I wonder if they are applying discounts for their own repair work. Tesla cars are notoriously expensive to repair and not all accidents are your own fault and not all other drivers are insured or will own up to a parking lot incident.
This is what $30k of damage looks like.
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This is unlikely to happen a second time.
Come the next election, the US public and media will have their troll detectors on full sensitivity. Particularly where nasty Kremlin types are involved.
The biggest battery in the Tesla vehicles is 90kW/h, with 200 watts of solar panels on the roof of a vehicle left out in the sun all day might generate 1kW/h, or about 1%. Not enough to make a big difference. If electric cars were lighter and used less power it may make more difference.
Do you live somewhere metric? 62mph isn't fast.
3,000kms in 30 hours = 100km/h. Sustained speeds of 100km/h powered purely by solar energy is fast, really fast and a big improvement from the race beginning.
67 km/h (42 mph) was the average speed on the first race in 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Apart from Northern Territory, the maximum speed limit is 110km/h on major highways in Australia with most roads being 100km/h.
This race is driving big improvements in electric vehicle technology, just what we need if we are going to exit fossil fuels any time soon.
When the performance of these things starts to drop off and they all need to be replaced, are people going to get sticker shock when they not only have to pay more to replace them but have to pay to dispose of the old ones because of "toxic" materials?
Nothing is more toxic than the waste from a Nuclear power station which stays toxic for hundreds of thousands of years.
Coal fired power stations need constant maintenance of their turbines, generators and the equipment that digs the coal from the ground and transports it to the power station.
Coal gets more expensive, Nuclear material (both the initial purchase of, and the disposal of) gets more expensive.
Once you have the renewable infrastructure installed, the cost of the energy ( Solar, wind and water) is the same cost it always was - free!
Sylvester Stallone - Cliffhanger
"it costs a fortune to heat this place"
Feeding $100 notes into a fire to keep warm
Does this mean you will use Bing to do your searches from now on?
I delivered pizza in college. 2 large Everything pizza's and 4 litres of Diet Coke. Who orders that? Yep, every time.
Notice the same too
It is no the calorie free sweetener that is making the people fat, it allows them to get stuck into more unhealthy food than they would otherwise.
I watch the people who pull out the packet of artificial sweeteners to add to their cup of tea/coffee, then when the deserts come around, they have multiple helpings.
Then wonder why they put on weight
Wishful thinking, I would like to see a self driving car launch a boat at a boat ramp, tow a trailer, self driving tip truck, crane or any other special purpose vehicle.
electric vehicles will happen, so will self driving cars, I can't see a sudden cutoff date.
I think it's a great thing that people who typically vote for more corporate freedom finally get to see the price of unrestrained corporatism.
Let market forces run their course.
Like any monopoly that overcharges for their product, someone will develop an open source tractor that can be put together out of generic parts that some enterprising group have developed and controlled by an Arduino / Raspberry Pi or similar.
Why am I not surprised, this is performance based management at its finest. Set unrealistic KPI's to ensure only the fittest and strongest (or the biggest BSers survive).
Your crop is ready to harvest and your tractor won't start, not because there is any technical problem with the tractor but a software time bomb that you must then pay the dealer many hundreds of dollars to re-enable the software so you can use your tractor.
This is blackmail in my books.
but if it's the last competitor and it'll become a monopoly it's a pretty big deal
I will be voting with my wallet - I clearly remember back in the 486 days when Intel had the monopoly and were charging more than $1000 for a processor chip, because they could. They were worth more per ounce than gold was at the time.
We need to maintain competition - Well done AMD, I hope your product lives up to expectations.
I think Hyrdo is a great power source. But nothing comes without trade-offs. I think most here are willing to trade off the things I listed above for the benefits of hydro.
Agree but...Fresh drinking water is and will always be the most precious commodity on this planet.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
