What makes you think having a couple of 1000 chargers in a continent where over 1million already exists makes anyone beholden to a foreign government?
You posted this on a device made in China you hypocrite. YOU GONNA DIE BECAUSE CHINA!
Another app, another account, more random issues with authorization and connectivity - nice! I already have 11 charging apps on my phone that need updating, password resetting, etc.
TFS is talking about Europe where every DC fast charger is required by law to be usable with a credit card, pay on demand, and all chargers including L2 AC chargers are required to be usable without an app.
The reason my next EV is a Tesla.
Because you like Tesla's app better simply because it's pre-installed on your little walled garden of choice?
Yes exactly. Just like literally every DC fast charger currently on the market.
No we typically place chargers in places where there is no power.
Seriously though, if you're going for dumbest Slashdot comment you're not putting a lot of effort in.
Except the battery is under the flesh bags in the seats who dislike a 40C ass baking in all but the coldest of conditions.
That's not relevant, heat doesn't remain at the source, not in any example cited, not in an ICE not in a battery pack. Also the fleshbags are not sitting on a battery, they are sitting on a seat, mounted with an airgap above a frame mounted above a battery, and a trivial amount of insulation means they wouldn't see even a single degree of temperature rise in the cabin.
You are inventing problems that have been solved in the most trivial of ways.
Also WTF are you talking about, if it's anything less than sunny outside people pay extra for heating in the cabin, and my heated seat system definitely is higher than 40C. Are you suggesting "coldest of conditions" for someone living in Tropical Australia?
I assume the EV stays turned on and runs a cooling loop and blasts hot air out a radiator somewhere, but even that has to have its limits?
BYD's massive benefit here was producing a cell with lower internal resistance and thus lower heating losses during charging than traditional cells for the same power. Yes cooling has its limits, and BYD (along with many other companies) use active cooling during fast charging, but they solved the problem from a different angle and didn't actually get anywhere near the cooling problem limits.
For the record Blade chargers and the cars which support them are not the first megawatt scale chargers out there. The MCS already has customers and examples mostly in the commercial world, but BYD's blade solution provides far *less* cooling than the MCS implementations already out there.
He advocates banning electric cars because...tires. He has impaired reasoning skills, secondary to FASD. Don't bother.
I think you're talking about the wrong person. rsilvergun says a lot of stupid shit, but you're thinking about a different Slashdotter.
There are some people who don't want credit card or debit cards and gift cards allowed them to budget and avoid uncontrolled spending.
This is quite possibly one of the dumbest things I've heard. If you're in this situation there has to be a better option that storing your cash temporarily at a vendor in the form of a promised credit.
Why do I went to send my ID screenshots and personal info to people who have demonstrated they already can't be trusted.
Why can't they be trusted? They aren't the ones scamming you.
Does the banana curve to the right or the left?
It seems silly but this is all because mistakes happen. I can't go an donate blood without being asked for my date of birth 3 times, once by the receptionist giving me the forms to fill out, one by the doctor prep pepping the conditions of the donation, and one by the nurse reading the chart.
The friend cited above apparently also had the doctor ask her to confirm which leg needed surgery which is fun given one is normal and the other was blue with bruising, massively swollen, and resting on the remains of the freshly cut-off cast.
I used to wonder of what cases led to the kinds of fuckups this is intended to avoid, but then I looked through a history of medical malpractice and quickly stopped before I got depressed.
DNS blocklists are not content based, and blocking apps is not a unified solution, and also one that is trivially and universally bypassed (see TikTok / Facebook bans). You're back to individual apps which does not meet the intent of this law.
OS level except *maybe* for the camera
That would break all camera apps that rely on RAW processing, which very much is a thing on phones as well.
Christ this comment is tired. Maybe if the US turned off all electricity they'll actually *start* polluting as much as an average Chinese person. But you probably think you have a god given fucking right to produce more CO2 emissions than someone with yellow skin and a squint right? Because that's what you're currently doing.
Why do you think you deserve to fuck up the planet more? Tell us all without sounding like a racist fuck.
Net Present Value is a concept you will find in all kinds of Corporate Finance textbooks, well, do I need to say more?
Well... no... I'm sorry how do you intend to do an investment without using the standard metrics used for financial accounting of investments? NPV isn't some crazy mythical number fuckery, it's a very standard accounting method for investment decisions. I learned it in highschool, this isn't even university grade stuff.
Also I'm not sure what your point is. NPV already takes into account LCoE in its calculation, which is the standard used for power generation. And in many cases around the world the NPV calculation also favours solar + storage over coal.
You're raging against the wrong point. Deniers are making up numbers when quoting NPV, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with NPV itself.
"I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens." -- Woody Allen
