Comment Re:A simple solution (Score 1) 142
Charge by the pound for transportation such as airfare.
Charge by the pound for transportation such as airfare.
if you said at a lower salary than what an american would make, I'd agree. It was never about talent and always about lower wages
of course this is a very limited sample size, but every one of my friends who had sleep apnea were overweight. Their apnea went away after they lost weight.
Of course that solution doesn't play well with pharmaceutical companies nor medical equipment manufacturers.
This should have been address when the Contracts were advertised - the contracting officer should have required all the repair manuals and supplies be available. Easy fix.
The A pillar has gotten huge over time primarily for roll over protection. The dang thing is a big obstruction. I've been driving since 1969 and I now have to move my head sideways to see around those pillars when pulling out onto a road. I frequently get surprised by a car obscured by that pillar.
Make the A pillar thinner and increase the size of the B pillar with added strength in the roof!
Is that as a business which you really want is much much higher turnover than that. You want to get your customers in and then get them out after they've giving you money.
If you're going to have somebody hanging around for 20 to 40 minutes you can't have them doing that if you're not continuously making money off of them. Very few businesses own their land they have to lease it from extremely large corporations and that means they need to be bringing in tons of money continuously for every minute that you're there. Otherwise they won't be profitable enough to pay the rent demanded by the private equity firms that own basically all of the valuable commercial real estate in America.
As a result I think the profitability is going to have to come from selling the electricity itself which means that charging up your electric car is going to be very expensive. More expensive than buying gas...
Right now that's not true but mostly because of heavy duty subsidies from the government. But those subsidies won't last forever.
I don't know solution to that problem either. The reason gas stations work is you get in you buy a bunch of overpriced snacks and drinks and a bit of gas and you get out.
A restaurant might work. They generally want you out of there within half an hour that might be enough time for a quick charge. But if the charging time gets more than that then restaurants are going to have a hard time being profitable on charges without charging for the electricity and making a good profit on top of it
I just did a 1000 mile round trip. I had to refill every 250 miles or so. I estimate the throughput of vehicles refilling their car was about 1 every 5 minutes or so. I'll be liberal and say 6 minutes to get out, refill, get back in and drive off. At a station with 12-pumps that would be 120 cars per hour max. Likely less on average. Assuming 20 minutes to recharge an EV (and that is being liberal), that would be 36 cars per hour max.
It isn't only charge time that is the problem. You have to increase the number of charging stations threefold or more to achieve similar throughput. Will the EV station have the same hourly cash flow? How big of a facility must be built to handle 12 families waiting for their vehicle to recharge? What about those kids traveling? what will they do for 20 minutes?
All Google needs to do is make a serious of large contributions to tRump and his cronies and this whole thing will go away.
isn't that how politicians are created?
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bravo - Long Live critical thinking! Sadly, it is a lost ability. You nailed it.
Musk is extremely well paid and Tesla shareholders would benefit greatly by cutting his job. As a tech leader, I'm sure he'll embrace this idea willingly.
Just give the automakers a mandatory goal and timeframe. Let them decide what works best and let them figure out which is the cheapest/easiest way to do it. Let them figure out the logistics of changing fuel source or charging.
They said the same thing about automatics killing the stick shift. I love the automatic in my pickup and I also love the automatic in my old Jeep TJ.
tell me again whY don't have to fear rouge AIs?
a 10-year plus car is fairly easy and economical to maintain by the owner. My 2016 RAM has 106K on it and I'll likely drive it another 10 years. My 2003 Jeep TJ has 160K and I will get the same although I might have to replace the motor.
I doubt a you can say the same about an EV.
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