Arizona have few. NHTSA and the federal government regulate vehicle sales and security. Self-driving vehicles are vehicles, and if they are safe it looks like a federal issue, but vehicles are steering and following road rules that is a state issue.
The federal regulation, however, can prevent state regulations and create a set of normalized rules across the country. This would be easier for companies to respect, but would end the “jurisdictional competition”, where states experiment with different rules to learn what is right. This competition has enabled the initial start of the cars they drive on their own. Even so, there have been numerous efforts to draft federal regulations at each congress, but they have all failed in the Committee.
Hasten speculated with the new power of Musk, which he does not seem to be afraid to use to benefit his companies, he may require light federal rules so that Tesla cannot be free to do her things . However, of interest, the ideal situation for this would be to create a little federal agency and close those of the state. Pena Doge hits the fear in the heart of all federal departments-tut doge happy or cut in half. Now that this is done, the pen does not create so much fear unless specific individuals can be fired.
Charging in the office
Closing office chargers is a strange. For the transition to succeed, charging must be easy and inexpensive. The two best places to make that are at home and at work (or passenger parking.) There, cars are parked for long periods, allowing charging of slower level 2, which is much cheaper that quick charging that gets all the attention, and also much more convenient. Charging occurs while sleeping or working, and just park where you normally park. Most offices give them free load for employees and guests as a beautiful blow, but if they want to charge for it, the cost of providing it is usually much lower than the cost of public charges. Much lower than only at 1/3 as much as possible.
An EV charger in an office building
However, the great victory of the office charge is that it was made during the day. Today, this is not a victory as the power of the night is cheaper, but soon midnight power will be cheaper, coming from excess solar energy. In fact, for 20% of the hours last year, the majority of energy prices were made in the middle of the day negativeThat is, some energy generation companies had to pay users to take their power, as it is not easy to remove some types of power plants. This is due to the large solar surplus that comes when you build a lot of free sun and you have more than you can use at the peak, from 10am to 2pm, standard local time. It is an even greater victory when a company has solar panels in their facility, as the energy from those panels can be used directly without paying high distribution costs for the power tool. In the future, we will want as much as possible to load noon at noon, and for travelers which means in the office.
If the operation of these free charges for staff is a problem, many can charge staff money to cover costs. Closing the charges below makes little sense, and Musk should know that. He has been very reinforcement of the world’s largest transition-so it will be strange if he does not move to rotate this.