I don't see that happening. If you live with an EV, especially one with 200+ miles of range (which is a lot of them now) you'll see that the vast majority of the time you're charging at home, overnight, and it's just not an issue. I expect that in the US we'll end up with 300+ miles of range being the base, once the price of batteries drops some more. For road trips, even a long trip in a slow charging EV like a Leaf today only adds a couple of hours; most new EVs are already way better than that, and it will keep getting better for the foreseeable future as more, and more powerful, fast charging stations roll out in more locations. The ability to charge overnight when you're parked is really great, and I think any battery swapping schemes will fail because they can't compete with that.

I don't have a Tesla, but I do have a Leaf, and I would speculate that actually, a lot of what makes a Tesla cool is what makes any EV cool - the electric drivetrain. It's just so much nicer to have an almost silent, responsive motor than an internal combustion engine. Sure, the bells and whistles make Tesla stand out from my Leaf, but even my Leaf is much nicer to drive than almost any gas powered car. When I got the Leaf I had a BMW convertible, which I sold after having to repeatedly jump start since it sat for so long because we just didn't want to drive it enough. And the Leaf is an econobox at heart, a cheap reliable* daily driver.

*Battery degradation may be a factor, but for the price I paid it's not an issue for me, plus the warranty is 8 years if it gets bad.

In this context, I think it's safe to say that SUV means "slightly taller car". This is not going to be an electric 4 Runner.

Honestly, Toyota is more like the Nokia here. Telsa released the iPhone a couple of years ago, and Toyota is just now launching its Android phone.

The switch to EVs is inevitable, and Toyota's bet on fuel cells seems to have been overtaken by advances in batteries which are here, good enough, and getting cheaper all the time. Soon there will be lots of competition for Tesla but right now, only VW seems to be going all in. Maybe the rest will have time to catch up, we'll see.

I'm in a small company, and for us this is huge - we don't have a licensing department, we just want to deploy and not worry about it. CentOS has been great for us - super stable and no headaches. We'll probably switch to Ubuntu LTS which I'm sure will also be great, but there will be a slight learning curve.

Since the efficacy of the first dose alone seems to be around 80%, I wouldn't worry too much about that.

According to this article, " it was possible to fit in enough redundant cores to account for the defect-induced failure of even 1 percent of them and still have a very powerful, very large chip".

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semi...

The article from IEEE mentioned being able to deal with a 1% failure rate on the cores, not sure if that's what they are actually seeing.

Except if you want to test more models than distributed, less powerful machines will allow you. If this lets you test 20 models in the time it took you to do one before, you may gain an advantage. There may not be a huge market for this, but I can see that there's enough demand from a number of industries that they will probably sell quite a few.

To be clear, gluten is digestable, but not fully; some proteins are passed through. It seems these are the parts that cause the celiac reaction.

The confusing sentence should be something like:

Among those companies affected are: BT and its EE mobile division, Vodafone, and Tesco Mobile; O2, Sky, Three and Virgin already only sell unlocked handsets.

My reading of the actual tweet is that the rollout will be slow and cautious, not (necessarily) the software.

Quote:
FSD beta rollout happening tonight. Will be extremely slow & cautious, as it should.

Them, and the elderly, and people who just never got the hang of driving well, and the people who are momentarily distracted...

There is a jetpack in the UK which the Great North Air Ambulance Service was evaluating recently; in the video I saw they said it had about 5 minutes flight time. I'm not sure if that would be enough to reach 6000 feet, but I'd imagine it could get pretty high. They were just staying a few feet off the ground in order to get up a hill quickly. So it wouldn't shock me that it's possible. I would think that rather than flying around LAX you would head out into the desert if you had such a thing, but maybe that's just me.

I agree that the logistics of installing chargers is daunting, but since most EV charging can be done off peak, I don't think that most grids will need to be upgraded for quite some time.