I dread to see what happens to EVs, will an EV still be usable 130 years from now like antique cars are now ? I dread to see how software is updated in those as manufactures change hands. No wonder landfills are filling up with toxic waste.
A current gasoline-powered car today has more computers in it than an EV - Managing the ignition, emissions and a myriad of other things - So this issue of cars not lasting a century is not EV-specific.
(That being said, in 130 years, a tinkerer will plug in their quantum-computer pocket computer and the AGI AI will simply rewrite the code. EV or gasoline-powered.)
You could force Americans out of their cars and onto your buses and trains at gunpoint.
Nah.
If you're sitting in gridlock traffic for an hour, and you're watching clean comfortable buses zoom by in their own dedicated lanes with the people on board watching Netflix on their phones it doesn't take much to get people to move onto buses and trains.
Takes more planning as you also have to warn the car when you're heading to the charging station so the battery can be preheated.
Depends on the EV. In my car, I have the option to turn on "Winter Mode" which automatically preheats the battery when its cold, so I don't have to think about it or plan.
I rarely use DC fast chargers, so it's off in my car, despite living in Canada.
It turns out that very few people use a passenger EV to do multi-hundred mile commutes in sub-freezing temperatures.
On a per-capita basis, very few people do multi-hundred mile commutes in sub-freezing temperatures, period.
In any kind of vehicle.
In the USA, the average commute is 20 miles each way.
Sure, if you want your kids to ask you to drop them off a block from school because they don't want to be seen getting out of a minivan.
Shrug.
I'm the boss, not them. If they want to get out a block earlier, than that's on them.
Sorry if your kids are in charge, but that's not the case in my house.
It's not my job to make them seem "cool."
You want Trump to be the first octogenarian billionaire POTUS to land on the moon?
Yes, provided NASA leaves him there.
peaceful protesters
"Peaceful protestors?" Fuck RIGHT off.
There were making lives a living hell for people living in downtown Ottawa. For week after week.
They had people in their midst waving NAZI flags. They were ignorant cultish fools who couldn't even state a policy platform beyond "Fuck Trudeau."
I hate seeing science infected by trans ideology.
And I hate how Slashdot is "infected" by people who lack even a basic understanding of science, and refer to science as "ideology."
Let me explain it to you AGAIN.
Humans have three characteristics: 1) Sex, 2) Gender and 3) Orientation.
Sex: Whether you have male or female reproductive organs (or, in some rare cases, both).
Gender: Whether your brain considers you to be a man or a woman, or somewhere in-between.
Orientation: Whether you are sexually attracted to someone with male sex, female sex, both, or none.
So yes, someone can have female sex and be pregnant, but be a man.
Judging by your ignorance I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess your sex is male, your gender is man and your orientation is attracted to female sex. And that you have trouble getting laid.
Otherwise the car has proven exceptionally reliable so far. But stats posed by Consumer Reports would have you believe otherwise, which is misleading, I think.
Welcome to statistics. When "x% of people had problems", that means "(100-x)% of people did not have problems". The report of one person (such as your report) can't really tell you much about the stats posted by Consumer Reports, other than that you, in particular, are in the second category. You would want at least a few dozen, if not a few hundred, well selected reports before you can have any confidence in the actual value of "x".
The by-product of using hydrogen and oxygen as fuel is the waste product is H2O, but that's only if you burn O2.
But combustion of hydrogen in air results, yes, in water, but also in Nitrogen Oxide (NOx), which is a lot worse than CO2.
Really? Is the heat released by the [H2 + H2 + O2] -> [H2O + H2O] reaction cause the atmospheric nitrogen to get converted?
Well, live and learn I guess - https://www.power-eng.com/hydr...
For automotive internal combustion applications, couldn't that get dealt with by the catalytic converter? For fuel cell applications, I don't think it is an issue at all (relatively low temperatures don't seem to produce the NOx byproducts)
you'll realize how unfathomably small it is.
Yep. I never flew on one, but I've stepped inside the one at the Seattle Museum of Flight. I'm 6'2 and it's a tight squeeze.
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