Same here. Have taken trips in a Tesla from Houston to central Wisconsin and back, as well as to Fort Benning in Georgia and back. Range is enough that Supercharger stops work well for meal breaks, and the car is usually ready to resume the trip before we've even received the check.
The ~730 mile trip to Fort Benning cost me $17 for charging. Charging in Georgia was included where we stayed, just plugged into the dryer outlet at the cabin - they also told us we could use an empty RV spot if we needed; while it would have been slightly faster, the dryer outlet was more than fast enough and way more convenient.
We don't have a ZEV mandate in Texas. The state even goes out of their way to make it difficult to buy a Tesla (cannot discuss price in the "gallery", must order online, must pay in full before it can be shipped to Texas, etc), recently tried to pass a bill that would have forced Tesla to close service centers, and even prevents Tesla owners from taking advantage of the Texas $2500 EV incentive as it's only available if vehicle was purchased from a Texas Dealer.
And despite all that, if you take a look at Tesla's Carbon Impact you'll find Houston, Austin, and Dallas coming in at 11, 12, and 13 for US cities.
With enough range, home charging is more than adequate for daily use. Saves time too, my time spent refueling went from 5-10 minutes per week to just 42 seconds when I traded in my Honda S2000 for a Tesla Model 3; that's 6 seconds per day, 3 to plug in when I get home and 3 to unplug when I leave.
We're still early in the switch to EVs, so non-home charging will depend upon where you live. Here in the suburbs of Houston I have a number of options to charge while I'm out grocery shopping(Krogers, Whole Foods, etc.), dinning out (Rudy's BBQ, Cracker Barrel, etc), shopping (Kohl's, Target, Walgreens, etc), or even entertainment (AMC movies). I don't use any of them though, it's less expensive to plugin at home. There are a number of apartment complexes around town that feature EV charging, so home charging does not require you to rent or own a house.
For road trips Tesla's where it's at for the time being, everything else is inconsistent and requires various memberships and such. They also charge a lot more for the electricity than what I pay at the Superchargers, about $4 for 100 miles of range here in Texas; about because they can't sell by the kWh due to state laws, so pricing is by the minute at 2 tiers based on the rate of charge.
The grid has excess capacity in the middle of the night, so much so that many electric providers like mine (Green Mountain 100% wind power) offer free-nights electric plans to entice people to shift their usage patterns. I recently switch to this plan from one that was a flat rate of $0.1226/kWh (all taxes & transmission fees in these numbers). My new daytime rate is $0.2664/kWh, which seemed scary, but it's $0 from 8pm to 6am. I set my car to start charging at midnight, and learned how to use the delayed start feature on my washer & dishwasher. With those 3 changes most of my usage shifted to the $0 rate, which resulted in me averaging out at $0.0972/kWh for my November bill(down 20% from my previous plan).
With that $0.0972 average, the electricity cost to make my Model 3 go 310 miles is $7.83. My S2000, which required premium gas, cost $43.50 in fuel for that same range.
Suspect you've seen them and not realized it. A few years ago after I became interested in Tesla, and became familiar with what they looked like, I started to notice them all around Houston, though predominantly in the Galleria area. Now I see them all around town, even in my neck of the woods (Fresno, off highway 6 between Missouri City and Pearland). As of the end of May people around here now regularly see my blue Model 3.
There's no signs for Superchargers along the highways/interstates as there's no need - the car tells you were they are. They're often not visible from the road either, so if you didn't already know they were there you'd drive right past them and be none the wiser. This past weekend I went to San Antonio and Austin. I drove past the Superchargers in Columbus, stopped for dinner and charged in Flatonia, then made it to my friends in San Antonio and plugged into a 120V outlet (slowest charging option, but still gained 50 miles of range overnight). We went up to Austin for Classic Game Fest, then on the way back stopped for dinner in San Marcos and charged. Of the three, the Flatonia location is the only one you'd have had any chance of seeing from the interstate.
Up until now the expectation was you would charge at home, or if traveling then at the place you stayed at (known as Destination Charging). So at the moment most Superchargers are along the roads between cities. As the cars drop in price the need for apartment dwellers to charge becomes a concern, so Tesla's rolling out Urban Superchargers(starting with Chicago and Boston).
"Outselling everyone" is for current sales, which does not cause all the cars sold in previous years to suddenly disappear from the roads. As such it'll take time for the increase in Tesla sales to become visible amongst all the existing vehicles.
If you're interested in seeing the cars and learning more, check out the National Drive Electric Week events that are occurring from September 8-16. The Houston Event is on the 15th from 9:30am -12:30pm at Ikea. So far 17 cars are scheduled to be there, covering 8 different vehicles.
Because they use outside air, air source heat pumps work especially well in moderate temperatures. But when temperatures drop below 32 F, they lose efficiency, meaning they have to rely on a secondary source of heat to properly heat your home.
Secondary forms of heat come in two forms: 1. Electric resistance coil heaters (the default)
2. Gas furnaces (when combined with a heat pump this is called “hybrid heat” or “dual fuel system”)
So an EV would have to haul around both the heat pump and resistance coils. Excess weight is bad in cars, hence the trend away from spare tires, so it's better to just use the coils by themselves even if they're inefficient over a narrow temperature range.
the current grid runs at 100% capacity nearly all the time
If that were true then the Electricity Demand Curve would be the Electricity Demand Horizontal Line. The reality is there's a glut of capacity at night, which conveniently coincides with the time most people would be recharging their EVs.
With the Tesla... There's a Supercharger site not far from the BMW dealership... It's just a couple thousand feet off the highway, and there are 8 stations. I can't tell with PlugShare how many of the chargers are occupied
AAC was developed with the cooperation and contributions of companies including AT&T Bell Laboratories, Fraunhofer IIS, Dolby Laboratories, Sony Corporation and Nokia. It was officially declared an international standard by the Moving Picture Experts Group in April 1997. It is specified both as Part 7 of the MPEG-2 standard, and Subpart 4 in Part 3 of the MPEG-4 standard.
FairPlay was done so the record labels would let Apple sell music, maybe you're thinking about that?
FairPlay was a digital rights management (DRM) technology developed by Apple Inc. It is built into the MP4 multimedia file format as an encrypted AAC audio layer, and is used by the company to protect copyrighted works sold through iTunes Store, allowing only authorized devices to play the content.
Apple didn't really want to use it, see Thoughts on Music, and was eventually able to convince the labels to drop the DRM requirement.
The VLT consists of four individual telescopes, each with a primary mirror 8.2 m across, which are generally used separately but can be used together to achieve very high angular resolution.
...when all the telescopes are combined, the facility can achieve an angular resolution of about 0.001 arc-second. In single telescope mode of operation angular resolution is about 0.05 arc-second.
Angular resolution or spatial resolution describes the ability of any image-forming device such as an optical or radio telescope, a microscope, a camera, or an eye, to distinguish small details of an object, thereby making it a major determinant of image resolution.
This Electrek article show prior art for wrap-around windows and mid entry door.
Check the comments and you'll find many others, such as the Volvo Supertruck concept from 2014. The Nikola cab looks way closer to that Volvo than the Tesla cab does to the Nikola.
To be fair you did say "The entire Y2K problem", which suggested you didn't know there were valid reasons.
In the 80s and early 90s I worked on existing software that used 2 digit years. While we were aware of the issue we weren't going to address it until we had to because it wasn't possible to update just one program at a time, it was all or nothing - miss just one program you'd end up with corrupt data. As it turned out, the company that built the computers we used, a Wang VS, ended up going under and we replaced it with a new system and software solution that was already Y2K compliant. As such, we'd have wasted our time if we'd updated the old software, and that's not good business practice.
The entire Y2K problem was from tens of thousands of programmers arbitrarily taking short cuts in their programming
I suspect you're relatively young as there were valid reasons to only store 2 digits for the year.
The problem started because on both mainframe computers and later personal computers, storage was expensive, from as low as $10 per kilobyte, to in many cases as much as or even more than US$100 per kilobyte. It was therefore very important for programmers to reduce usage. Since programs could simply prefix "19" to the year of a date, most programs internally used, or stored on disc or tape, data files where the date format was six digits, in the form MMDDYY, MM as two digits for the month, DD as two digits for the day, and YY as two digits for the year. As space on disc and tape was also expensive, this also saved money by reducing the size of stored data files and data bases.
And early then that you had to deal with punchcards, which could only store 80 characters per card. Punch cards were still in use when I went to college at Del Mar in Corpus Christi in 1984. While my incoming class was the first to no longer use them as part of our curriculum, the older students still used them. Everybody also used them during the registration process - pick up the card with your name on it at the entrance, walk around to the tables set up for each department and get a punch card for the class you wanted (if they were out of cards the class was full), then turn in the stack of cards to complete your registration.
I use Keynote to give my Atari 2600 Homebrew presentation. To give the presentation I use both my iPhone and iPad. The iPhone plugs into the projector (after turning on Do Not Disturb, of course!). After launching Keynote on both devices I then use the Keynote Remote option from the iPad to connect to the iPhone (via bluetooth or wifi). The larger screen on the iPad makes it easy to see the slide side-by-side with my presenter notes, plus I'm free to walk around the stage without worrying about tripping over wires. There's also a virtual laser pointer and colored marker set that lets you point out things and draw on the slides during the presentation.
I know the ATSC spec was updated to include support for h.264 back in 2008, and that they are working on the 3.0 update which will include h.265. I believe Airbox is using h.264 to transmit premium channels like Starz and Showtime over the air.
Yeah, there's a lot channels in Spanish, others in Vietnamese, Chinese, Farsi, etc. as well as the religious channels (those are super pixelated - they appear to be more worried about quantity rather than quality).
Out of the 129 channels there's probably about 20 of them I regularly watch(rather like getting hundreds of channels via DirecTV, but only regularly watching a few dozen - of course, I'm no longer paying for the channels I don't watch!). The High Def channels (ABC, NBC, PBS, KUBE, ION, etc) all look significantly better than they did on DirecTV. Likewise the Standard Def subchannels that I do watch look better (though not significantly) than comparable SD channels I used to watch on DirecTV.
Very true, due to the proliferation of subchannels I'm pick up 129 channels here in the suburbs of Houston. My folks are a bit further south in Lake Jackson and pick up 105 of them - basically there's a few low power station's I can receive that don't reach them.
savings would be what I used to pay DirecTV ($146 a month) less purchasing shows à la cart - buying seasons via Amazon, iTunes, and physical media (Blu-ray & DVD sets).
...
I ended up saving $4575 over the past three years, for an average savings of $1525 per year!
Over the holidays I took family to the iPic Theater here in Houston for a screening of Rogue One. They have some really innovative seating pods - pairs of recliners share a table, and have a short sound proofing wall wrapped around them to help cut down on noise from other patrons.
On color laser printers each C, Y, M or K dot is either either ON or OFF
On HDR display a single pixel can display any of 0-1073741823 colors. (Might also be 0-68719476735, the article doesn't specify which HDR spec the display is using, which is either 10-bits or 12-bits per RGB value)
As such, significantly more printed dots are required to get the same effective range as a single display pixel.
A legacy port is a computer port or connector that is considered by some to be fully or partially superseded.
On the iPhone the 3.5mm headphone jack has been fully superseded by lightning and wireless. As such, legacy is the appropriate term to use in a discussion about iPhones and analog headphone jacks.
Congratulations! You just disproved the theory that Americans (and especially us Texans) are the most arrogant people on Earth!
Talk about misinformed. We didn't "find it 20 years later". I'm 50. I watched Benny Hill and Monty Python with my folks in the 70s. I watched Red Dwarf in the 80s and 90s on PBS here in Houston. On November 8 I bought Red Dwarf series XI on blu-ray, less than two weeks after it finished airing in the UK.
In the summer of 1974, Ron Devillier, the programme director for nonprofit PBS television station KERA in Dallas, Texas, started airing episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Ratings shot through the roof, providing an encouraging sign to the other 100 PBS stations that had signed up to begin airing the show in October 1974—exactly five years after their BBC debut.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that electricity transmission and distribution losses average about 6% of the electricity that is transmitted and distributed annually in the United States. 1 ...
1 Average of annual losses in 2005 through 2014. Estimated losses in 2014 for the entire United States were about 5%.
"Manual" and "automatic" are terms used for describing how multi-ratio transmissions change which ratio is in use.
Tesla only uses one ratio so there's no way to automatically, nor manually, change it. Transmissions that only use one ratio are known as a "simple".
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Same here. Have taken trips in a Tesla from Houston to central Wisconsin and back, as well as to Fort Benning in Georgia and back. Range is enough that Supercharger stops work well for meal breaks, and the car is usually ready to resume the trip before we've even received the check.
The ~730 mile trip to Fort Benning cost me $17 for charging. Charging in Georgia was included where we stayed, just plugged into the dryer outlet at the cabin - they also told us we could use an empty RV spot if we needed; while it would have been slightly faster, the dryer outlet was more than fast enough and way more convenient.
We don't have a ZEV mandate in Texas. The state even goes out of their way to make it difficult to buy a Tesla (cannot discuss price in the "gallery", must order online, must pay in full before it can be shipped to Texas, etc), recently tried to pass a bill that would have forced Tesla to close service centers, and even prevents Tesla owners from taking advantage of the Texas $2500 EV incentive as it's only available if vehicle was purchased from a Texas Dealer.
And despite all that, if you take a look at Tesla's Carbon Impact you'll find Houston, Austin, and Dallas coming in at 11, 12, and 13 for US cities.
With enough range, home charging is more than adequate for daily use. Saves time too, my time spent refueling went from 5-10 minutes per week to just 42 seconds when I traded in my Honda S2000 for a Tesla Model 3; that's 6 seconds per day, 3 to plug in when I get home and 3 to unplug when I leave.
We're still early in the switch to EVs, so non-home charging will depend upon where you live. Here in the suburbs of Houston I have a number of options to charge while I'm out grocery shopping(Krogers, Whole Foods, etc.), dinning out (Rudy's BBQ, Cracker Barrel, etc), shopping (Kohl's, Target, Walgreens, etc), or even entertainment (AMC movies). I don't use any of them though, it's less expensive to plugin at home. There are a number of apartment complexes around town that feature EV charging, so home charging does not require you to rent or own a house.
For road trips Tesla's where it's at for the time being, everything else is inconsistent and requires various memberships and such. They also charge a lot more for the electricity than what I pay at the Superchargers, about $4 for 100 miles of range here in Texas; about because they can't sell by the kWh due to state laws, so pricing is by the minute at 2 tiers based on the rate of charge.
The grid has excess capacity in the middle of the night, so much so that many electric providers like mine (Green Mountain 100% wind power) offer free-nights electric plans to entice people to shift their usage patterns. I recently switch to this plan from one that was a flat rate of $0.1226/kWh (all taxes & transmission fees in these numbers). My new daytime rate is $0.2664/kWh, which seemed scary, but it's $0 from 8pm to 6am. I set my car to start charging at midnight, and learned how to use the delayed start feature on my washer & dishwasher. With those 3 changes most of my usage shifted to the $0 rate, which resulted in me averaging out at $0.0972/kWh for my November bill(down 20% from my previous plan).
With that $0.0972 average, the electricity cost to make my Model 3 go 310 miles is $7.83. My S2000, which required premium gas, cost $43.50 in fuel for that same range.
Suspect you've seen them and not realized it. A few years ago after I became interested in Tesla, and became familiar with what they looked like, I started to notice them all around Houston, though predominantly in the Galleria area. Now I see them all around town, even in my neck of the woods (Fresno, off highway 6 between Missouri City and Pearland). As of the end of May people around here now regularly see my blue Model 3.
There's no signs for Superchargers along the highways/interstates as there's no need - the car tells you were they are. They're often not visible from the road either, so if you didn't already know they were there you'd drive right past them and be none the wiser. This past weekend I went to San Antonio and Austin. I drove past the Superchargers in Columbus, stopped for dinner and charged in Flatonia, then made it to my friends in San Antonio and plugged into a 120V outlet (slowest charging option, but still gained 50 miles of range overnight). We went up to Austin for Classic Game Fest, then on the way back stopped for dinner in San Marcos and charged. Of the three, the Flatonia location is the only one you'd have had any chance of seeing from the interstate.
Up until now the expectation was you would charge at home, or if traveling then at the place you stayed at (known as Destination Charging). So at the moment most Superchargers are along the roads between cities. As the cars drop in price the need for apartment dwellers to charge becomes a concern, so Tesla's rolling out Urban Superchargers(starting with Chicago and Boston).
"Outselling everyone" is for current sales, which does not cause all the cars sold in previous years to suddenly disappear from the roads. As such it'll take time for the increase in Tesla sales to become visible amongst all the existing vehicles.
If you're interested in seeing the cars and learning more, check out the National Drive Electric Week events that are occurring from September 8-16. The Houston Event is on the 15th from 9:30am -12:30pm at Ikea. So far 17 cars are scheduled to be there, covering 8 different vehicles.
Key phrase, favorable conditions
Will a Heat Pump Work in Cold Weather?
So an EV would have to haul around both the heat pump and resistance coils. Excess weight is bad in cars, hence the trend away from spare tires, so it's better to just use the coils by themselves even if they're inefficient over a narrow temperature range.
If that were true then the Electricity Demand Curve would be the Electricity Demand Horizontal Line. The reality is there's a glut of capacity at night, which conveniently coincides with the time most people would be recharging their EVs.
You can view that within the car - Tesla unlocks real-time Supercharger occupancy data on vehicle map. Not sure how accurate it is, just got back from our first road trip in a Tesla and on the way back to Houston the Nacogdoches Supercharger showed 5 of 8 stalls in use, but only one spot was occupied - and it was ICED at that.
Advanced Audio Coding
FairPlay was done so the record labels would let Apple sell music, maybe you're thinking about that?
Apple didn't really want to use it, see Thoughts on Music, and was eventually able to convince the labels to drop the DRM requirement.
Angular resolution
This Electrek article show prior art for wrap-around windows and mid entry door. Check the comments and you'll find many others, such as the Volvo Supertruck concept from 2014. The Nikola cab looks way closer to that Volvo than the Tesla cab does to the Nikola.
To be fair you did say "The entire Y2K problem", which suggested you didn't know there were valid reasons.
In the 80s and early 90s I worked on existing software that used 2 digit years. While we were aware of the issue we weren't going to address it until we had to because it wasn't possible to update just one program at a time, it was all or nothing - miss just one program you'd end up with corrupt data. As it turned out, the company that built the computers we used, a Wang VS, ended up going under and we replaced it with a new system and software solution that was already Y2K compliant. As such, we'd have wasted our time if we'd updated the old software, and that's not good business practice.
The entire Y2K problem was from tens of thousands of programmers arbitrarily taking short cuts in their programming
I suspect you're relatively young as there were valid reasons to only store 2 digits for the year.
And early then that you had to deal with punchcards, which could only store 80 characters per card. Punch cards were still in use when I went to college at Del Mar in Corpus Christi in 1984. While my incoming class was the first to no longer use them as part of our curriculum, the older students still used them. Everybody also used them during the registration process - pick up the card with your name on it at the entrance, walk around to the tables set up for each department and get a punch card for the class you wanted (if they were out of cards the class was full), then turn in the stack of cards to complete your registration.
I use Keynote to give my Atari 2600 Homebrew presentation. To give the presentation I use both my iPhone and iPad. The iPhone plugs into the projector (after turning on Do Not Disturb, of course!). After launching Keynote on both devices I then use the Keynote Remote option from the iPad to connect to the iPhone (via bluetooth or wifi). The larger screen on the iPad makes it easy to see the slide side-by-side with my presenter notes, plus I'm free to walk around the stage without worrying about tripping over wires. There's also a virtual laser pointer and colored marker set that lets you point out things and draw on the slides during the presentation.
A year ago the average price for a new car was $33,666. The Model 3 is not be for the one percenters. http://mediaroom.kbb.com/new-c...
I know the ATSC spec was updated to include support for h.264 back in 2008, and that they are working on the 3.0 update which will include h.265. I believe Airbox is using h.264 to transmit premium channels like Starz and Showtime over the air.
Yeah, there's a lot channels in Spanish, others in Vietnamese, Chinese, Farsi, etc. as well as the religious channels (those are super pixelated - they appear to be more worried about quantity rather than quality).
Out of the 129 channels there's probably about 20 of them I regularly watch(rather like getting hundreds of channels via DirecTV, but only regularly watching a few dozen - of course, I'm no longer paying for the channels I don't watch!). The High Def channels (ABC, NBC, PBS, KUBE, ION, etc) all look significantly better than they did on DirecTV. Likewise the Standard Def subchannels that I do watch look better (though not significantly) than comparable SD channels I used to watch on DirecTV.
The SD channels I watch are: This TV, Heroes & Icons, Laff(comedies), Movies!, Decades, Buzzr(game shows), Antenna TV, Comet TV(sci fi), The Works (though this network was dissolved last month and has been replaced by Charge! and I've not yet watched anything on it), MeTV, Get TV, and Grit.
Very true, due to the proliferation of subchannels I'm pick up 129 channels here in the suburbs of Houston. My folks are a bit further south in Lake Jackson and pick up 105 of them - basically there's a few low power station's I can receive that don't reach them.
YMMV
Over the holidays I took family to the iPic Theater here in Houston for a screening of Rogue One. They have some really innovative seating pods - pairs of recliners share a table, and have a short sound proofing wall wrapped around them to help cut down on noise from other patrons.
I posted some photos of them at the end of this blog entry - Two million pounds of ice on a subtropical island!
There is a major difference:
As such, significantly more printed dots are required to get the same effective range as a single display pixel.
On the iPhone the 3.5mm headphone jack has been fully superseded by lightning and wireless. As such, legacy is the appropriate term to use in a discussion about iPhones and analog headphone jacks.
From iPhone 7 Tech Specs
Congratulations! You just disproved the theory that Americans (and especially us Texans) are the most arrogant people on Earth!
Talk about misinformed. We didn't "find it 20 years later". I'm 50. I watched Benny Hill and Monty Python with my folks in the 70s. I watched Red Dwarf in the 80s and 90s on PBS here in Houston. On November 8 I bought Red Dwarf series XI on blu-ray, less than two weeks after it finished airing in the UK.
Monty Python: Introduction to North America
In the summer of 1974, Ron Devillier, the programme director for nonprofit PBS television station KERA in Dallas, Texas, started airing episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Ratings shot through the roof, providing an encouraging sign to the other 100 PBS stations that had signed up to begin airing the show in October 1974—exactly five years after their BBC debut.
" the transmission line efficiency is about 50%"
You're way off on that one - How much electricity is lost in transmission and distribution in the United States?
all Teslas are automatic by default
"Manual" and "automatic" are terms used for describing how multi-ratio transmissions change which ratio is in use. Tesla only uses one ratio so there's no way to automatically, nor manually, change it. Transmissions that only use one ratio are known as a "simple".