Comment Re: It won't be viable until charge times are down (Score 1) 142
No, you just stop at a DCFC and charge for 5 minutes or so. You're not screwed by any means.
No, you just stop at a DCFC and charge for 5 minutes or so. You're not screwed by any means.
So... stop at a DC fast charger on your way to work. Problem solved. Duh.
The pooch in this case (Apple users) are a realllly big and forgiving pooch. So there's a lot of screwing it can take. By a lot, I mean the dog is the size of a trainload of elephants who all like a good reaming, since they keep coming back for more on a daily basis.
If you're dealing with only 2 runways, your argument is valid - why update for a minor adjustment.... but as a pilot, I can tell you that it's important when there's more than 2 tangential runways, especially in low visibility and/or in a non-IFR equipped plane.
One runway can be labeled 18 and a tangential runway could be 20. If the pole shifts, requiring 18 to be 19 now, you can get confused and come in on approach for 20, potentially causing an accident or other runway incursion. This is an extreme example, but it's a possibility. The tangential runways are the big issue and are why having accurately numbered runways are so important. The more pilot load you can remove, the safe everyone is. Having to think about and mentally calculate a change can cause a serious diversion of attention during a tense landing situation. Something you *really* don't want to happen.
I find it hard to believe that any software patch is managing to brick a PC. Short of flashing the BIOS, it's almost impossible to brick a PC with software. A simple format/reinstall will recover the PC without issues.
Roku screwed the pooch late last year by removing the Optical output on their Ultra... so Roku is basically garbage now. They were my Go To streaming device up until now... but without Optical out, they are functionally useless to a vast swath of users.
Time to move on to a different device, but I don't know what. It's sad... Roku was pretty much best of the best in terms of ease of use and compatibility.
So your problem is with the Leaf's implementation of Bluetooth, not Bluetooth. You should complain to Nissan.
I have the same scenario in my cars (Teslas), and do not have the problems you describe. My phone hooks up to my wifes car just fine and hers hooks up to mine just fine. The only problems we have is priority - and again, that's a Tesla implementation problem, not a Bluetooth problem.
Try counterfeiting bitcoin in any useful quantity and see what happens. I guarantee you far more than if you counterfeit Canadian money.
Firefox and Chrome have many other common legitimate uses. Kodi is generally used for piracy and serves no purpose other than streaming. There's a big difference no matter how butthurt you trolls get about it.
What the hell are you talking about? I've used XBMC (now Kodi) since it was on the Xbox. The original. I have numerous media players in the house (Kodi) and I've never once streamed a single thing with them. Kodi serves plenty of other purposes than streaming.
Android is probably the least fussy, most widely used Linux based out there for consumers.
Seriously. Get an Android device and go to town.
The brakes are actually fairly interesting. With the proper design, you could do away with the brakes entirely (I'm not saying you should, I'm saying you could). If you increase the resistance in the regenerative braking to the point where it will stop the wheels and hold them in place, you could do away with friction brakes entirely. Of course, you should still keep them as backup, but with a fully 100% backed up braking system, you can virtually eliminate brake failure.
>> At 20 years in and 12,000 miles per year, 240,000 miles, they'll quite likely have 85% of their capacity
Not even close, especially in hot climates like CA and AZ. I used to work for one of the 3 big EV charging station companies and they also have a sister company that does EV battery testing for the government. I can tell you that no EV car battery lasts anything like 20 years. With a normal drive cycle its about 4 years max before you start noticing very significant amounts of dropoff (like 1/3) in max range, and depending on how determined to save money you are, it will be maybe 7-8 years max before even the most determined owner HAS to totally replace the battery.
Tesla is also using the same battery tech as everyone else so they are just as susceptible, no matter what their glossy advertising claims.
This is demonstrably false, as Teslas have been out for more than 4 years and are seeing minimal battery degradation. I have a 2012 Telsa (one of the first 2000 off the line) and the battery degradation is sitting at 96% of its original capacity. It has almost 100,000 miles on it. So I've lost 4% in 4 years and it's been holding steady for the past year at that rate. There are numerous other examples of this in the Tesla world. Do your research. Spewing false facts (ahem, I mean alternative facts) about EV batteries isn't helpful.
Then don't charge your laptop to 100%. Charge it to 80% and try not to let it go below 20% charge and you'll have a laptop that has 94% of it's original capacity after 6 months, 12 months... probably 48 months.
It's when you charge it to 100% each time or drain it past 20% each time that the battery really starts to degrade.
without needing to rely on a central authority.
Because the official blockchain servers are not any sort of central authority.
What official blockchain servers? There's no such thing.
90k isn't exactly luxury. I live in Switzerland, and I'd call that mid range.
Two words: Bull and Shit.
I don't care where you live, $90k USD is most definitely in the Luxury class and it not in any way in the mid-range class.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
