They should call it blockchain-meat then.

Ultimately a lot of punctuation is intended to eliminate ambiguity and improve readability. Sometimes one can sort of work out what the real intent was, sometimes not.

VW says they are paying 100$/kWh for batteries today. Not 2025 or 2030.

But I went with Hyundai Kona, and not a Tesla.

The more I read, each manufacturer seems to have their own strengths and weaknesses. Tesla, being new to the game, has trouble with fit-and-finish issues, but has mastered the EV end of things. Other manufacturers have largely mastered fit-and-finish - they are playing catch-up on the rest of the technology. Nissan got out to a good start initially, but they have failed to update the Leaf, and for some reason that nobody can explain, still insists on air-cooled batteries.

Battery supply is a huge limiting factor for many manufacturers. New capacity is being added all the time, and the price of batteries is dropping. Batteries is probably where Tesla has the edge right now - they have locked up substantial supplies of the things.

Most of my recent cars strongly recommend a timing belt change at regular intervals. Many engines these days are of an interference design, and if the belt breaks, all sorts of things inside of the engine get mashed. Bent valves - that sort of thing. Very expensive repairs.

In some cases you can get away without it, but if you put it off long enough, eventually it will come and bite you in the shorts.

I am seriously thinking of an EV for my next car - there are now models out there with a range > 200 miles.

It isn't just the reduced labor to build the cars. Maintaining them is simpler and cheaper as well. A lot of the regular service items for a regular car just go away. No more timing belts, no more oil changes. No more starter, no more alternator. All of that stuff is gone. What you are left with is simple stuff - rotate tires, check FE alignment, cabin filter, and top off windshield fluid.

The model I am considering does have glycol coolant to help regulate the temperature of the batteries.

No it doesn't work. It "predicts" incorrect things, so I basically ignore the feature. And the "autocorrect" frequently screws things up that I need to go back and fix if I want the recipient to have some idea what I am talking about.

Maybe you can get 38wpm if I want to send a bunch of indecipherable gibberish.

We have a TiVo box that I bought outright, and we have no Comcast equipment rental fees. The *only* thing we have from Comcast is the cablecard.

We still have them. We bought them outright with the lifetime subscription to eliminate equipment rental fees.

And no, we don't do the streaming. For sports, streaming just doesn't cut it at all.

And with each one of these streaming services there is another monthly fee. I fear we will achieve a balkanization of the streaming market with too many players with inflated ideas as to what their stuff is worth.

You start to add up the monthly fees for all of these, and pretty soon normal cable TV will seem reasonable.

Even that is moving towards streaming. You used to be able to get those "packages" for around 150$ that would let you see every game - you still can, really, but you can instead just sign up for the streaming package instead. The cost is roughly the same, but you aren't tied to your TV provider.

  It is more the casual sports fan that wants to watch the local sports teams that aren't well served. Our local sports channel has steadfastly refused to sell streaming, so you are stuck with a TV package.

The lowest-end TV packages are close to useless - lots of shopping channels, rerun channels, the locals, and a handful of other random things. And ESPN - that costs people 15$/month all by itself even if you never watch it.

We tried an antenna once - the reception was awful, and the programs were awful.

I think it was 20-30 years ago that people were all excited about fullerenes and carbon nanotubes.

Nobody said anything about online banking on the phone.

It is password resets for accounts that are configured to send a SMS as the 2nd factor of authentication.

More updates. Something else to look forward to.

Not directly. But if you no longer need a heavy gearbox, and the motor is smaller/lighter, you could also achieve some gains in efficiency. In theory, anyways.