Up to about 8-9 hours in the UK, south cast to Scotland or vice versa.

No you don't understand, he needs to drive 900 miles with no notice. He keeps 100 gallons of petrol in his garage just in case. Stopping even for 10 minutes means his relative will die seconds before he arrives!

Seriously, he told me that 15 minutes of charging over a 5 hour drive would cause him to miss his flight once. The more you investigate these non-negotiable needs he has, the more laughable they become.

It's more like the United States isn't great for long road trips. You have a much worse selection of EVs than Europe, and a much worse charging situation.

My EV is great for long journeys. Cruises very well quiet and comfortable. I just drive until the battery gets down to 20% and then pull in at the next service area, have a quick cup of coffee while it charges and then I'm on my way again. I'd have stopped anyway for comfort.

The UK is introducing per-mile charging in 2028. It will be 3p/mile for fully electric cars. No CAN bus device needed, no location tracking required. They just note the mileage on the odometer at the annual inspection.

Obviously I like the current 0p/mile better, but £300/10,000 miles is still well below fossil costs.

It's the UK, of course public charging is largely a rip off. Tesla is the cheapest most of the time. Out of hours they are as low as 35p sometimes.

The government has told local authorities to make charging at home possible for more people. Some allow cables over the pavement, as long as they are safely covered. Some allow channels to but cut into the pavement too. They are going to have to do something more substantial though.

Have a look on YouTube for guys that tow with an EV. It's perfectly doable. Bjorn Nyland used to it to regularly for his side gig job (some sort of app based delivery thing) in a Model X around 2017. Today there are some US channels that do it with EV trucks, like Ageing Wheels.

You just have to stop and charge more often, that's all. For a couple of times a year, all the other time saving and benefits on the other 363 days more than make up for it. Modern EVs charge super fast anyway. You are talking tens of extra minutes on a several hour journey.

First drive a Leaf back around 2012, and I wouldn't have gone back after that, even with the small battery. These days a long range, very well specced EV is around the same price as a fossil here, but of course much much cheaper to run and much much better to drive.

Paid for IBrowse and I think AWeb back in the day too. But that was two decades ago.

There is Firefox Focus, which is minimal and free.

Thanks, I didn't know that, although it makes complete sense.

That does make a lot more sense.

The rebranded ones were the best: https://i0.wp.com/applerescueo...

I think Fujifilm had them as well. Always white.

I still have Jaz drives. Or Jiz Drives, as they are now known thanks to GTA2.

I think it's the USB to SCSI adapter I have, but the performance is really bad. I need to boot up an old XP machine and try it, ideally with a proper SCSI card. I've got a PCI one, but what I really need is a PCMCIA one.

The computer I connected by first Zip 100 drive to had an 80MB hard drive.

The hope is that at least one of them can beat the Chinese to it.

SpaceX is iterating but hasn't yet reliably reached orbit with unmanned ships, and needs to develop several more technologies to actually land. They need to do in-orbit refuelling, fly to the moon, and then demonstrate a soft landing (without anything to catch it like they have on Earth), and finally ascend to lunar orbit again (the crew will then transfer to Orion for the return trip).

Blue Origin haven't launched anything, but tend not to until they are fairly sure it is going to work. Their scaled down model will need to be followed by a full size one close to what they intend to land with a crew.

China has shown full scale models of their lander, but not yet flown any of the system. Like Blue Origin, they tend not to iterate like SpaceX, they fly stuff when they are fairly sure it is going to work. They look to be on target for 2029 though.

It sounds like a bug. Tesla did the same thing and it resulted in a lot of Teslas dying prematurely because the flash memory wore out due to all the logging.

They tried to charge people to fix it too.