Big cells aren’t necessarily good… if something goes wrong that’s a lot of energy being impacted. If a cell goes bad, that’s a more expensive option repair. I’m sure there’s other issues as well.

It can save on initial costs though in various ways as well.

There’s going to be some equilibrium where size, cost, safety all converge

What makes you think she isn’t in the files we haven’t seen and was already an accomplice?

Seems plausible enough, PAM - Are you hiding that you’re in the files? I’m just asking questions!

I know I can get it, I just can’t be bothered and don’t want to spend the money.

I don’t know how many electrical components there are where you can just multiply the power by 500 or 1000 without frying them

They put an inverter on the battery and can route power more cleanly than from the front of the vehicle in the small battery, without worrying about draining the 12v in front and killing the car from starting. It also lets them do more than the could before as all the new tech is power hungry. (Edit: Think more spiderweb directly to locations, instead of routing everything from 1 point in the front)

I do agree with you that they all should have started sooner when there were better incentives.

Edit: Like you aren’t watching Netflix and/or camping in a cooled or heated car for hours on end unless it’s a battery hybrid or BEV and it’s running off the HV battery through an inverter.

Edit: here’s an article talking about wiring and Ford having 1.6km of extra wiring vs tesla/chinese OEMs who rethought the electronics system specifically for EVs. It’s new thinking like this where you have the HV battery (which is/was expensive) to get your costs down and make it profitable. Less weight, cheaper for parts, and cheaper to install/maintain. This is hundreds of dollars in savings when they’re already struggling on profitability. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-tore-apart-tesla-found-160356371.html

Ya, macs are definitely more efficient with their ram.

I’ll have Android Studio open for my main work, Intellij Idea for all the backend work, and Xcode when I need to tweak some iPhone things. (edit: usually it’s just 2 of the 3, but sometimes its all 3)

I also mainly use real devices for testing,and opening emulators if all 3 are open can be a problem, and it’s so annoying opening and closing things.

Glad they were able to help sort you out there, that could have been a disaster.

I wish I had a 32gb ram laptop.

I can have 3 development IDEs open at once, and with all the browser tabs open and a few other programs here and there its stretching the limits on my Mac.

Oh man i could just imagine going to replace my birth certificate because its damaged, and when they ask to prove my identity, say it’s not valid because of damage and then deport me on the spot.

I like looking at the image that gets posted now and then of all the refineries, how large they are, how many times they’ve been hit, which ones haven’t been hit etc, knowing that the unhit ones are just begging to be hit.

Hearing about another one getting hit is amazing.

I really hope they’ve somehow cooked up another drone in land vehicle attack and are able to hit those ones that are many thousands of km away

I’m a Canadian so I don’t have to put up with this… but I don’t think I could legally prove citizenship on the spot though.

I do have a birth certificate, but it’s damaged, and would be considered invalid. It would cost me money to replace.

I never upgraded downgraded to Win11 so I haven’t seen a lot of this BS.

It really is as simple as a big battery with a bit of temperature management, couple of electric motors (breathtakingly simple, very old technology), recharge the 12V battery for all your regular car electronics for which you reuse all your existing parts, and now you have an electric car.

Lol dude.

If you want to have a shitty ass car sure.

Its a whole new way of thinking about heating and cooling the battery which has to be a car wide system, otherwise you waste so much heat and end up having an inefficient car that needs more batteries, which adds more weight which lowers range which makes it harder to sell.

And ignoring the HV battery and doing everything off the 12v is also a waste, they all redesign the electrical system to work off the HV battery through an inverter. Some is still off of the 12v battery but its not optimized if you do that only using the 12v.

Then you gotta totally rethink aerodynamics because every bit counts towards getting good efficiency, otherwise you’re once again adding more batteries which further increases cost while lowering efficiency.

Same for motors, ya, we have motors, but efficient motors for cars, wasn’t a thing. All the EV companies are iterating heavily on making a super efficient motor and for the first few iterations, they weren’t as efficient as they could be, meaning more batteries, so more weight more expensive less efficient. Rare earth magnets for permanent magnet motors aren’t cheap, and there are trade offs to not using them in motors, to the point where some use a mix of different types of motors, which again is a complicated process to work through.

Then they gotta do the whole HV charging architecture which has led to multiple recalls across many brands. We have Hyundai with controller problems for years now.

We have cars being recalled due to fire risk not from the cells themselves which would be the OEM like LGs fault, but from bad battery architecture as well which is the car manufacturers fault.

We have cars like the mustang mach e originally overheating and being throttled.

We have early tries like Nisan with air cooling on the leaf which lead to batteries going bad early.

The list goes on and on, its not simple, or easy to make profitable.

Companies like Hyundai have at least committed and gone through the many years of losses to get to where they are now, and we have more knowledge today, but its still hard and complicated and expensive.

Edit: its not like Tesla started with the Model Y. They had to figure out how to do things in the Model S cost effectively while building wholly new supply chains which was expensive, which gave them more leeway on margins. GM went the opposite route and started with the Bolt, but it was a money loser even though it had appeal. The bolt was very good for learning though.

He updated the microslop site!

https://microslop.com/

Ya, I do like my Mac, the track pad is phenomenal as well.

But fuck everything about their prices, or at least the laptop prices…

If I didn’t need a mac for work (iOS development), I’d probably try a linux laptop next.

I know it wouldn’t play out like this, but I can just imagine owing 50% on child support, then that 35% garnished for medical debts, and both departments are like fuck you we want our money to each other so they garnish 85% instead of working with each other.

They didnt know how to build an EV profitably, its not that they magically could have made something cheaper and better.

Its not as simple as just throw a battery in it an voila.

GM, Ford, Stellantis are all struggling with how to do it profitably.

People liked the Bolt and its pricing, but it wasn’t profitable.

Well that’s good to hear there’s at least some sanity out there.

Notepad saves on exit now? Wtf.

I got 96gb of regular ddr4 and 12gb of GGDR6X video memory, willing to trade for a single family home.

Everything else aside, why the fuck can they garnish 35% of a low income worker wage. If garnishing is a thing, there should be some kinds of means testing based on income that makes it a sliding scale that is substantially lower than 35% for a McDonalds worker.