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I’m out for 2-3 days. Better take an external battery for the phone. Done. Doesn’t work with a car. Really easy to work around Apple’s utterly crap battery li

• nicoburns 1y ago
  It really should work with a car (there's no reason why they couldn't support additional external battery packs in the trunk or as a trailer, etc).
  • harry8 1y ago
    for $10, right?
    • mitthrowaway2 1y ago
      Renting a U-Haul starts at $19.95 per day...
      • harry8 1y ago
        Uh. How much do car batteries cost again?
        • Dylan16807 1y ago
          A hell of a lot less than entire trucks.
          • harry8 1y ago
            I think maybe there’s some cross thread confusion. The comparison I’m making is an external phone battery is $10. Replacing an ev battery is, hell i dunno, $10.000? Not needing an external phone battery would be nice. Needing external ev batteries is far more likely to be cost prohibitive. Adjacent to this thread people have raised size and weight issues as well. I didn’t even bother going that far because the straight up price puts it in a different ball park to an external phone battery. Hope we’re all on the same page again!
            • Dylan16807 1y ago
              Right, that's the discussion up to a certain spot. Then the GP had a counterargument to EV batteries being expensive, by suggesting you could rent one for your three day trip for a pretty small amount of money. And not only would that charge be quite small compared to everything else going on with your car, the further you drive with the extended battery the more you save by electricity being cheaper than gasoline. And that includes having to pay for depreciation.
              • harry8 1y ago
                Well something is up because i simply do not see that counter argument anywhere in this thread. Crazy huh?
                • Dylan16807 1y ago
                  "Renting a U-Haul starts at $19.95 per day..." So in the scale between $10 and $10000, it would be like renting a big piece of road equipment, not buying one. To be clear the middle paragraph of my post was explaining why I think they said that, and the last paragraph was me adding my own commentary. I wasn't suggesting they were implying the part about gas savings, that was all me.
                  • mitthrowaway2 1y ago
                    (Thank you Dylan16807, your interpretation is correct, and I apologize to harry8 because I didn't realize that my comment would read so cryptically when I wrote it).
  • margalabargala 1y ago
    The reason is that batteries are heavy. Want an extra 100 miles of range? That's 600lbs of cargo. A person can't place that in a trunk, and a trailer would probably barely extend range due to the extra drag and efficiency loss.
• Dylan16807 1y ago
  It's obviously more valuable to double the range of a car compared to a phone. But is it multiple thousands of times more valuable? I don't think so.
  • maximus-decimus 1y ago
    I don't understand your point. EV batteries won't cost multiple thousands of times more for the exact same battery that would go in a phone. If you pay 1000 times more for 1000 times more battery, I don't see the problem. If anything, they probably want 1000 times more demand so they can gain economies of scale.
    • Dylan16807 1y ago
      > If you pay 1000 times more for 1000 times more battery, I don't see the problem. We know that "if" isn't true. That's the problem with the argument for only making EV batteries. A car battery is five thousand times as big as a phone battery and it's only hundreds of times as expensive.
• ashdksnndck 1y ago
  To fix iPhone battery life, create an automation that turns on battery save mode when battery dips below 80%. Works really well. I figure they don’t build this functionality into the settings because people would use it instead of buying a new phone when the battery degrades.
  • gmac 1y ago
    Similarly, I use an automation that turns on low power mode any time the phone’s not charging. Not found any real downsides to this.