Beautiful car indeed! But not a solution for any kind of large scale - it has tiny production runs, and I wonder what way they found to make it comply with safety regulations.

For small city EVs, there are cars such as the Renault Twingo and Fiat 500, which have roughly the same outside dimensions as that Carice car, but then quite a lot more practical. They are not considered micro here though. The real micro EVs are meant for short trips in the city only, with their very limited top speed, and are mainly interesting if parking space is very limited.

Then again, there are places where most people use bikes for most short trips. Those places are quite flat. What the e-bike does, is to make it possible to use bikes easily in places with hills. And in flatter places, to not care about the wind at all.

Cold is not an issue at all - you don't need heating, just wear suitable clothes. Rain too, although the clothing for that is a bit more annoying. Heat, snow and ice are harder to solve. I have no idea why anyone would need or want a bike that is stable on stop, tricycles are very big, and not popular anywhere in the world for personal transport.
It helps to nudge people by designing roads to better accommodate bikes (then the crash safety issue largely disappears!), and planning cities so trips are short. From enormous centralized stores that you need to drive 20 miles to, to more and slightly smaller ones, for example.
This is a culture and mentality problem, not a 'we need better bikes!' problem.

Most of the energy used to drive at speed is to overcome air resistance. That does not change for a heavier car.
Rolling resistance does increase a bit. And accelerating costs more energy, but that can be used to charge the battery again when slowing down.
So, not so inefficient.

What is really inefficient is the internal combustion engine in traditional cars. It outputs mostly heat, plus also a bit of mechanical energy. Oh, and producing, storing, transporting and using hydrogen fuel is also quite inefficient. Plus the current hydrogen powered cars aren't exactly light weight.

It is so annoying that people just shut it off. I do not know anyone who actually uses it, and I do know people who have driven cars where you need to enter a menu to shut it off over and over again....

The EU system has to warn even for 2 km/h above the speed limit on the meter as displayed in the car. Then it can warn with a beep, a vibrating accelerator pedal, or it can limit speed. Only in the last case does the 'apply More force' work, the other two systems are warnings without limiting.

I drive a car with such a system. It beeps, which is way cheaper to do than the other two systems. And you cannot set a margin, because the EU directive does not allow you to. It uses GPS augmented with traffic sign recognition. The fact that you cannot set a margin, that it is wrong very often and that warning sounds are annoying just means the system has one effect: you have to turn it off before driving after each start. Usually after the first beep, which means I have to take attention off the road and towards finding the single button on the touch screen to stop the annoying system in. Making this system cause more risk than it solves.

Our other car has a limiter you can set to the max speed limit, optionally. It is pre-EU directive, so it can be permanently disabled. You can override it by hitting the kick-down switch at the bottom of the accelerator pedal. That is only safe on low power engines...

This is not a summary, it is just the first paragraph of the specification of the Misty language.

Also the language uses the Æ'-character - and that's not an f. Which would be quite annoying to type often, unless you have something like a pre-euro coin Dutch keyboard.

But the combination of category and the other headers that are sent are more likely to be unique. So if you already have cookie blocking extensions installed, it will decrease your privacy. They did not launch a new 'privacy feature'. They launched a new advertising feature.
I did get a setting to immediately disable it on the popup at the beginning. Might be different in the EU than the US?

Meanwhile in the Netherlands providers are required to provide instructions so people can use their own equipment. Even fiber NTUs, even for PON networks that require the ISP to provide encryption keys. Prices are required to be listed including any taxes or charges.

And the ISPs do just fine, they offer fast and reliable service at affordable prices. There are some regional lack of competition issues around fiber, but then most often cable is also available.

If you program it to get points to be obedient, it will likely try to act destructively so the operator has to intervene, giving it points.
Already a bit better could be to penalize it for operator intervention, and for destroying things that it must not destroy.

Giving a straightforward machine learning algorithm overly simplistic goals gives very predictable results. Sound indeed like very inexperienced people doing this experiment, or people wanting to show this is a bad idea to a large audience.

Also in the EU you can buy the base model, RWD, 455km WLTP, 6.9 seconds to 100km/h. That one is less expensive. For example, here it costs â51000, which includes 21% VAT, so its US price equivalent would be around â42000, so about $45000. For some reason its â2000 less expensive than the model 3.

The model X costs â145000, nearly three times as much.

The EU directive also addresses quite a large part of that problem, by not just requiring charging over USB-C, but requiring support of USB-PD for all devices capable of charging at more than 5 volts or 3 ampere.

You can buy Android phones that have nothing carrier specific, at least you can in the EU. It does not help much, they still come with only 2, 3 or sometimes 5 years of updates, instead of being supported for as long as you can update a PC.

With EVs however, theres usually a single speed transmission. Meaning that all power is instantly available at all times, independent of engine RPM. So they react to you pressing the accelerator pedal really fast. Very different from automatic transmission in cars with internal combustion engines.

F1 cars have automated manual transmission. The driver must still choose themselves. A fully automatic transmission would not work for racing, as it cannot anticipate what comes next. It is also what makes automatic transmission feel a bit sluggish - it simply cannot prepare for what comes next. It does have other benefits of course.

In Europe many (most?) cars do still have a manual transmission. But with EVs this is no longer a problem anyway, so this will just be temporary.

Reasons to create offshore wind include lots of people saying NIMBY in more densely populated countries. And we are going to need *a lot* of these things in the future. At least in the Netherlands, the availability of suitable land is a big problem, and most wind turbines are built on the sea to solve this problem.