Comment Re: no shit (Score 1) 209
Ok, YOU explain why they would rather shut it down and get $0 than sell it and make some money. Remember, your explanation has to make sense, you can't just repeat whatever their PR department is saying.
Ok, YOU explain why they would rather shut it down and get $0 than sell it and make some money. Remember, your explanation has to make sense, you can't just repeat whatever their PR department is saying.
You can't see why a corporation would say things that aren't true?
KDE3 is the one I like to describe as an explosion in a widget factory.
4 had promise but didn't develop it until it became 5.
5 has a bad bug with wine programs, some of them will only run in the background. Haven't tried to see if 6 has the same problem...
I don’t disagree with that. I guess we just have different perspectives on whether the requirement that all new auto sales be EVs in 20XX is sensible regulation or social engineering. This is something reasonable people can reasonably disagree on.
1. OK, the reason you didn’t recognise those names is that you’re not much immersed in the world of EVs. The Taycan is Porsche’s four door sedan EV. Obviously, you’ve heard of Porsche. It has been a significant commercial success. The EQA is Mercedes-Benz’s smallest SUV. Obviously, you’ve heard of Mercedes too. CATL and BYD are two of the largest EV battery makers on the planet. They supply batteries for lots of marques you have heard of: CATL supplies BMW, Hyundai, Honda, Tesla, VW, Toyota, and Volvo, while BYD supplies Toyota, Ford, Kia and Lincoln. They both supplies lots of other marques too. Zoes were made by Renault, who you might actually not have heard of, as they don’t deliver to the US, but they are a large French automaker.
2. Yes, these new batteries also charge faster than the old ones. For example, the Taycan’s charging is now 18 minutes 0 to 80%, down from 22.5 minutes. No, that’s not as fast as an ICE car. But you can charge a Taycan at home, and you can’t (easily) do that with an ICE car.
3. Yes, infrastructure is an issue and requires a big build-out to make EVs convenient in much of the US, and who knows if it will ever happen. But the point of my previous post wasn’t to say that EVs are good enough yet, it was to say that batteries truly are improving fast, and will continue to do so for many years to come. Who knows when they’ll charge as fast as an ICE vehicle fuels. Possibly never, maybe there’ll be physical limits. But then, TSMC just announced a 1.6nm chip is on the way, which most folks would have thought impossible just a few years ago. Fingers crossed battery improvements end up the same way.
Well it doesn't mention the collab with Sony, so yes I don't think it's complete.
In relation to cars, the government tells you:
- You have to buy a car that has headlights, blinkers, seatbelts, and a gazillion other regulated safety features
- You have to drive the car the same side of the road as everyone else, you have to stop at stop signs and at reds, etc
- You have to register your car, have insurance and get a licence, etc
Which of those do you refuse to do on principle because the government is telling you what to do?
I dunno how they’ve achieved better densities using cylindrical rather than prismatic. My best guess is it’s due to a better density achievable *within* each cell, even if that comes at the expense of less efficient packing of the cells. In any event, it’s what BMW say has led to greater density, and I can’t see a reason why they’d say an untruth about this, and their engineers will certainly know lots more about this topic than I do.
Of three things that could be called childish: thinking a car is better because of the sound it makes, calling that sound vroom-vroom, or getting in a snit because someone called that sound vroom-vroom, the latter is comfortably the most childish.
Your powers of deduction have failed you and you were confidently wrong, just like my annoying 14 year old nephew: I’m 50, not a kid.
And “newsflash” — if you want to prove you’re terribly mature and not at all childish like moi, then using phrases like “newsflash” kinda undermines your position. Especially as you seem to think that the only driving that counts is driving above 30mph, whereas urban driving and the noise and tailpipe emissions it generates is a major source of harm to human and animal health, and also constitutes the bulk of all driving journeys.
They're laying out their plans for up to the end of the decade. You think this is just a fraction of their NA plans, that they're hiding things from their giant "Look, We're Doing EVs!" press release?
I mean, I’ve literally put my money where my mouth is and bought 4 EVs so far, and the experience has been excellent each and every time. Sono.
More than half the world’s population is urban
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
