I think that my ratio makes your point, lol. I neglected to note that we need to do better, instead of just leaving it open ended.
My understanding of the current process is that it’s quite wasteful/under development. With the state of things as they are it seems unlikely that the automakers are going to improve things over the recycling that they encouraged with lead acid. But one can hope, and lobby for change.
Yep, that, exactly. Both are absolute sociopaths.
LEO is focusing on enterprise at least at first and that makes sense with the consumer market penetration Starlink has. So it’s years out still for us.
https://youtu.be/U0YW7x9U5TQ?t=195
They do, but many EVs offer a mode (“one-pedal mode”) in which lift-off enters regeneration mode, and it is possible to drive entirely without touching the brake pedal. I think most do a “blended brake” which means that pressing the brake partway uses regen and then pressing harder uses actual brakes.
Hmmm, which mega-billionaire do I need to give my money to in order to be able to do essential things over the internet?
As government and other services become more dependent on the internet, the necessity of internet access becomes more apparent.
Imagine the damage recycling EV batteries will cause.
Not to be anti-EV, but more to be pro-transits/bike.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion but I think that the one-pedal kinda leads into this as well. You don’t remove your foot from the pedal to decelerate - in fact you keep pressure on it but less than while maintaining speed - and a twitch the wrong way makes it take off.
I am reminded that hand controls for driving are one-pedal, but they’re built backwards from the one-pedal in EVs. Push to stop, pull to start. That means that momentum pushes you into the brakes.
People built this into the Smart Fortwo with a couple chips and wires. I can’t find a reference because it was about 15 years ago they did it, but it wasn’t complicated and the door latch remained entirely mechanical. I think that it was, in turn, a replication of another car’s feature which did this back in the 80s.
I think it’s 99% cost savings.
There’s also no reason that it’s a software handle. The interior “handles” on the model 3 I’m led to believe are a button with no connection to the handle and there’s an emergency release buried somewhere in the back seat. Saving $0.50 per car just like GM. “The lawsuits are cheaper.”
The rapid acceleration is fun but the average person who’s trying to take off their sweater or reach for their water bottle or whatever in the car is going to accidentally jam the pedal down and kill themselves. I suspect all these “unintended sudden acceleration” are just someone mashing the pedal and not having the reaction time to lift off. Almost every gas car will give you time and audible indication to react. Electric cars - people carriers, with screaming toddlers and pets, not sporty ones - simply reach 100mph in 7 seconds.
Hard SPF and DKIM enforcement helps.
It’s cheaper to build a new server. Cloud… just isn’t cheap. Makes sense for accounting purposes and business reliability standards to a degree but not much for home use.
This happened to me:
Now my whole family relies on this underpowered house of cards.
Currently my understanding of lion recycling is they grind it, dump it into a slurry, and some of the metals are recovered and the rest is a toxic soup. Mostly because the recycling is very much under development.
I think that the lesson we can draw from this is that the current system of auto recycling needs more guidelines as we move forward with EVs.