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Yes unfortunately EV's will not be able to be heavily modified by engineering teams for impractically long cargoless scooter trips at 40mph. Such a shame they w

by elif 3y ago

Yes unfortunately EV's will not be able to be heavily modified by engineering teams for impractically long cargoless scooter trips at 40mph. Such a shame they will only be useful for virtually all practical trips.

zitsarethecure 3y ago
Indeed, if you want an impressively impractical trip in an impressively impractical custom built EV, you'll have to make due with the world solar challenge. 3000+ kilometers at highway speed, carrying more than 1 person, and entirely on solar power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge
aaron695 3y ago
What a useless comment. Why are you on Hacker News when you clearly are not a Hacker and don't have the IQ to understand such a simple, interesting point OP is making. Is it jealousy because OP travels and they want to hack it out even further than the normal model gives them? Why put them down otherwise? What EV cars do is exactly what is happening here, they are highly aerodynamic and weight reduced, at the cost of practical things. They have to, to get distance.
- cantaloupe 3y ago
  Is this satire? - dubious IQ (dIQ) measuring - incorrect accusation of “putting them down” immediately following an ad hominem attack - unspecific “insight” that EVs sacrifice practical things to get distance, when the parent and OP were both basically saying the opposite: EVs sacrifice distance for practicality
  - filoleg 3y ago
    Yeah, I am really confused too, given that the grandparent comment was making a pretty sane and relevant point. Sure it was a bit snarky and tongue in cheek, but it definitely wasn't something even remotely close to intellectually deserve a low-IQ attack (not even mentioning that those attacks aren't appropriate on HN regardless of the intellectual merit of the point).

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Yes unfortunately EV's will not be able to be heavily modified by engineering teams for impractically long cargoless scooter trips at 40mph. Such a shame they w

by elif 3y ago

zitsarethecure 3y ago
Indeed, if you want an impressively impractical trip in an impressively impractical custom built EV, you'll have to make due with the world solar challenge. 3000+ kilometers at highway speed, carrying more than 1 person, and entirely on solar power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge
aaron695 3y ago
What a useless comment. Why are you on Hacker News when you clearly are not a Hacker and don't have the IQ to understand such a simple, interesting point OP is making. Is it jealousy because OP travels and they want to hack it out even further than the normal model gives them? Why put them down otherwise? What EV cars do is exactly what is happening here, they are highly aerodynamic and weight reduced, at the cost of practical things. They have to, to get distance.
- cantaloupe 3y ago
  Is this satire? - dubious IQ (dIQ) measuring - incorrect accusation of “putting them down” immediately following an ad hominem attack - unspecific “insight” that EVs sacrifice practical things to get distance, when the parent and OP were both basically saying the opposite: EVs sacrifice distance for practicality
  - filoleg 3y ago
    Yeah, I am really confused too, given that the grandparent comment was making a pretty sane and relevant point. Sure it was a bit snarky and tongue in cheek, but it definitely wasn't something even remotely close to intellectually deserve a low-IQ attack (not even mentioning that those attacks aren't appropriate on HN regardless of the intellectual merit of the point).