Then It will be interesting to see how often the batteries need replacement. That is the part that is still mostly to come. I would assume that Riven put the very best most durable batteries in there though. Also, if they can only be on the road 75% of the time and they have to charge 25% of the time then you are only buying 75% of a truck if you think about it from Amazon's perspective. Also, I hope when Amazon starts doing this in my area that they eat all the cost of these upgrades. I don't use AI, I don't use an EV. I don't want to pay for any of this as part of my electricity bill. And once third party charging stations have that hit on their electricity bill, filling on the highway will soon be as expensive as gas. It doesn't scale.

In North America an EV is on average 50% more than its ICE counterpart. Also, used ICE vehicles are plentiful; you can buy a good one for $7K or so. Interest rates are high. No one is thinking down the road, they're thinking about the loan payments.

EVs just create a bigger problem with China instead. Furthermore, I'm not saying that we should sit on our hands with regards to global warming, but I knew about GHGs since I read kids books in the 70's. All that time I have been convinced that the capitalist system is the best system to provide for the needs of people and just let the market do the work. So I'm waiting for a replacement for ICEs that will be as convenient or more convenient and not ask me to break my bank account through modifying my home and running cables under my driveway. Why do they need the outlawing of the competition in order to sell if they are super awesome?

Ok so, here's an honest question. I have never used AI except for on bing. I tried to use ChatGPT once but I didn't feel they had a right to have my phone number so I didn't try it. I have a programming problem that is part of a larger application that seems kind of robotic and repetitive and may be fitting for AI to save time, so here goes:

I have an API interface composed of around 500 various calls that I need to compose into human readable data tables on a screen. The output is in complex json structures. The API doc is available online but the output structure is not so live data would need to be provided. If there is an array in the json then there should be a flyout table available. If there is a link to somewhere else in the API in the data then there should be a clickable way to navigate to that place in the API and show that table. If the data is more than one line then it should be truncated with a flyout of the entire data. There should be a path at the top of the screen that is always showing. If a file is available then there should be a download of the file. I can throw the API a bone and provide the styling for the table cells and path elements. Thiis is all in C++ and QML.

How would I do this in AI?

This is BS. Actually I just read an article on this that discussed a study that was done in terms of GDP. There are only three countries that will benefit (increased GDP) from climate change: Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia (don't quote me). Every other country in the world will have declining GDP. It's questionable whether many countries in the world will even have water. It's even starting to dry up in Canada. Provinces are creating stronger water preservation laws.

EVs don't scale well. At a gas station if you have two people in front of you, you wait 20 minutes. At an EV charging stand on the highway, lets say you can get the fastest charger; you may be waiting for an hour before you start to charge. That could be the difference between being relaxed for a flight and getting stressed out making it there just in time. The world has changed since the horse and buggy. Those days are gone, and a lot of times people are just trying to keep their schedule and know they can make it somewhere on time.

Yeah, it seems EV owner has always wither bought every lemon in the world, or bought into the fact that they need to take the car back to the dealer at every "scheduled maintenance". I have had my vehicle for 7 years now and bought it new. I have had to do brakes twice (I'm a very heavy stopper) and oil every time the light comes on. I called two trustworthy mechanics now and told them I did nothing else but this (essentially telling them I will give them money to fix it) and they asked me what the mileage was and said "I don't know, maybe you could check the air filter?".

The whole maintenance thing is a total misnomer. The kid across the street has a 2006 Toyota. His safety came up and he just had to fix the emergency brake.It's better to have to replace parts as they break than to have to replace half the car when anything happens. It's going to make insurance rates skyrocket. If they are cheap to make because they are simpler then it's time to extend that onto the cost of cars and parts. Why is Tesla tanking now if they are so simple to make?

And yes, the PM of my country does want to take it away by 2035. All my life I have been complaining that things are too expensive and the answer has been "let the market do the work". Well I see EVs really slowing down in the market. Yet my country wants to remove it as an option altogether.

So they couldn't foresee any of these problems? These are the same reasons most people don't want EVs, just on a different scale.

Well thanks for giving up your false argument and not wasting mine.

You would like to spend $10K on a basic office pc?

How do you know that guy at the store doesn't pull a work trailer around the other 99.9999% of the time when you don't see him? Or haul a boat and put atvs in the back. Or haul loads of firewood.

So say you can make a wheat field equal the soil in the tropics using just chemicals. What about the fact that Canada from the Continental divide to the maritimes is going to be dry as a dessert? They are already having to ration water.

This study doesn't form a baseline for all weather and driving conditions. Nor does it even account for the safety of new vehicles versus old. Trespass have the advantage of all being new, they need to compare to other new vehicles driving in perfect weather on roads Tesla fsd can handle for it to be a proper study. These are just Tesla propaganda.

They add nutrients for growing grains. Nor nutrients for growing palm trees. It's not just the nutrients either. It's about its density, how saturated with water it gets, how much precipitation there is, etc etc. Alberta has already passed a law to preserve water because climate change is making the middle of Canada dry most of the year.

Alberta has welcomed AVs. Sounds like a good test need to me. They get blizzards and ice and snow like BC but while there are some slopes at least there are no mountains.