Nope, China has massively developed its EV infrastructure and sales. Over 80% of new busses in China are electric now, with it expected to hit nearly 100% by 2020, for example. They have built the world's largest network of chargers too.
Just limiting your comparison to when they plan to ban ICE is cherry-picking. Bans are not the only effort being made, or even the most effective, or necessarily suited to a country like China.
The electronics are much cheaper than a combustion engine. Aside from not needing a complex combustion system with emission controls, there is also no gearbox or exhaust etc.
The only reason they are more expensive is the battery pack. As production ramps up costs will fall. They are already falling incredibly fast. In the space of about 6 years we have doubled range for the same price, and we are only really at the start of the big increases in production capacity and demand.
I have a feeling that a 100% tax might anger the right as well... I'd also rather have a government agency deciding what is a reasonable requirement for a licence to pollute and damage health than simply making it a privilege of the rich.
The real goal of setting a ban date a decade or two in the future is to encourage manufacturers to switch faster. If they know that some big markets are going to lock them out unless they produce some good EVs they will make more effort to develop them.
Look at how many European manufacturers have accelerated their EV programmes now that several European countries have decided to eventually ban combustion engine sales.
"Parody" is the default excuse for any and all bad behaviour now. Marching down the street with a swastika flag is just "parodying" Nazis and laughing at people who are upset over "just a symbol". Stealing cars is just a parody of stupid criminals, Trump is just a parody of the US president...
And if you question it, then you are the delusional idiot who can't take a joke, even though there is no joke and they are totally sincere.
Many of them misrepresented their identity in order to deceive.
For excite, "AntiFa Boston" accidentally posted location data on a tweet recently (Moscow, Russia). The account is a troll stoking up division by pretending to be someone they are not, which is against the ToS.
This is called 1seg. Started in Japan, it's low quality 12 FPS video but easier and more reliable to receive on the move. Many cars have it, I was really surprised to see people watching TV while driving.
The name of because it uses one segment of the available digital TV spectrum. It trades quality for extra error correction and redundancy.
The Russian's pretending to be AntiFa Boston accidentally left location tagging on. Not long after they deleted the tweet and then the account. If you look at this history of their posts, they were mostly just trolling white guys, and even before the gaffe they were widely known to be a fake group.
That's what I said. They helped Trump win, because they thought he would be better for THEM, i.e. worse for the US.
Also, hopefully you did realize that those fake groups "supporting" the left like AntiFa Boston were actually trolling to whip up division and tension, which again was seen to be beneficial for Trump.
That's true. Maybe that's their great innovation... But how much difference will it actually make? I mean, it wouldn't make the car affordable. It might increase the range a bit by eliminating transmission losses and reducing weight, but not massively.
Knowingly having your social media accounts monitored and/or periodically checked creates a chilling effect. It may discourage people from discussing certain things, or even from passing through the US border.
You know, all the usual reasons why giving border staff unlimited power to e-molest people is a bad idea.
Chrome has script blocking. Has had it since nearly the very beginning via extensions.
Scriptsafe (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scriptsafe/oiigbmnaadbkfbmpbfijlflahbdbdgdf?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon) does all that and much more.
What innovation though... Motors already have more than enough power, the car has to use traction control to keep the wheels from spinning even in an original Nissan Leaf, let alone a Tesla.
Where innovation is needed is cost and efficiency. Dyson motors are not cheap, they need precision manufacturing and expensive machined parts to work. I don't know how well they do on efficiency, their battery powered vacuum cleaners don't seem to be particularly exceptional in terms of battery life.
I guess they could get the weight down perhaps, but the savings there are going to be marginal.
Dyson has been recruiting for a couple of years. It was obvious they were building a car from the job spec. I thought about applying but it was in an expensive, unattractive area and the wages were low. They certainly are not hiring experienced, highly skilled engineers, at least not publicly. Maybe they wanted someone to write firmware for the electric seats or something.
Yep. Another expensive electric vehicle that will probably bring little to the table other than maybe a Dyson motor that makes it do 0-60 in 0.1 seconds less than a Tesla.
To be interesting it needs to be one of the following:
- Cheap - Extremely long range - Fully self driving - Fully self (vacuum) cleaning
Dyson vacuum cleaners are good, but they have a nasty habit of releasing them with severe design flaws and then releasing an updated model the next year that fixes it.
People were complaining that naturalized citizens couldn't become president or VP, it just wasn't a very urgent issue since it only affected one or two people who might ever have a chance of reaching that level.
This affects millions of people and worse than simply being denied a particular job, it actively harms them.
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Nope, China has massively developed its EV infrastructure and sales. Over 80% of new busses in China are electric now, with it expected to hit nearly 100% by 2020, for example. They have built the world's largest network of chargers too.
Just limiting your comparison to when they plan to ban ICE is cherry-picking. Bans are not the only effort being made, or even the most effective, or necessarily suited to a country like China.
The electronics are much cheaper than a combustion engine. Aside from not needing a complex combustion system with emission controls, there is also no gearbox or exhaust etc.
The only reason they are more expensive is the battery pack. As production ramps up costs will fall. They are already falling incredibly fast. In the space of about 6 years we have doubled range for the same price, and we are only really at the start of the big increases in production capacity and demand.
I have a feeling that a 100% tax might anger the right as well... I'd also rather have a government agency deciding what is a reasonable requirement for a licence to pollute and damage health than simply making it a privilege of the rich.
The real goal of setting a ban date a decade or two in the future is to encourage manufacturers to switch faster. If they know that some big markets are going to lock them out unless they produce some good EVs they will make more effort to develop them.
Look at how many European manufacturers have accelerated their EV programmes now that several European countries have decided to eventually ban combustion engine sales.
"Parody" is the default excuse for any and all bad behaviour now. Marching down the street with a swastika flag is just "parodying" Nazis and laughing at people who are upset over "just a symbol". Stealing cars is just a parody of stupid criminals, Trump is just a parody of the US president...
And if you question it, then you are the delusional idiot who can't take a joke, even though there is no joke and they are totally sincere.
Great example of the kind of gaslighting I was taking about the other day.
Of course if it was a parody/troll their reaction, deleting the tweet and then their account, seems a little bit odd.
Seems like a few critical thinking and rhetoric classes at school would make a huge difference.
Do we really want our democracies decided by memes and whoever trolls the hardest?
It's nothing new of course, politics has always been dominated by ignorance, prejudice and bullshit. It's just so much more efficient now.
Many of them misrepresented their identity in order to deceive.
For excite, "AntiFa Boston" accidentally posted location data on a tweet recently (Moscow, Russia). The account is a troll stoking up division by pretending to be someone they are not, which is against the ToS.
They don't appear for me, they are served from blocked domains. But they still break the layout on comment pages.
This is called 1seg. Started in Japan, it's low quality 12 FPS video but easier and more reliable to receive on the move. Many cars have it, I was really surprised to see people watching TV while driving.
The name of because it uses one segment of the available digital TV spectrum. It trades quality for extra error correction and redundancy.
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When people talk about Nazis why do you assume it's about Trump?
Slashdot is one of the worst. Terrible mobile site, and the desktop site gets squashed because of the stupid ad.
I guess you didn't see this: https://twitter.com/my2k/statu...
The Russian's pretending to be AntiFa Boston accidentally left location tagging on. Not long after they deleted the tweet and then the account. If you look at this history of their posts, they were mostly just trolling white guys, and even before the gaffe they were widely known to be a fake group.
That's what I said. They helped Trump win, because they thought he would be better for THEM, i.e. worse for the US.
Also, hopefully you did realize that those fake groups "supporting" the left like AntiFa Boston were actually trolling to whip up division and tension, which again was seen to be beneficial for Trump.
That's true. Maybe that's their great innovation... But how much difference will it actually make? I mean, it wouldn't make the car affordable. It might increase the range a bit by eliminating transmission losses and reducing weight, but not massively.
Trump's claim is bias against him. The Russian ads were all helping him win, because Russia thought he would be a weaker leader and more disruptive.
Knowingly having your social media accounts monitored and/or periodically checked creates a chilling effect. It may discourage people from discussing certain things, or even from passing through the US border.
You know, all the usual reasons why giving border staff unlimited power to e-molest people is a bad idea.
Chrome has script blocking. Has had it since nearly the very beginning via extensions.
Scriptsafe (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scriptsafe/oiigbmnaadbkfbmpbfijlflahbdbdgdf?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon) does all that and much more.
What innovation though... Motors already have more than enough power, the car has to use traction control to keep the wheels from spinning even in an original Nissan Leaf, let alone a Tesla.
Where innovation is needed is cost and efficiency. Dyson motors are not cheap, they need precision manufacturing and expensive machined parts to work. I don't know how well they do on efficiency, their battery powered vacuum cleaners don't seem to be particularly exceptional in terms of battery life.
I guess they could get the weight down perhaps, but the savings there are going to be marginal.
Dyson has been recruiting for a couple of years. It was obvious they were building a car from the job spec. I thought about applying but it was in an expensive, unattractive area and the wages were low. They certainly are not hiring experienced, highly skilled engineers, at least not publicly. Maybe they wanted someone to write firmware for the electric seats or something.
Yep. Another expensive electric vehicle that will probably bring little to the table other than maybe a Dyson motor that makes it do 0-60 in 0.1 seconds less than a Tesla.
To be interesting it needs to be one of the following:
- Cheap
- Extremely long range
- Fully self driving
- Fully self (vacuum) cleaning
Dyson vacuum cleaners are good, but they have a nasty habit of releasing them with severe design flaws and then releasing an updated model the next year that fixes it.
People were complaining that naturalized citizens couldn't become president or VP, it just wasn't a very urgent issue since it only affected one or two people who might ever have a chance of reaching that level.
This affects millions of people and worse than simply being denied a particular job, it actively harms them.
Check out Bjorn Nyland on YouTube. He tows a trailer on a Model X and gets a lot more than 80 miles out of it.
She had been living as a girl since age 3. By age 12 that would be 3/4 of her life. Starting puberty blockers doesn't seem unreasonable.