I'm a teacher and a nerd. AI has basically made me stop using computers in the classroom, which is really too bad but what are you gonna do. But as of a few years ago, Google Classroom was incomparably better than hobbling together some non-Google alternative. You assigned a pdf and a video, they wrote in a Google Doc, you graded it within Google. Easy!

"I would be stressed the whole time about the 2%"
Which is why I stopped and did the 10 minute charge along the way?

"because you always have to charge at some point"
Yes? There are chargers all over the place - even some in Wyoming. Even with our car which is outdated anymore from a range perspective - we have never found a gap bigger than our range other than maybe driving highway 50 in Nevada, which may even be remediated now anyway**. There are so many more chargers available than people think!

And vehicles are getting more and more range too - if you want to go that way. I personally, would save on cost and weight instead of going for massive range because I would rather be more efficient every day, and then charge a little more often on road trips - than take a weight and cost penalty that hurts all the time. But there are options for everyone.


**Looks like the biggest gap across highway 50 - "the loneliest road" - is 211 miles, from Austin NV to the Utah border - which with my range would make me a tad nervous, but would be doable. It would take longer at the charging stops because I would need to go to 100% which is the slow part (20 to 80 is fast). Most of the more common EV ranges are 300 to 400 miles - which I would not be worried about in that stretch. Now the bigger problem is the reliability of the charging networks - that is a real and legit problem that is improving, but still exists. In these "middle of nowhere" situations - they need to work 100% of the time.

I have travelled all over the mountain west on a ICE motorcycle which has a 150 mile range - that was nerve wracking, there are a *lot* of places with more than 150 miles between gas stations, and even some places with gas stations in remote areas - they close early in the evening.

The funny part about this is it seems like the people with the _most_ off street parking are the ones most angry about EVs.

Easily available info shows that New Orleans has over 50 public chargers. They are not hard to find and use.

And why do people keep saying "own" a home? Are renters not allowed to use electricity?

We frequent New Orleans regularly, the only "older city" part with a real lack of off-street parking is the French Quarter and the garden district. Most everywhere else there is suburban. That said, Louisiana does have the lowest number of chargers per-capita of all the states...

I have an EV with mediocre range. This weekend we took a 250 mile round-trip to a rural area with zero public chargers, and the trip calculator put us getting back at home with like 2% - and that wasn't accounting for losses from using the heater. So we stopped once, at an outlet mall, and used a Rivian network charger. We plugged in, went to the bathroom and looked at the "store map" for the mall, unplugged, and drove off. Total elapsed time - 10 minutes. Charging cost, $10. We made it home with 22% remaining charge. Three weeks ago we drove 200 mile loop through a wilderness area, up to the top of a mountain viewpoint and back. Only used electricity from my house - the total electricity cost for the whole loop was $9. No loss of freedom.

The Atto2 is a cheap shitty car that gets middling reviews. It's smaller, less luxurious, and slower than the XC60. For most people, the only reason you'd prefer the Atto2 is that it's cheaper.

I mean, if it actually works it would save a good amount of time and totally be worth it. It's hard to imagine it works well, though.

It should also be noted that the "luddites" were not technophobes.

The luddites were highly technical artisans. They destroyed the machines that made human work a drudge, but they did not destroy all the machines (although they did destroy an entire factory once).

It's only history that rebranded them as idiots and technophobes.

In which case you video the undercarriage before you start towing the car.

If you can prove the undercarriage was totally rusted out before you tow it, then you can save your towing company thousands in liability.

Any convenience store in China will sell 30 types of iced tea.

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Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.

If it doesn't, it has no real value.

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.