It's interesting that they would start with intentionally inhuman motion for a humanoid robot, but it's a robot, not a nightmare.
Also please nobody bring up the 'uncanny valley.' As an insight it's played out, especially since this isn't a robot that is ever supposed to appear human.
Then again, maybe AI will discover cold fusion and cheap carbon sequestration.
No, my point is explicitly that, gas car or BEV, if I'm driving from St. Catharines to North Bay, I'm stopping an on route just south of Barrie to eat. With a gas car, I'm fueling up, then eating. With a BEV, I'm plugging in, then eating.
The fact that *you* wouldn't do it the way *I* do it doesn't negate the fact that for my process, which includes a half-hour break *either way,* it's more efficient to charge while taking that break than it is to fuel up, then take that break.
Don't you just love those meetings that could have been resolved by email?
"Could have" if only human nature were different than it actually is?
Everything in my experience tells me that the vast majority of people will never mentally process a complex email message. They don't even pretend to. "I told you (in an email)" carries zero weight.
I'm in Canada too! The 'On' part of 'On Route' is a reference to Ontario.
And yeah, the only reason I'm stopping to eat at Innisfil on my way from, say, St. Catharines to North Bay is because insidious corporate advertising is luring me in. Ok, bro.
"California Tops US EV Adoption: 25% EV Share Of Total Sales In H1 2023"
https://www.newsweek.com/texas...
And yet, electricity in Texas cost 11.36 cents / kWh vs 19.90 cents / kWh in California in Jan 2024.
https://www.electricchoice.com...
So where does that leave the idea that renewable energy must be very expensive?
Also I'm curious where 40 cents above came from.
As long as renewables are just cutting into demand for fossil fuels, you don't have to worry about storage / demand shaping / discarding energy. But now California has reached that point.
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