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Comment Re:Used vehicles... (Score 2) 50

If I had to deal with this I’d find and disable the cellular antenna used to actually communicate but it’s sad that’s what it’s come to. Some vehicles start spazzing when they can’t contact home and try over and over and over creating unnecessary drain and a dead battery in about a week or two. In that case I’d add a relay that physically removes its power source when the vehicle is off.

Comment Re:Glad the US public sees further than Trump (Score 5, Insightful) 180

Glad the US public sees further than Trump. With seeing further I mean the greater good of the environment.

Quite a bit of it is the better performance and lower maintenance, but with battery prices dropping like a stone if not already then very soon it will be the cheapest, highest performance, and by far the most reliable option. People will look back on internal combustion as noisy, polluting, weak, and Rube Goldberg esque.

Comment Re:Getting to be meaningless stat... (Score 1) 117

15 minutes is a plenty fast recharge time to go from 20% to 80% on a decent size battery

what, like a 75kWh battery? So 60% is 45kWh in 15 min, or 180kW? 180kW?!? That’s charging at a mere 241 horsepower, a mere toot of energy usage. Kind sir, in order to truly experience the raw power potential, I get up daily at 4 am and start my elite training regimen to be able to actually unhook the 6” diameter liquid helium cooled superconducting cable able to meet the demand of charging a 100kWh pack in 0.3 seconds. I hook it up and with effortless precision open the 1.21 gigawatt floodgates of continuously channeled electrical explosion. Only then is it practical to take a trip, get some perspective and maybe a flux capacitor.

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