My Leaf in winter (say -5c) loses about 15% range due to running the heat. I find it hard to believe that a Tesla is worse. It can sit for quite a long time running the heat without a big impact on the range - in fact this past winter it was my preferred car to run the kids to the bus stop when it got really cold. No hard starting, and because the heat is all electric it gets warm much fast than an ICE. I would sit for up to 30 minutes sometimes if the bus was late, not anything like driving for 30 minutes in terms of battery used.
Well, I know a lot of people don't like the way it looks and the newer ones are more normal looking. Personally, I don't mind it, and it's a practical shape which is surprisingly roomy inside so I don't really care. There are a lot of new EVs in the pipeline, so there should be quite a lot of choice within 5 years or so.
It looks like that number is the average range of EVs sold in Q3 2017, not the fleet overall. It would make sense that the fleet numbers would be well below that.
My Leaf is a just-over-100-miles car, and it gets me everywhere I regularly go pretty easily. There are a pretty good number of quick chargers around me (especially at the ~75 mile radius where they're most useful) which makes it fairly practical for slightly longer trips. In terms of reliability, EVs should be better since there are generally fewer parts; the Leaf at least is supposed to be quite solid with very little maintenance needed. For what's essentially an econobox it's pretty enjoyable to drive too.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has a lot of information about this, including a tool to let you calculate the emissions of an EV based on your local grid mix:
Even then, there should be a lot more PHEVs coming out too; most short trips could be all-electric, fall back on the gas for longer trips. Personally, I think a 300 mile range EV would do everything I need, but I know that might not be enough for everyone. Having driven a Leaf for a while now, I hope I can avoid ever having to go that route; when my current ICE dies I would like a longer range EV so I never have to deal with an ICE again except on a motorcycle.
It seems like in the next 2-5 years many major manufacturers are going to be launching fairly reasonably price EVs with decent range. The fast charging networks are expanding right now. As long as the battery prices continue to decline as they have been, I can't see that it would make sense for anyone with access to overnight charging to buy an ICE vehicle after the early 2020s. I hope Ford is using their SUV profits to do the R & D for a competitive EV over the next few years.
Yeah, it seems to me (based on talking to friends in the industry) that the make or break financially comes down to how cheaply you can mount the panels. It's way easier to mount a bunch of panels in a field on the outskirts than on a bunch of different shaped roofs.
Personally I put any phone, thick or thin, in a case. A $5 case can absorb shocks which might otherwise crack the screen. Unless the phone is ruggedized, which costs too much, I would always use a case, so the relative thickness difference is always going to be there.
Wow, I wish I could get my bill that low. I thought $100/month was pretty good for 1600 sq ft! I'm on the east coast though, I guess Ventura is a lot more temperate.
If your bill is that low, I assume your house is fairly small. From my reading, it seems that the size of the array would be proportional to the size of the conditioned space, so presumably if you were to rebuild your house to the same specs you'd be adding a small system. If they are estimating an average cost of $10k you'd probably be under that.
The Tesla roof seems to mix real solar panels with simple glass tiles which look the same. You would only get energy from the parts of the roof with the actual PV tiles, but they all look the same from the street.
I think that reason is that while the WDs might be more reliable, their extra cost doesn't usually make it worth while for the scale they are working at.
You may not be the average European... but either way, I'd expect you'd see significant savings.
Here in the US, I can charge my EV with off peak electricity, so 100 miles costs me about $1.50. My ICE car gets 25 mpg on a good day, so that's at least $10 to go 100 miles. I'll probably spend $200 vs $1200 a year so that $1000 estimate is pretty close for me.
And if my time were worth nothing, there actually are quite a few places around me which don't bother to charge for EV charging, so I could do all my miles for next to nothing. But charging at home is so cheap and easy that I don't bother.
If you own your home (so you can install a charger/EVSE and charge overnight) I'd say most people buying a new car in 2 or 3 years time would be financially better off getting an EV. There are a lot of improved models in the pipeline, and the advantages in most cases outweigh any range issues.
I bought the year pass for something like $90. I have used it twice in the last month, so I feel like I'm ahead so far. There's no way I will average 4 movies a month, let alone go over that, though I guess I might hit that some months. And I can walk to 2 theaters from my house, if I had to get in my car there would be even less likelihood of using it a lot. Since you can't book in advance most places, you are essentially only able to get seats which would otherwise be empty, and since the ticket is "free" you feel better about buying the overpriced popcorn. So I agree that the theaters probably would be better off working with them.
It seems like they are shooting for 3 FTEs per location, but because there aren't enough people they have to keep moving them around to cover. So while it still seems high, $333k per employee when you include transportation to remote areas and maintaining accommodations for them in said remote areas starts to seem more plausible. If you're flying in all supplies with a bush pilot things get expensive.
I know, based on having driven an EV, that I would not choose a remotely similar spec ICE over an EV. I extrapolated from that, in the term "I bet", that others would have a similar reaction. I claim no knowledge of what others would choose, I feel that there is a likelihood one way or another and I bet that it's in favor of the EV.
Yeah, but I bet that if you drove the 6 series and the S back to back you'd choose the S. I have never driven either, but I'm about to sell my 3 series convertible because I prefer to drive my Leaf. And the Leaf is about the crappiest econobox EV you can get, with a battery tech which will probably see me losing 20% of my already paltry range in 5 years. And still, I enjoy driving the EV more. If I can limp my other ICE along for a few more years, I hope to never have to buy another car with an ICE.
I remember reading about Diaspora several years ago; is it still under active development? When I looked for an android client I found a "native webapp" app, which seemed to have last been updated in 2016. that doesn't seem to indicate a thriving community to me.
I did RTFA; Sony was listed right along with Google and Samsung as actually installing the updates. I don't verify each security update, but I can for sure tell when they push out Android 8 to me.
I have been pleasantly surprised at the number of patches Sony pushes out to my Xperia X. It seems like at least every couple of months an update comes through; sometimes just security, but a couple of months ago I moved to Oreo. Never had a Google phone, but it seems like a more regular schedule than I got from my last Samsung.
I can understand the use of these stickers on something like a mechanical hard drive, where opening the cover allows dust in which could damage it. I can't think of many other cases where it's warranted though.
Aside from the curving walls (which I doubt would be used at scale for social or any other kind of housing) this looks just like what you can already do faster with Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF). I'm more interested in the machines which they can use to print the concrete directly; those could be useful in areas which don't require heavy insulation.
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My Leaf in winter (say -5c) loses about 15% range due to running the heat. I find it hard to believe that a Tesla is worse. It can sit for quite a long time running the heat without a big impact on the range - in fact this past winter it was my preferred car to run the kids to the bus stop when it got really cold. No hard starting, and because the heat is all electric it gets warm much fast than an ICE. I would sit for up to 30 minutes sometimes if the bus was late, not anything like driving for 30 minutes in terms of battery used.
Well, I know a lot of people don't like the way it looks and the newer ones are more normal looking. Personally, I don't mind it, and it's a practical shape which is surprisingly roomy inside so I don't really care. There are a lot of new EVs in the pipeline, so there should be quite a lot of choice within 5 years or so.
It looks like that number is the average range of EVs sold in Q3 2017, not the fleet overall. It would make sense that the fleet numbers would be well below that.
My Leaf is a just-over-100-miles car, and it gets me everywhere I regularly go pretty easily. There are a pretty good number of quick chargers around me (especially at the ~75 mile radius where they're most useful) which makes it fairly practical for slightly longer trips. In terms of reliability, EVs should be better since there are generally fewer parts; the Leaf at least is supposed to be quite solid with very little maintenance needed. For what's essentially an econobox it's pretty enjoyable to drive too.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has a lot of information about this, including a tool to let you calculate the emissions of an EV based on your local grid mix:
https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-v...
Even then, there should be a lot more PHEVs coming out too; most short trips could be all-electric, fall back on the gas for longer trips. Personally, I think a 300 mile range EV would do everything I need, but I know that might not be enough for everyone. Having driven a Leaf for a while now, I hope I can avoid ever having to go that route; when my current ICE dies I would like a longer range EV so I never have to deal with an ICE again except on a motorcycle.
It seems like in the next 2-5 years many major manufacturers are going to be launching fairly reasonably price EVs with decent range. The fast charging networks are expanding right now. As long as the battery prices continue to decline as they have been, I can't see that it would make sense for anyone with access to overnight charging to buy an ICE vehicle after the early 2020s. I hope Ford is using their SUV profits to do the R & D for a competitive EV over the next few years.
Yeah, it seems to me (based on talking to friends in the industry) that the make or break financially comes down to how cheaply you can mount the panels. It's way easier to mount a bunch of panels in a field on the outskirts than on a bunch of different shaped roofs.
Personally I put any phone, thick or thin, in a case. A $5 case can absorb shocks which might otherwise crack the screen. Unless the phone is ruggedized, which costs too much, I would always use a case, so the relative thickness difference is always going to be there.
Wow, I wish I could get my bill that low. I thought $100/month was pretty good for 1600 sq ft!
I'm on the east coast though, I guess Ventura is a lot more temperate.
If your bill is that low, I assume your house is fairly small. From my reading, it seems that the size of the array would be proportional to the size of the conditioned space, so presumably if you were to rebuild your house to the same specs you'd be adding a small system. If they are estimating an average cost of $10k you'd probably be under that.
The Tesla roof seems to mix real solar panels with simple glass tiles which look the same. You would only get energy from the parts of the roof with the actual PV tiles, but they all look the same from the street.
I think that reason is that while the WDs might be more reliable, their extra cost doesn't usually make it worth while for the scale they are working at.
That's cool, I use KVM quite a lot but I didn't know they supported that!
You may not be the average European... but either way, I'd expect you'd see significant savings.
Here in the US, I can charge my EV with off peak electricity, so 100 miles costs me about $1.50. My ICE car gets 25 mpg on a good day, so that's at least $10 to go 100 miles. I'll probably spend $200 vs $1200 a year so that $1000 estimate is pretty close for me.
And if my time were worth nothing, there actually are quite a few places around me which don't bother to charge for EV charging, so I could do all my miles for next to nothing. But charging at home is so cheap and easy that I don't bother.
If you own your home (so you can install a charger/EVSE and charge overnight) I'd say most people buying a new car in 2 or 3 years time would be financially better off getting an EV. There are a lot of improved models in the pipeline, and the advantages in most cases outweigh any range issues.
I bought the year pass for something like $90. I have used it twice in the last month, so I feel like I'm ahead so far. There's no way I will average 4 movies a month, let alone go over that, though I guess I might hit that some months. And I can walk to 2 theaters from my house, if I had to get in my car there would be even less likelihood of using it a lot.
Since you can't book in advance most places, you are essentially only able to get seats which would otherwise be empty, and since the ticket is "free" you feel better about buying the overpriced popcorn. So I agree that the theaters probably would be better off working with them.
It seems like they are shooting for 3 FTEs per location, but because there aren't enough people they have to keep moving them around to cover. So while it still seems high, $333k per employee when you include transportation to remote areas and maintaining accommodations for them in said remote areas starts to seem more plausible. If you're flying in all supplies with a bush pilot things get expensive.
I know, based on having driven an EV, that I would not choose a remotely similar spec ICE over an EV. I extrapolated from that, in the term "I bet", that others would have a similar reaction. I claim no knowledge of what others would choose, I feel that there is a likelihood one way or another and I bet that it's in favor of the EV.
Yeah, but I bet that if you drove the 6 series and the S back to back you'd choose the S. I have never driven either, but I'm about to sell my 3 series convertible because I prefer to drive my Leaf. And the Leaf is about the crappiest econobox EV you can get, with a battery tech which will probably see me losing 20% of my already paltry range in 5 years. And still, I enjoy driving the EV more.
If I can limp my other ICE along for a few more years, I hope to never have to buy another car with an ICE.
I remember reading about Diaspora several years ago; is it still under active development? When I looked for an android client I found a "native webapp" app, which seemed to have last been updated in 2016. that doesn't seem to indicate a thriving community to me.
How good at blocking spam is KolabNow? Google's spam filtering was the reason I switched to them in the first place.
I did RTFA; Sony was listed right along with Google and Samsung as actually installing the updates. I don't verify each security update, but I can for sure tell when they push out Android 8 to me.
I have been pleasantly surprised at the number of patches Sony pushes out to my Xperia X. It seems like at least every couple of months an update comes through; sometimes just security, but a couple of months ago I moved to Oreo. Never had a Google phone, but it seems like a more regular schedule than I got from my last Samsung.
I can understand the use of these stickers on something like a mechanical hard drive, where opening the cover allows dust in which could damage it. I can't think of many other cases where it's warranted though.
Aside from the curving walls (which I doubt would be used at scale for social or any other kind of housing) this looks just like what you can already do faster with Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF). I'm more interested in the machines which they can use to print the concrete directly; those could be useful in areas which don't require heavy insulation.