"As long as this product competes fairly with all other products and said company doesn't use it to unfairly advertise to or unduly influence any segment of society to their own products,"
Do you mean that the baker that comes to our village each day on his cost with his truck to sell his products should be forced to sell other bakers' bread? Isn't that a bit UnAmerican?
"Extra battery insulation or "region-specific" battery insulation/thermal solution means that heating needs are severely reduced. It should match well the concept of electric cars being connected in parking spots, which is the likely way forward with BEVs."
In lots of Northern European countries, people have electric block-heaters installed that they plug into the parking space connector or they have a Webasto or other heating system to pre-heat the car engine and/or the interior, commanded by timer or cellphone. I live in Luxembourg and even here I have installed a battery-loader plug on the outside of my gas-car, that I connect with a short cable in my front yard, just in case. So it always starts, even if it's -25 out there, which it last was in the past millennium.
Also, lots of shift-workers have a Webasto because their car is always in the cold in the parking at work. It's so nice to come out when your car is already heated up, the snow is molten away and the windows are clean. Especially if your co-workers are still looking to identify their car under the snow.
PS. I just realized that Webasto is probably not as known in the US so here's a link. https://www.webasto.com/int/
It's a little gas or Diesel powered heating system, just as a big one in homes that is put somewhere in the cooling system of your car and thus heats your engine block and when it's hot enough, the interior heating opens and the interior is heated. You can also do it the other way round if you want.
"This thread has remained surprisingly civil somehow. Even our resident oil barons have provided clear ideas in a polite manner. Are the trolls all asleep still? Reminds me of/. posts pre-2016. I miss those."
You should have been here the last millennium. Those were the days. There were almost a dozen people who actually read the summary and even 1 or 2 times somebody actually read TFA!
You mean that this way you can see that you don't need half a billion people paying exorbitant taxes to do it if even a small socialist EU country can do it?
"Actually the other classic anti-EV argument, the off-grid remote cabin with no possibility of solar or wind power, is actually a thing in Norway too."
They get 95% of their power from hydro and those all in the sticks as well.
"The way Slashdot has morphed, I think they should start posting granola recipes and tofu snack ideas."
Or cat pictures. I wasted an hour or 2 to remove all the ad pictures and logos and the rest of the crap. Even though I read neither the article nor the summary, I want it clean.:-)
A plastic bag over a stop-sign should work too and it would get the non-Tesla drivers as well. Also continuing the middle line into the abyss and hiding the original line that goes around. Putting a fake stop-sign on the middle of the highway should be fun too.
"Grammarly is celebrating its 10th birthday by announcing that it's on the cusp of reaching 20 million daily active users, including both users of the free version and those who pay $30 a month (or $140 a year) for Grammarly Premium or $15 per user per month for Grammarly Business. That's up from 15 million last October and just 1 million at the end of 2015, the year it introduced its free version. The company is an uncommonly effective direct marketer; even if you've never tried its service yourself, there's a pretty good chance you've been exposed to it on YouTube. And even if you hit the "Skip Ad" button as fast as you could, enough viewers have paid attention that YouTube rated Grammarly's spot as the most effective "TrueView for Action" ad of 2018, based on reach, clicks, and engagement."
I just ran the above through Grammarly and it reported 'Passive Voice Misuse'
"The upshot is that anandamide, a natural cannabinoid, builds up in the system. Cameron has twice as much anandamide as those in the general population."
IOW the bitch has been high as a kite all her life. I guess for a teacher that helps.
"This whole thing came about because the astronaut in question was fitted for the large torso, but on orbit determined that the medium torso was a better fit "
Fitted or not, with all that training that's needed, NASA couldn't get the size of an astronaut right?
Music taste gets defined between 12 and 18 years of age. To download all the music you ever heard in these years you'll need about 10 minutes of torrenting nowadays. Then you don't have to pay for Spotify, Amazon or Apple music, ever.
""The whole purpose of WIPP is to isolate this long-lived radioactive, hazardous waste from the accessible environment, from people and the things people need in order to live life on Earth,"...with armed guards for 184.000 years only, a piece of cake, cost-wise.
Slashdot Mirror
A car may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A car must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A car must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
"As long as this product competes fairly with all other products and said company doesn't use it to unfairly advertise to or unduly influence any segment of society to their own products,"
Do you mean that the baker that comes to our village each day on his cost with his truck to sell his products should be forced to sell other bakers' bread?
Isn't that a bit UnAmerican?
"Extra battery insulation or "region-specific" battery insulation/thermal solution means that heating needs are severely reduced. It should match well the concept of electric cars being connected in parking spots, which is the likely way forward with BEVs."
In lots of Northern European countries, people have electric block-heaters installed that they plug into the parking space connector or they have a Webasto or other heating system to pre-heat the car engine and/or the interior, commanded by timer or cellphone.
I live in Luxembourg and even here I have installed a battery-loader plug on the outside of my gas-car, that I connect with a short cable in my front yard, just in case.
So it always starts, even if it's -25 out there, which it last was in the past millennium.
Also, lots of shift-workers have a Webasto because their car is always in the cold in the parking at work.
It's so nice to come out when your car is already heated up, the snow is molten away and the windows are clean. Especially if your co-workers are still looking to identify their car under the snow.
PS. I just realized that Webasto is probably not as known in the US so here's a link.
https://www.webasto.com/int/
It's a little gas or Diesel powered heating system, just as a big one in homes that is put somewhere in the cooling system of your car and thus heats your engine block and when it's hot enough, the interior heating opens and the interior is heated. You can also do it the other way round if you want.
"This thread has remained surprisingly civil somehow. Even our resident oil barons have provided clear ideas in a polite manner. Are the trolls all asleep still? Reminds me of /. posts pre-2016. I miss those."
You should have been here the last millennium.
Those were the days.
There were almost a dozen people who actually read the summary and even 1 or 2 times somebody actually read TFA!
"And they don't have a big population either. "
You mean that this way you can see that you don't need half a billion people paying exorbitant taxes to do it if even a small socialist EU country can do it?
"Actually the other classic anti-EV argument, the off-grid remote cabin with no possibility of solar or wind power, is actually a thing in Norway too."
They get 95% of their power from hydro and those all in the sticks as well.
"The way Slashdot has morphed, I think they should start posting granola recipes and tofu snack ideas."
Or cat pictures. I wasted an hour or 2 to remove all the ad pictures and logos and the rest of the crap.
Even though I read neither the article nor the summary, I want it clean.:-)
"Btw: Am I the only one not receiving slashdot reply notifications anymore?"
Ditto here. Also, I haven't been asked for years to pay up.
A plastic bag over a stop-sign should work too and it would get the non-Tesla drivers as well.
Also continuing the middle line into the abyss and hiding the original line that goes around.
Putting a fake stop-sign on the middle of the highway should be fun too.
No need to be a 'researcher' for stuff like that.
"A VPN that doesn't slow you down? "
They have the full Internets cached in a truck in front of your house.
"Grammarly is celebrating its 10th birthday by announcing that it's on the cusp of reaching 20 million daily active users, including both users of the free version and those who pay $30 a month (or $140 a year) for Grammarly Premium or $15 per user per month for Grammarly Business. That's up from 15 million last October and just 1 million at the end of 2015, the year it introduced its free version. The company is an uncommonly effective direct marketer; even if you've never tried its service yourself, there's a pretty good chance you've been exposed to it on YouTube. And even if you hit the "Skip Ad" button as fast as you could, enough viewers have paid attention that YouTube rated Grammarly's spot as the most effective "TrueView for Action" ad of 2018, based on reach, clicks, and engagement."
I just ran the above through Grammarly and it reported 'Passive Voice Misuse'
"Several years of posts? This looks like a deliberate attempt to destroy evidence/hide something."
Just the usual racist, misogynist, homo- and xenophobe stuff I guess.
Betteridge's law of headlines says so.
"The upshot is that anandamide, a natural cannabinoid, builds up in the system. Cameron has twice as much anandamide as those in the general population."
IOW the bitch has been high as a kite all her life.
I guess for a teacher that helps.
They build it in Texas, they close fossil fuel plants so you can bet your ass that money can be made this way.
""Computers on Tesla vehicles keep everything that drivers have voluntarily stored on their cars, "
Just like any other car as well. Computers in cars don't get wiped automatically just because you drive it to the scrap yard.
If you don't remove your sunglasses and wallet from the glove compartment they will also still be there.
"This whole thing came about because the astronaut in question was fitted for the large torso, but on orbit determined that the medium torso was a better fit "
Fitted or not, with all that training that's needed, NASA couldn't get the size of an astronaut right?
Music taste gets defined between 12 and 18 years of age. To download all the music you ever heard in these years you'll need about 10 minutes of torrenting nowadays.
Then you don't have to pay for Spotify, Amazon or Apple music, ever.
""The whole purpose of WIPP is to isolate this long-lived radioactive, hazardous waste from the accessible environment, from people and the things people need in order to live life on Earth," ...with armed guards for 184.000 years only, a piece of cake, cost-wise.
That's the gist of it.
...is now just a guy?
They suck!
This one doesn't even have the 3 laws.
'Measles was a minor annoyance illness for thousands of years before anyone invented a vaccine. It's just not that bad.'
You're an idiot or you're Jenny McCarthy.
"In 2011, the WHO estimated that there were about 158,000 deaths caused by measles. This is down from 630,000 deaths in 1990.[4] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"There is NO RISK WHATSOEVER. All the cases of autism and other iatrogenic diseases caused by vaccines are FAKE NEWS."
Shut up, Jenny McCarthy.