I dunno how they’ve achieved better densities using cylindrical rather than prismatic. My best guess is it’s due to a better density achievable *within* each cell, even if that comes at the expense of less efficient packing of the cells. In any event, it’s what BMW say has led to greater density, and I can’t see a reason why they’d say an untruth about this, and their engineers will certainly know lots more about this topic than I do.

Of three things that could be called childish: thinking a car is better because of the sound it makes, calling that sound vroom-vroom, or getting in a snit because someone called that sound vroom-vroom, the latter is comfortably the most childish.

Your powers of deduction have failed you and you were confidently wrong, just like my annoying 14 year old nephew: I’m 50, not a kid.

And “newsflash” — if you want to prove you’re terribly mature and not at all childish like moi, then using phrases like “newsflash” kinda undermines your position. Especially as you seem to think that the only driving that counts is driving above 30mph, whereas urban driving and the noise and tailpipe emissions it generates is a major source of harm to human and animal health, and also constitutes the bulk of all driving journeys.

I mean, I’ve literally put my money where my mouth is and bought 4 EVs so far, and the experience has been excellent each and every time. Sono.

More than half the world’s population is urban

Of course there is force.

When your basic needs are tied to employment then you have to be employed to have them met.

Thanks to ongoing improvements in productivity, less work must be done by humans to provide for those needs than ever before, but the owning class has sucked up all of those improvements so that they can make ever more money instead.

If employers are allowed to run off with all those profits and make workers work longer and longer hours then there will be more and more unemployed people whose needs aren't being met. This can, does, will, and will continue to have negative effects on everyone but the ultra wealthy.

Therefore it is not in the best interests of The People to allow it to continue.

The government's job is to ensure the welfare of the people, and if it can't do that then it's worthless at best.

Restricting the number of hours an employer can require you to work is therefore in everyone's best interests, since even the wealthy will lose if the system collapses. They are simply too stupid to realize this.

Windows ME wasn't a memory hog, its big problem was destroying backwards compatibility and making changes for no reason. Windows 8 is Windows ME redux, though.

I'm not against them removing the apps, I'm against the headline trying to make me feel a certain way. Present the facts, I'll decide how I feel about them.

When you put a bunch of cylinders in a box you by definition have wasted space.

When you put boxes in a box you can have no wasted space.

How does using cylindrical cells improve density?

Using cylindrical cells also means having to have more parallelism to achieve a specific capacity, which means more connections, which means less reliability. This is a big part of the reason why post-collision Tesla model S batteries are unsafe for RV power storage. You can't reasonably detect bonding faults.

More to the point, it's unsustainable to just let anyone do anything just because they want to. There's a broad range of behaviors which fall into that non-category, and some of them are fine because they're not hurting anyone and some of them aren't because they are. Right to swing fist, end of my nose, etc etc.

I enjoy vroom vroom noises myself but I also appreciate that there are more important issues at hand than my own selfish gratification.

You literally cannot prevent that in an app which can make consensual nude images. Therefore the word nonconsensual is being used in order to trigger people into having a specific opinion. A better description is "an app which can be used to create fake nude images" since it can't literally show you what someone would look like unclothed.

Battery tech *already is* getting better quickly:
- A facelifted EQA saw range improved from 263 to 345 miles
- The facelifted Taycan has a 35% longer range because of a larger battery (in the same space) -- now at 421 miles
- CATL yesterday announced a new LFP battery with a 600 mile range, up from 400 miles in the old version. LFP was confined to things like buses until three years ago. Now it's in mass use for cars
- Findreams (owned by BYD) are on the cusp of launching Blade 2.0 battery packs, also LFP. It is smaller, lighter and more efficient than Blade 1.0. It also has a 600 mile range
- BMW are building out their Neue Klasse architecture with new batteries -- just the move from prismatic to cylindrical enables substantially better densities which means a range improvement of 30%+

This is going to continue for years ahead, much like chip improvements in the semiconductor industry.

It's exactly the rapid rate of improvement that's meant that I've always got my EVs on finance for the past 9 years:
2015 -- Gen 1 Zoe -- 80 miles(!)
2018 -- Gen 2 Zoe -- 186 miles
2020 -- Gen 3 Zoe -- 245 miles
2024 -- EQA -- 330 miles (I lost some range because I chose a premium version)

The interesting thing about that statement is that it's the fascists that have brought us to this point where we have all these highly polluting coal plants.

People said the same about horses being replaced by ICE vehicles ("horses can make more horses and that's a trick that tractors never learned"; LPs being replaced by CDs ('digital music always has steps and we as audiophiles can hear them'); bricks being replaced by smartphones ('my battery lasts all week'); watches being replaced by smart watches (ditto re batteries), etc etc

You, and lots of other consumers, may value vroom-vroom noises, the ability to tow three tons of kit and five minute refuels on long journeys more highly than silence, lack of vibration, instant acceleration, proportionate throttle response, no nasty smells, and the ability to charge at home, but I'm willing to bet quite a lot of money that ever more people will prefer the latter over the former, especially as upfront costs come down

ironically, he got the quote for free from someone else and used it to his economic advantage, which rather undermines the meaning of the quote.

https://www.cato.org/blog/who-....

Where did you get your very exciting statistic about 85% of humans living in non-developed regions from?