No it's not. We've been charging batteries for decades.

That said it isn't fraud, it very well may be failure to deliver against the specification in the purchase order. The question is now, what were the terms.

Nothing surprising. Countries of production doesn't define environmental conditions or project boundaries. This isn't a Canada / German / China issue, it's a project requirements / acceptance testing issue.

Charging batteries has nothing to do with old / new, it has to do with how packs are prepared, assembled and managed on a technical level. You most certainly can get batteries out of China that can't charge below 5C, and you most certainly will get batteries form Germany which can. All you need to do is specify your requirements at the time of purchase.

Now you're probably thinking why wouldn't all batteries always do the best job? Well the person who fucked up in this project probably thought the same thing.

Ladies and gentleman, fill out your damn Statement of requirements properly, and actually put them through their paces at the factory acceptance test. If you're the type of idiot who thinks this has to do with the source of the battery production, you're probably going to be the next person in the news.

Not a uniquely American problem. It's a specific project related problem. Basic requirements not written down and not applied. Selection criteria not correctly selected.

This shit happens the world over both in government and private industry. Whether you're buying trains in Spain that don't fit through tunnels (real thing which killed a project), or buying hydrogen charging stations without specifying how many vehicles need to be filled at a certain rate (a real thing which killed a project). Every place has it's story from an idiot failed project. This happens to be Vermont's

And yet we just went through a pandemic which proved the exact opposite. Maybe one day we can find the cure for people who have huffed too much lead as a baby and you'll come around to the side of logic.

Ahhh right there's so many hotels with the same name and it really helps when you spell it correctly, I was looking at something different. And yet what you've linked to shows the same. You compared the Ritz in Chicago to the Como Shambahala. Even if you were right you were still not comparing apples to apples, regardless of how you try and walk back now.

Considering now you've linked a hotel it has come back at over double the price of the Ritz in Chicago. Yet unfortunately there's still no comparison, even above you've linked two different countries with two very different price points.

The closest you can get is the Ritz in Mandapa which actually is the same price, but the Ritz is far better connected, and given how fittings vary very wildly between locations, unless you've been to literally both these locations on the same island in the same price point I can only say your confidence in yourself is completely misplaced.

Again focus on places you've been, in comparable price points, in comparable cities with the same offering (e.g. central location, remote location, whatever you want, just comparable). And *then* you can judge whether one deserves a fake luxury moniker.

A bunch of people who have never tried it, never seen it, never tasted it, with no information calling it bad refusing to eat it for reasons they have zero possibility of actually justifying with facts.

And just like EVs there are those who have tried it who think the stuff is directly comparable in taste and texture to the real deal. The fact people eat burger patty shaped shit like McDonalds shows that lab cultivated meat consumption has nothing to do with taste or quality and everything to do with ignorance.

And yet escargot exists on the menu because people enjoy it enough to actually pay to eat it. What you think about meat you eat and dicks you've sucked isn't magically transferable to others.

And they should, ... because it *IS* meat, and it is directly comparable to meat in taste tests. This is nothing like your vegan fake burger patty, or a veg sausage. Lab cultivated meat tastes like the real thing because it is actually the same.

Sure there's slight difference in taste and texture, but that is true of actual meat as well, an Angus burger tastes different from a Blonde d'Aquitaine burger which tastes different from a Wagyu burger, etc. too.

Except it literally IS meat, it even follows your own definition. This very much is living real protein. In taste tests people have found them to be delicious. It's nothing at all like the frozen dinners you compare them to. There's no reason to call it anything other than meat.

Lab grown meat is the EV of food industry. A bunch of ney-sayers without experience afraid of something they've never used or tried.

This isn't "for most enterprise workloads".

I disagree, it's absolutely the worst. It's a system that actively requires you to look away from the road to achieve anything, and requires it at all times. You can't do a basic activity without finding out where in their UI you were currently. It's like combining the distraction and chaos of a touch screen with physical buttons that don't do one function because they are context variable.

Probably one of the worst UI designs in automotive history.

I'm glad you like it, but you're in the absolute minority here.

Don't confuse physical buttons with what Mazda had. Their scroll wheel was absolutely the worst of all worlds. Imagine designing a system that required you to stare at the screen at all times while navigating the UI. Not even touch UIs do that. Mazda's system achieved the impossible there.

They could remove all physical things from their car and have on giant touch screen for everything and it would still be a major improvement on safety and operability compared to the turd they somehow created.

There's nothing you can install that manages the car in a way a modern system is required to. There never has been. Even in the days of 2 DIN openings you had no choice of how to control your AC system.

If the only thing in your dash is a radio then I sincerely applaud you for managing to keep your 1960s relic running so long.

You clearly have never used the system in question. This was the worst of all worlds, a tactile system that *REQUIRED* you to take your eyes off the road continuously during use. At least with a touch screen you could blindly aim a finger to where you think a keypress is, with a wheel interface you actively need to look where you are at all times in the the UI while using it.

It is truly a turd of a system.

If you're systems supports balanced interconnects there's a technical reason to use them over RCA, far more so than sound quality or connector quality. Balanced connections definitely have benefits, not the least of which is proper electrical management of return currents.