Are EVs an Opportunity? - Short #222
HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs
Bryan Orr
4.8 • 985 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this short podcast, Bryan talks about electric vehicles and whether EVs present an opportunity for HVAC technicians. The residential sales lead at Kalos recently mentioned that keeping an EV in a conditioned garage is advantageous, and it's an upgrade we can offer our customers.
In hot weather, EV battery performance and health can be degraded. On top of that, the vehicle consumes power when the vehicle gets hot so that the A/C can control the climate inside the car and preserve the interior. Most people also charge their electric vehicles in the garage at night, so it would stand to reason that conditioning the garage can yield energy savings and improve vehicle longevity. Attic encapsulation above the garage is also an option to limit warm, moist attic air from leaking into the garage; HVAC upgrades can include using closed-cell foam to encapsulate the attic and install a dehumidifier in there.
Conditioning a garage requires you to think about insulation. In our market (Florida), block walls don't insulate very well. Even when we can't do very much with the walls, we can usually use some polyiso boards inside the garage. However, we could get some moisture challenges, and carbon monoxide could be an issue if combustion appliances are in the garage (like furnaces, water heaters, or gas-powered cars). We can recommend using heat pump water heaters, and we should quote a low-level CO monitor in cases when garages have a CO risk.
It's important to make sure the garage remains separate from the rest of the house even when we do these upgrades. Keeping the garage separate helps prevent chemicals from getting into the airstream, especially yard chemicals or cleaners.
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| 0:00.0 | Ho, ho, ho. Merry friggin' Christmas. At least it's probably somewhere around Christmas when |
| 0:09.4 | this comes out. I'm making a good educated guess. But yeah, Merry Christmas, whether it's before or after. |
| 0:16.4 | I am a fan of the holiday season and Christmas in general. |
| 0:25.3 | It's a great time to connect with family and remember our Lord and Savior's Advent. |
| 0:28.4 | But today I want to talk about something that's come up recently. |
| 0:29.6 | Again, this is a short episode. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm Brian HVAC School podcast, all that stuff. |
| 0:35.7 | I want to talk about something that our residential sales guy brought up that I never thought of before that I think might be an opportunity. |
| 0:37.4 | It could be possibly at least something to think about for the HVACA. our residential sales guy brought up that I never thought of before, that I think might be an opportunity. |
| 0:41.8 | Could be possibly at least something to think about for the HVAC industry. |
| 0:44.3 | But before we get into that, we're going to thank our great sponsors. |
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| 1:05.1 | All right. So what we're talking about here is electric vehicles, EVs. |
| 1:13.0 | And hot weather and hot weather, EV batteries, not only can the performance be degraded, but the actual battery health over time can be degraded by high temperatures. It's another one of these things. I've never |
| 1:18.3 | owned an EV, but they're coming. There's a lot more of them. Obviously, they had a peak, and now |
| 1:24.2 | a lot of people are questioning it, and there's some challenges, but those challenges will be overcome and EVs will become more and more popular almost assuredly. And I know |
| 1:32.6 | some of you really hate that. I get it. I really don't actually have a dog in this fight. I'm not |
| 1:37.2 | really a car guy in the sense that I like a good machine as all of us do, but I'm not like into |
| 1:43.2 | particular cars. But I have rented an EV |
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