I'd argue that it is still a factor.
Not a lot of convertibles in Alaska.

And there are vehicles up there that, despite being all ICE, that work better or worse to the point that yes, it is an issue.

Then keep in mind that we're still effectively with the "first year" models. Odds are the underperforming companies will fix their performance sooner or later, or get outcompeted by those that do.

Plus, IBM owns RedHat. So that's probably something. Then again, maybe that is the hyper growth software and services bit that they want to keep.

Real world testing gives a wide variety of range reduction in cold weather, depending on the make and model of EV. Some are really good at maintaining range, some are lousy at it.
In any case, preheating the cabin and battery cuts that substantially, and you generally don't need to keep warming the battery while driving as the regular discharge and charging from regenerative braking keeps the battery at operating temperature to limit range loss.
It's a contribution, but it isn't something like 30% is what he's getting at. More likely ~5%.

When I was travelling in the third world about 25 years ago one of the locals was telling me how, unlike developed countries, everyone who could afford it had to buy a generator to produce power when the grid couldn't.

Yeah.

Reliable power is just so 20th century. Probably fascist too.

> They were workers from Hyundai which were setting up a battery plant and EV manufacturing plant in Georgia who were there to oversee the construction and the training of American workers

And presumably didn't bother to get visas?

They seem to have dropped a lot in the UK as well if the Youtube video I watched the other day was showing real numbers.

Though much of the problem may be that most working people there simply can't afford any kind of new car any more. They have to be on welfare to buy one.

"He who does not work shall not eat" - Lenin

I now pay for high-speed Internet so I can sit waiting for 20 seconds for Cloudflare to "check I'm human" when I click on a link.

Technology destroying their 'security system' sounds like a good thing to me.

That doesn't change that if you're looking at comparative advantage - most CO2 saved for a given amount of battery, for example, delivery vans are an obvious pick before the EV freight trucks.
Though even with the freight trucks, one could concentrate on local delivery routes before longer haul ones to maximize savings.

This guy specifically invited this result with his "All copyright is void because Covid and we say so" bullshit, and his surprised Pikachu face and heartfelt appeals are infuriating. He hasn't just damaged the Archive, his moronic actions killed the idea of format shifting being legally acceptable.

$10 for a hard pull seems crazy, hopefully the rest of the banking industry destroys these rent seeking assholes.

Me: you know, many businesses already change between summer and winter schedules; many retail stores, many services, many public transit operators.....

how the hell could they make the "just one administrator" mistake?

It's not a mistake, because it's not a 'permissions/who can be administrator' 'mistake.' It's the account owner. It's the person who's credit card is on file.

Ahhhh, tell me you're a midwit without telling me you're a midwit.

I got a STEM scholarship to one of the world's top five universities. It's now down to about twentieth because of DIE but at the time it was a pretty hot deal.

It was a waste of a few years of my life and if I'd had to pay for it myself I wouldn't have bothered. About all it does is help get my resume past HR drones.

> I do NOT want someone who has skipped college engineering my cars, my nuclear power plants, my wind farms....
> I do NOT want someone who skipped college treating my wounds, performing surgery, or teaching me advanced mathematics.

Good for you. Doctors and engineers would typically fit into the "subjects which require a lot of hands-on work with expensive equipment" category.

> The number of people who can learn fluid dynamics, system mechanics, aeronautical engineering, nursing, doctoring, or any other real technical subject by just going 'online' is vanishingly small. Like - near zero.

Tell me you don't know any smart people without telling me you don't know any smart people. Smart people learn things so quickly that it's astonishing that midwits think it should take years.

It's a midwit thing. They always want to pretend they're better than other people so they'll pick some group and claim that group are stoopid, stoopid, stoopid because the midwit has a piece of paper which says they're smart and the stoopid people don't.

Really it's just basic class warfare. A hundred years ago they would have been saying the same about blacks.

In reality, I know a lot of very smart people and none of them are liberals. None of them are conservatives either, but that's because it's obvious to smart people that conservatives are just liberals in drag and have never conserved anything of value.