If you think burning fossil fuels in an ICE at 25% efficiency is green, then keep on sending your money to the terrorists.... EVs emit less CO2 than ICE cars even if the electricity comes from dirty coal because there is much higher efficiency at all stages. Coal is on it's way out for electricity generation, BTW, in case you haven't heard. Worldwide coal consumption has decreased for the past few years and the "war on coal" is just getting started. Wind and solar electricity are now cost competitive with coal and much cheaper than nuclear. EV cars are much cheaper than gas... even the cheap gas we have today. Gas would have to go below $0.50 a gallon to be cheaper than electricity for cars.
I agree. Automotive electronic are generally stupid and far behind times. Most every new car today has electronic features which are laughable compared to consumer electronics. Worse, they can't be upgraded and won't be upgraded so you'll be stuck with it until you sell the car. Microsoft tried to make car software which Ford used but the software was typical of the garbage that MS produces. It would be great if Apple made car software. We might get some good car software for a change. (Tesla seems to be the one manufacturer which actually "gets it" with car software. Their entire car is run by software and it's updated every few months to add features, etc. But then, they've hired a lot of Apple people.)
Apple doesn't manufacture anything (except a few high end computers), everything is outsourced to a contract manufacturer. They would probably outsource car manufacturing to someone who actually knew how to manufacture cars.
Most EVs have batteries with a total storage capacity of about 20 to 40 kWh and a recharge rate of about 5 kW. Electricity costs 10 to 20 cents per kWh so a one hour charge costs $0.50 to $1.00. This is enough to get most people back on the road to their destination and it won't break the bank. Teslas are different with a battery capacity of 85 kWh and a charge rate at a Supercharger of about 100 kW. Superchargers are "free" (you do have to buy the car) so you could theoretically drive anywhere without paying anything for "fuel".
You are right. It's difficult to compare gas stations and EV charge points since they are used differently. In your ICE (Internal combustion engine) car, when you run low on gas you drive to the gas station and fill up. You might do this once or twice a week and you need to count the time it takes to get to the gas station and back to your route as well as the short time to fill up. In an EV, you usually just plug the car in at home at night and it's "full" in the morning. Takes about 10 seconds to plug in. Alternatively, you may have a charge point at work and plug in during the day. It's rare for an EV driver to need to fill up while driving around during the day. The total time that most people spend recharging is just the few seconds it takes to plug in the car. The one exception is long distance travel. Most EVs have a range of less than 100 miles which meet the needs of most "daily drivers" but they are not designed for cross country travel. The Tesla with a range of 200-300 miles can work for long distance cross country travel because of the Supercharger network. These are spaced every 100-200 miles along major travel routes and take about 20-30 minutes to recharge so you can easily travel cross country. But again, cross country travel is unusual, most people just drive around near home or commute to work and plug in at night so they never have to worry about stopping to charge during the day.
I switched to H&R block also about 10 years ago when they made their asshat move where you could only use their software one time and had to pay more if you wanted to do taxes for your relatives. I've been very happy with their software... works well with good support.
He bought a car with the ability to blind oncoming drivers. This is illegal. The manufacturer fixed the car so it now meets regulations. If he still wants to blind oncoming drivers, there is a thing called "high beam" which he can use whenever he wants... just hope that it's not a highway patrol he's blinding. Your computer analogy is stupid... how about a car analogy?
OMG! The geniuses at/. have again come up with something that I'm sure no automotive software engineer has ever considered. Quick! Call the auto companies and tell the they are about to make a big mistake. I'm sure they will thank you profusely.
My Macbook Air 2010 worked fine with wifi until I "upgraded" to Yosemite... since then very flaky wifi... spontaneous disconnects, only connects on wake about half the time. I've tried a lot of the "fixes" on the forums and still have problems. Most of the time I have to reboot to get it to connect reliably (until it goes to sleep). Yosemite also features a crappy UI and Spotlight has lost much of its usefulness. Apple's software is going down hill fast. No more "upgrades" for me.
Politicians don't pay attention to voters. They follow the money. Koch et al who are making big bucks from fossil fuels control the politicians. You can find similar polls on other topics... gun control, health care, education, etc. Politicians vote for the policies of their donors. The US has the most corrupt political system... it's really fascism where the corporations and the rich control the government.
OMG! Quick somebody tell these people that the experts here at/. have decided that they are making a big mistake. I'm sure they will be grateful for all of the expert opinions of our hive mind since it will save them from making a BIG MISTAKE. (OTOH, you could RTFA.)
"Why? Well, a couple of reasons. First, if you're like me, your hand will be on the mouse a lot causing it to be warm. Second, mice get abused and break too easily." I think you're doing it wrong. Stop abusing your "mouse" and it won't get warm and break.
This sounds like a big problem but beyond the manufacturing plants, about 80% of all antibiotics are fed to animals to make them grow faster (more profits) and these also end up in rivers all over the world. Also, animal farms are incubators for drug resistant bacteria.
TFS asked for comments from people who have seen the movie... maybe nobody has seen the movie. It's clear that you haven't seen the movie and from your comment it's clear why they asked for comments from people who have seen the movie.
I had a Keurig but got tired of buying expensive coffee that was ground and packaged months (years?) earlier... especially once they started raising the prices of the pods. I gave the machine away and replaced it with a good coffee grinder, an AeroPress (and a nice pump espresso machine)... much better coffee and much cheaper. The AeroPress is just as fast (if somewhat messier) than the pod machine.
Also... from TFAbstract, they chose the date because all of the nuclear explosions have left a clear marker of radioisotopes which can be easily located when tracing the geological record.
Do you know that it is very easy to get any Linux ISO from any version/distro from this "Internet" thingy? Why are you hoarding Linux ISOs? Are you afraid the world might end and you'll need to save it with an old Linux ISO?
You only see the old buildings which were built well because the cheaply built ones have all fallen down. It doesn't mean that there weren't cheaply built buildings in the past.
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If you think burning fossil fuels in an ICE at 25% efficiency is green, then keep on sending your money to the terrorists.... EVs emit less CO2 than ICE cars even if the electricity comes from dirty coal because there is much higher efficiency at all stages. Coal is on it's way out for electricity generation, BTW, in case you haven't heard. Worldwide coal consumption has decreased for the past few years and the "war on coal" is just getting started. Wind and solar electricity are now cost competitive with coal and much cheaper than nuclear.
EV cars are much cheaper than gas... even the cheap gas we have today. Gas would have to go below $0.50 a gallon to be cheaper than electricity for cars.
Right.
Most EV owners charge at home using the plug already installed in their garage. So... millions of charge points already installed.
I agree. Automotive electronic are generally stupid and far behind times. Most every new car today has electronic features which are laughable compared to consumer electronics. Worse, they can't be upgraded and won't be upgraded so you'll be stuck with it until you sell the car. Microsoft tried to make car software which Ford used but the software was typical of the garbage that MS produces.
It would be great if Apple made car software. We might get some good car software for a change.
(Tesla seems to be the one manufacturer which actually "gets it" with car software. Their entire car is run by software and it's updated every few months to add features, etc. But then, they've hired a lot of Apple people.)
Apple doesn't manufacture anything (except a few high end computers), everything is outsourced to a contract manufacturer. They would probably outsource car manufacturing to someone who actually knew how to manufacture cars.
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Most EVs have batteries with a total storage capacity of about 20 to 40 kWh and a recharge rate of about 5 kW. Electricity costs 10 to 20 cents per kWh so a one hour charge costs $0.50 to $1.00. This is enough to get most people back on the road to their destination and it won't break the bank.
Teslas are different with a battery capacity of 85 kWh and a charge rate at a Supercharger of about 100 kW. Superchargers are "free" (you do have to buy the car) so you could theoretically drive anywhere without paying anything for "fuel".
You are right. It's difficult to compare gas stations and EV charge points since they are used differently.
In your ICE (Internal combustion engine) car, when you run low on gas you drive to the gas station and fill up. You might do this once or twice a week and you need to count the time it takes to get to the gas station and back to your route as well as the short time to fill up.
In an EV, you usually just plug the car in at home at night and it's "full" in the morning. Takes about 10 seconds to plug in. Alternatively, you may have a charge point at work and plug in during the day. It's rare for an EV driver to need to fill up while driving around during the day. The total time that most people spend recharging is just the few seconds it takes to plug in the car.
The one exception is long distance travel. Most EVs have a range of less than 100 miles which meet the needs of most "daily drivers" but they are not designed for cross country travel. The Tesla with a range of 200-300 miles can work for long distance cross country travel because of the Supercharger network. These are spaced every 100-200 miles along major travel routes and take about 20-30 minutes to recharge so you can easily travel cross country. But again, cross country travel is unusual, most people just drive around near home or commute to work and plug in at night so they never have to worry about stopping to charge during the day.
http://www.plugshare.com/
Type Tokyo into the search bar. There are about a bazillion chargers.
http://www.plugshare.com/ (Google is your friend)
http://www.chargepoint.com/
https://www.blinknetwork.com/
I switched to H&R block also about 10 years ago when they made their asshat move where you could only use their software one time and had to pay more if you wanted to do taxes for your relatives.
I've been very happy with their software... works well with good support.
He bought a car with the ability to blind oncoming drivers. This is illegal. The manufacturer fixed the car so it now meets regulations. If he still wants to blind oncoming drivers, there is a thing called "high beam" which he can use whenever he wants... just hope that it's not a highway patrol he's blinding.
Your computer analogy is stupid... how about a car analogy?
OMG! The geniuses at /. have again come up with something that I'm sure no automotive software engineer has ever considered.
Quick! Call the auto companies and tell the they are about to make a big mistake. I'm sure they will thank you profusely.
So you want to have the right to blind oncoming drivers without pesky interference from the gumment?
My Macbook Air 2010 worked fine with wifi until I "upgraded" to Yosemite... since then very flaky wifi... spontaneous disconnects, only connects on wake about half the time. I've tried a lot of the "fixes" on the forums and still have problems. Most of the time I have to reboot to get it to connect reliably (until it goes to sleep).
Yosemite also features a crappy UI and Spotlight has lost much of its usefulness. Apple's software is going down hill fast. No more "upgrades" for me.
Politicians don't pay attention to voters. They follow the money. Koch et al who are making big bucks from fossil fuels control the politicians.
You can find similar polls on other topics... gun control, health care, education, etc. Politicians vote for the policies of their donors.
The US has the most corrupt political system... it's really fascism where the corporations and the rich control the government.
OMG! Quick somebody tell these people that the experts here at /. have decided that they are making a big mistake. I'm sure they will be grateful for all of the expert opinions of our hive mind since it will save them from making a BIG MISTAKE.
(OTOH, you could RTFA.)
Whoosh... ;)
"Why? Well, a couple of reasons. First, if you're like me, your hand will be on the mouse a lot causing it to be warm. Second, mice get abused and break too easily."
I think you're doing it wrong.
Stop abusing your "mouse" and it won't get warm and break.
This sounds like a big problem but beyond the manufacturing plants, about 80% of all antibiotics are fed to animals to make them grow faster (more profits) and these also end up in rivers all over the world. Also, animal farms are incubators for drug resistant bacteria.
TFS asked for comments from people who have seen the movie... maybe nobody has seen the movie.
It's clear that you haven't seen the movie and from your comment it's clear why they asked for comments from people who have seen the movie.
I had a Keurig but got tired of buying expensive coffee that was ground and packaged months (years?) earlier... especially once they started raising the prices of the pods. I gave the machine away and replaced it with a good coffee grinder, an AeroPress (and a nice pump espresso machine)... much better coffee and much cheaper. The AeroPress is just as fast (if somewhat messier) than the pod machine.
Also... from TFAbstract, they chose the date because all of the nuclear explosions have left a clear marker of radioisotopes which can be easily located when tracing the geological record.
A new dimension for "range anxiety".
Do you know that it is very easy to get any Linux ISO from any version/distro from this "Internet" thingy? Why are you hoarding Linux ISOs? Are you afraid the world might end and you'll need to save it with an old Linux ISO?
You only see the old buildings which were built well because the cheaply built ones have all fallen down. It doesn't mean that there weren't cheaply built buildings in the past.