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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Is this sustainable or just a result of the rash of solar panel makers going belly up this past year and liquidating their stock?
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If by a rash of PV companies you mean two... of course for every company I hear is going under I hear about 2 or 3 more that are opening up to replace them and that those are doing great, building panels in the USA and selling them at a profit.
I think what has brought the price down is that production has caught up with demand, investors are seeing payback and no longer treating the solar industry as a high risk investment and countries like Germany are not buying up every panel we produce any more because they have started to get caught up on their goals, where in the past if you wanted to buy a USA made panel, it was a 6+ month wait because of the high demand.
Redpoint5: The folks I know with electric cars are a mix of people who own factory built cars like mine and others who have home conversions, Ben Nelson is the only one I know with a Geo Metro EV, other friends have more socially envious electric vehicles like Porsche, Corvette or a Nissan 300zx converted to electric.
When I said that I've had a few people laugh at my EV I was just being honest because no everyone likes it in the same way as not everyone likes my Honda Civic either, but most people who see my EV like it and I have a lot of people ask where they can find one to buy, people want to go for rides in it to see what EV's are like and the response is all around very positive, to the point where people take photos of it and hang them on their wall.
I find it funny that the people are don't like the idea of electric vehicles sound like they have never driven one let alone owned one, same thing with renewable energy, but those of us who have driven or do own electric vehicles want to give up our gasoline vehicles for them, same thing with people who live or have lived with renewable energy, there is a strong desire not to go back to those old ways, even the electric vehicles I see for sale people are not selling them because they are going back to gasoline, they are selling them for the same reason most people sell a vehicle, because they are replacing it with something that better suits their needs and most of the time that is another electric vehicle.