Hybrids are great, but for a minivan, the fuel savings vs a diesel is very moderate if any. Don't exclude Euro6 diesel, they are also very clean and super economical

Tesla numbers are going down, Ford are laying off thousands of people and reviving the “cancelled” petrol models, all manufacturers are backtracking on their electrification ambitions drastically. The article says 97k, not 120.7k, you are speaking about a future number that may or may not happen, let’s look at actual numbers. So that’s what 0.9% of Toyota non EV sales? (they sold 10.3m cars in 2023).

No matter how you slice it, this article is misleading.

It’s nice to look at all of these relative numbers, if you’re starting from 1, then 2 is a 100% increase, wow. But this is still 1 in 8 cars and 40-60% of those are already planning a migration back to non-EV - this is while sizeable subsidies are in place.

We see in Norway in order to get people to buy EVs they pay roughy €30,000 in subsidies, plus they pay the tolls, parking and charging - then it’s a no brainer, but most owners have it as a second car. This is not sustainable without a rich oil economy that’s paying for this there. In Germany they reduced subsidies and sales dropped 40%, subsidies in the US are going away so what will the drop be? - in the UK we saw around a 9% drop in private EV sales in 2024, there are countless second hand EVs all over autotrader that are up for many months at huge discounts.

Writing an article about a 30k car increase is laughable.

We're talking about 30,000 cars here, Toyota sold 2,332,623 and they were not EVs. Sure, in every population of 330,000,000, you'll find 30,000 that will buy just about anything.

30k cars in total, this is 0.002% of cars on the road, it's a margin error, if it was down or up 30k, it makes absolutely no difference. This article is just another piece of nothing dressed up as good news for EVs, it isn't. Toyota sold 2,332,623 non EVs for context...

I don't understand the point of this article, we're talking about 30k cars, this is nothing, a margin error....

For example, the adoption rate of EVs in the UK is around 3%, this number is starting to fall now that subsidies are going away, less than 10% of car buyers even consider an EV except for heavily subsidised fleet vehicles. 40-60% of existing EV owners are planning to move back. Adding/removing 30,000 cars makes no difference to the landscape either way.

The largest car manufacture in the world, Toyota, predicts we will gradually go from the 3% to maybe 10-15% EV marketshare by 2050 globally, at the current trajectory even this seems optimistic.

Let's not forget, the UK is a developed country and this 3% adoption is rather high vs many parts of the world, think Africa.

Personally 10 years ago I bought a diesel and thought this is going to be my last ICE car before I get an EV, but here we are 10 years later and I bought another diesel because I do not have access to off street parking and public charging costs abound 2-3x the price of diesel per mile.

They clearly ran out of things to call racist so now it's just the "Internet", including access to the Internet

Yes, just jaw dropping this qualifies for "research". Electricity cost is often 3-4x more expensive, which makes sense for the reasons you covered. In the UK at least houses are not well insulated, some insulation is being subsidised such as cavity and loft insulation, but it's very difficult, expensive and often simply impossible to retrofit good insulation - a requirement for heatpumps to operate well. Your costs to install a ground source heatpump can be as much as £45,000 (vs £1,500 for a new very economical and efficient boiler that can be up to 90% efficient if installed well). Anecdotally heat pumps are less reliable and more costly to maintain in the long run too. They are also very noisy and can be a nuisance to neighbours or if you like to use your garden.

Worst of all, after this eye watering expense, the owners of the system often complain it takes too long to kick in, the radiators are luke warm, often they have to use conventional electric heaters to supplement the heatpumps.

I've seen that site maybe 18 months ago and it seems the release date keeps getting pushed back. Loads of publicity, yes, but I'll believe it when I can buy one.

I've seen this Rasberry Pi thing a few times now over the past few years and I still can't find it anywhere for sale. Vapourware?

For example AMD64 which actually has a practical 48-bit address space allows 65,000 times the address space of 32-bit at a small processing overhead. An address space of 128bit is significantly bigger than all the data stored on earth. There is nothing innovative about getting an address space that big, it's just plain pointless at this point in time.

ARM are not trying to be the fastest or most forward thinking, they are trying to be cost effective and power efficient and a 64-bit version of their chip would free developers from the 4GB address space limit of 32-bit - to one over 65,000 times larger.

I can't stress this enough, this isn't a factor of 2x or a factor of 10x or even 1000x larger, this is a factor of 65,000x times larger...

I'll do you the opposite for my Linux box

There are plenty of privilege escalation and remote access exploits on that site. Some patched, some unpatched (not everyone keeps up to date with updates). Did you even look at the list there?

Anyway, a lot of exploits there are remote access exploits. The exploit talked about in this story is a local privilege escalation exploit way down on the severity list and it was patched before it became public.

Just a quick google search: http://secunia.com/advisories/41122

There are quite a few listed on secunia, it's a really good site. Currently lists 10 unpacked vulnerabilities in Windows Vista, none for Linux surprisingly, it must be a conspiracy against Microsoft and those damn Linux fanboys.

What if you dont run Windows? - Or run an unsupported version of windows for that matter?