A new technology doesn't take over overnight.

For new car purchases in europe as a whole 2024 was 15% EV, 2025 was 19% EV.
Pure ICE engines (diesel and petrol) fell from 47% to 37% in the same timeperiod.

Middle of the day here in Queensland, Australia - renewables are providing 63.2% of our total energy

This is a shock to clueless CEOs who have never spoken to anyone forced to buy Chromebooks outside of enterprise agreements where nothing matters to either side except the number of zeroes on the invoice.

Our small business has had about 30 people on Chromebooks for about five years now. These have, generally, been great - most of them cost less than AUD$700, though they've gotten more expensive.

We've been buying Intel i5 CPUs with 8GB of RAM. These run most stuff with no problems.

But in true PC style, what the manufacturers have done is make a billion different models with different specs such that there is actually a dramatic difference in performance between them. You can buy something with an AMD CPU with 4GB of RAM and it's a piece of shit - but you won't know until you get it home and try it, because you just bought "a Chromebook".

We started buying i7/16GB models from Dell - these ones fly and are great. But then they simply stopped selling them. For two years they couldn't tell me what their Chromebook strategy was, because they only care about schools.

I think Apple will clean up here by making it simple - there are a small handful of models that are easily differentiable. They're Apple branded so they will be immediately more coveted than a random Chromebook thing.

I'll be buying some of these to replace our aging Chromebooks for sure. Keen to see how they go.

It's a shame because the i7/16GB Chromebooks are awesome to use.

They mean Data Centre.

The advantage of at-scale lithium is the technology advances will trickle down to home users. I have a 30kWh home battery that was about $6k installed and retrofitted (AC coupled, ick I know) into my 12 kW solar system. This is battery slimline and about the size of two suitcases (it's two 15kWh stacks linked together). It charges in full by 12 noon on sunny days (with me then actively sending power back to the grid) and usually by end of day on overcast days.

If it was cheaper, but:
- required 2x as much charging (meaning i would rarely fill it, or needed double the solar)
- was several times as large

I would likely not consider it.

Any tech making home batteries cheaper/longer lifespan/denser is a win for people like me.

Is solar just not a big thing in the US? I'd guess 1/4 of houses around here have it. Closer to 1/2 depending on the exact neighbourhood. Checking google maps (which is a bit out of date) 15/40 houses on my "block" (suburban street loop) have it.

My car cost 48k AUD, which translates to 34k USD. So if I had 200k I could almost buy 6. I'm guessing they're provide a discount for a 6pack to make it under 200k.

That's without any sort of rebate/incentive/etc. It's not the cheapest car in the world, but not extravagant.

90% of my EV charging comes from my own solar. I'd hope most people with EVs have solar and a battery.

Hyundai's Ioniq series (5 specifically) is amazing. Kia EV6 is also quite strong.

Delightful explanation and now forever in my brain fusion will be "squeezing the wriggling eel with magnets"

If I really wanted to watch or read terminal sufferers of TDS, I'd watch BS-NOW or browse BlewSky... Maybe this outbreak of TDS on Slashdot is intentional, it's a last-ditch attempt to boost traffic.

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... please form an orderly line on the right.

Google is already been sued for this very thing..

Don't forget that term has a slightly different nuance to us aussies

You had me until there. I am pretty sure this is a troll that's going over 95% of people's heads, but if not then ... no. that is not an acceptable use care for a typical home office.

And that's minimum. Cafes etc will almost always pay minimum, but any sort of fine dining pays more.