I don't know what you mean by that.

The Chinese ones are refined, well made, great EV tech, and cheaper.

They are great cars, and even if you don't want one yourself, they will force other manufacturers to up their game.

Compare MG with similar cars. Look at actual sale prices, not list prices which only exist for tax purposes.

For example, an MG S5 top spec long range is about £23-24k, and a similar size and spec Nissan Qashqai is around £32k. Those are actual sale prices, not list. I'm not even sure anyone makes anything fossil powered that is similar size and spec to the S5, in the same price bracket. Probably another Chinese manufacturer.

Range exceeds bladder capacity so is basically a non-issue for 99% of people. Much, much cheaper to run.

Do you think battery manufacturing really will spin up in the US?

The current administration is hostile to anything that displaces coal and gas, so that's at least another 3 years of uncertainty and lack of support. Meanwhile everyone else surges ahead.

I think the ship may well have sailed on that one, I'm afraid.

You can buy a top spec MG EV around that price now. It's a shame the US banned them, or you would have price parity by now.

Your user-agent being Firefox seems to be a red flag for a lot of these captchas, along with blocking ads, blocking canvas fingerprinting, blocking third party cookies, and basically anything that isn't Chrome's default settings.

How many visitors does it cost you? I often just close sites that demand a captcha, they aren't worth the effort.

Batteries are so cheap now that the payback time is short and new houses should really have them as standard.

15kWh ones are down to about 1,500 Euro if you don't mind doing some assembly yourself.

Also it's going to be in large part due to people rushing to buy them before the tax credit ends.

In any case, the US needs more affordable EVs. In Europe they reached price parity with fossils a while back.

The whole site needs an overhaul. A lot of people don't understand what it is, the search function is a joke, and the upload controls are non-existent.

For some reason they won't accept any outside help. They could be like Wikipedia, with an open source platform that gets updated and maintained for free for them.

It's probably past time we thought about setting up a second Foundation, I mean archive, in Europe, and another in the East.

CZUR scanners are crap. Their software is a buggy mess that ruins otherwise good scans, because it can't cope with shading. It's okay for basic novels, but even then the results are mediocre.

Fujitsu make a similar overhead scanner that uses an actual linear scan head instead of a camera, and it works much better.

For home DIY use, you can build a camera jig and use an old DSLR or phone. Basically you just need something to hold the camera, and something to hold the book, and a light source. You can make one from some plastic pipes and a bit of plexiglass to hold the pages open and flat. It's still a manual process, but it's pretty fast.

Lots of info and photos here: https://diybookscanner.org/for...

Thermal energy storage is a great way to manage this. You can automate it too, having your thermostat automatically adjust based on pricing.

A lot of people in the UK have been doing it for many decades, in fact. Cheap overnight electricity used to heat water and homes, with a signal to turn on and off sent over AM radio. I think it was turned off a few years ago due to the old valves needed to keep the transmitter going becoming unavailable, but these days it can be done via the internet.

This is complete nonsense. Most panels come with a minimum 25 year guarantee, and it's looking like 40 years is not an unrealistic expected lifetime.

Anyone replacing their panels after only 10 years has been conned.

Could be because they want spinning mass to help with stability, or it could be because they want to wring more profit out of an existing investment instead of switching to batteries.

Star Trek was very superficial pop philosophy on that subject. I wish they had done more.