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Comment Lost Battle (Score 1) 97

It is 9.7km/kWh, which is indeed impressive. My 2025 Equinox EV is 5.1 km/kWh, but is a much bigger car. My husband's smaller 2017 Bolt EV is rated at 5.7 km/kWh. In the real world, the Equinox actually uses less than the Bolt because of the heat pump.

Marketing was NEVER going to allow units like mi/kWh or km/kWh to be used for flashy new EVs, since those (single-digit!) numerical values would be so much smaller than per gallon figures.

Comment Re:It's because it takes away from the state lotte (Score 1) 132

The difference has nothing to do with the knowledge.

In the stock market, the money put in is actually used to advance the value of the stock. It's an investment just like you paying somebody to make widgets (that manufacturer could screw up his work and lose all your money, but that possibility does not make it gambling). In polymarket the money you put in is not used in any way to advance the outcome you are betting on.

Comment Re:Should have brought them out sooner (Score 1) 157

Even being relatively more rare isn't an issue right now, or it might be, but only in a very few places. Most of the time, the chargers are empty. One presumes as EVs become more popular, there will be even more charging stations. One of the major gas stations in Canada (Petro Canada) even has its own chargers at some stations.

Also, I think PHEVs may be a good alternative right now, since something like 90% of people's driving is 50km per day, and most PHEVs can handle that on a charge. Then you plug in at night and you're gtg. They would represent a major reduction in fuel consumption if we just got that far.

Comment Re:If they can't figure out EV (Score 1) 157

Since I charge overnight (from an outdoor outlet, not even an L2 charger), I never have less than a 60% charge on my car at home. I spend less time overall at stops if you consider the totality of my life than when I had a petrol or diesel car. I recently drove 400km each way to another city, and I spent about 20 minutes at one L3 charger on the way there, and maybe 30 minutes total charging on the way back, and I needed to walk around and go to the washroom anyway. There's basically no difference in my road trip times from before. I used to be able to get about 1100km on a single tank of diesel with my VW wagon (my Ioniq 6 gets "only" 520km on a 90% charge), but I still had to stop every few hours to pee and stretch my legs and take on food. The human body is not meant to drive 6 hour stints. (I raced bikes and had a girlfriend in the USA in my 30s so I would drive 600km each way on a weekend on a fairly regular basis. No regrets, but I don't recommend that as a way to spend your time.)

Comment Re:If they can't figure out EV (Score 1) 157

I just drove 400km each way to visit family in another city. I'm Canadian, and the distances between cities here are considerably longer on average than in the USA. I had no problem charging in the middle of large mountain parks where there was otherwise no mobile phone reception. This is such a stunningly brain-dead take, I can only assume you've never actually driven anywhere with your eyes open. There are L2 and L3 charging stations everywhere even here. I live in a town of 30k people and I could go charge at some Mercedes 800v superchargers if I wanted to. I have a very hard time believing that Canada is ahead of the USA in infrastructure in this regard.

Also, while my townhouse has a driveway, I'm only using my outdoor outlet to charge right now. It's fine.

Submission + - A mini-data center in your back yard?

NewtonsLaw writes: According to this story, US homebuilder PulteGroup has plans to equip new homes with a mini-data center so as to relieve the need to build and power much larger tradtional centers.

The article states the company "it can install 8,000 XFRA units about six times faster and at five times lower cost than the construction of a typical centralized 100 megawatt data center of the same size"

Could this be the solution to at least some of the problems hindering the roll-out of greater data-center capacity for AI systems?

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