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by ggreer 2y ago
Removable batteries are a trade-off. They improve repairability and device longevity, but they increase manufacturing costs, reduce the effectiveness of waterproofing, and increase customer support issues. Battery contacts can degrade or be
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by ggreer 2y ago
I'm happy to be corrected on this, but your source says nothing about the kind of cookies I mentioned. Examples of strictly necessary cookies are auth sessions and shopping cart contents, not preferred language or default location. Par
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The EU didn't mandate micro USB. It was a voluntary standard and it considered a manufacturer to be in compliance if they shipped an adapter (which is what Apple did). The fact that it was voluntary and allowed adapters is why USB-C ma
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by ggreer 2y ago
There are a lot of laws and not all of them get updated, as regulatory bodies only have so much time, attention, and political capital. The EU's cookie law still requires a banner if your site uses a cookie to store something like pref
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by ggreer 2y ago
I never said the GDPR was the cookie law. I was just linking to a site that summarized the actual law. If storing preferred language in a cookie (without any uniquely identifying info) does not require a cookie banner, then I'd be happ
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by ggreer 2y ago
The EU's cookie law still requires a banner for everything except "strictly necessary cookies",[1] which means you must have a banner if you use cookies to save preferred language, default location, or any internal analytics
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I understand the reasoning behind this law, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea in the long term. Had the EU passed a similar law a decade ago, they would be stuck on mini or micro USB today. There will probably be some plug that
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by ggreer 2y ago
Of the existing plans to ban the purchase of gas vehicles in the future, do any have exemptions for low volume production of enthusiast vehicles? California's plan (which 17 other states follow) seems to only have exemptions for heavy
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CRTs used to be cheap because they were made in high volumes and had a large ecosystem of parts suppliers. If you were to make a CRT today, you'd need to fabricate a lot more parts yourself, and the low volume production would require
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by ggreer 2y ago
How are you calculating that? Solar installations are around $2.50-$3.50 per watt, so $20k would get you 6-8kW. Assuming actual output is 10% of capacity, that's 14-19kWh/day or 5,000-7,000kWh per year. Current residential electri
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The linked article is about a backpack nuke. My comment was responding to the possibility of a terrorist group smuggling a tactical nuke or dirty bomb into the country. I was correcting some common misconceptions about such a scenario. I wa
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Because every nuclear power developed their own enrichment processes and bomb technology, their bombs have different isotope ratios in the fallout. It's possible to analyze the fallout to determine where the bomb came from. That might
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by ggreer 2y ago
If you look at the NHTSA's data[1], certain manufacturers have strangely low numbers of reports, and some manufacturers seem to be missing from the data entirely. If you read the NHTSA's standing order[2], it says: > Crashes th
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by ggreer 2y ago
It was bad a couple years ago but has gotten a lot better. The reason for this was that Tesla scaled up manufacturing quickly, but took longer to scale up service centers and certify third party shops. For a while there was only one certifi
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by ggreer 2y ago
Both of those companies have much higher costs per charger than Tesla. Kempower doesn't make their prices public, but the cheapest I could find was $50,000 for a 1 port 50kW charger. A dual port 200kW charger was almost $200,000. Alptr
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Longer cables have significant disadvantages. They cost more. They're less efficient, meaning they charge slower and/or require more cooling. They contain more metal, making them more appealing to thieves. They get tangled and dam
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It's important to distinguish Tesla from other companies. The others haven't figured out how to make chargers cheaply yet, so they're forced to ask for subsidies. That's why Tesla's bids on that Texas contract were
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by ggreer 2y ago
Before the ISO standard existed, Tesla had their own implementation of plug and charge. They've since added support for ISO 15118, allowing non-Teslas to charge at supercharging stations without using the Tesla app.[1] The issue is tha
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Companies tend not to publish their costs, but we can find some info about the economics of charging stations. A grant program in Texas subsidized up to 70% of the cost of charging stations. Tesla bid $500k for a fast charging station with
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by ggreer 2y ago
Rivian placed their charging port on the front left corner, while Teslas have ports on the rear left corner. So to charge a Rivian at a Tesla Supercharger, you have to park in the adjacent spot and plug in.[1] More Supercharging stations ar
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You don't even need the contactless credit card reader. ISO 15118 is the standard for plug and charge.[1] Tesla implements it, as do most other EV manufacturers. The problem is that charging networks and manufacturers haven't sett
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by ggreer 2y ago
Older cars had fewer safety regulations, so they could play around with more designs. Also a lot of the old photos in that post are of concept cars or race cars, not production vehicles. The Aptera has a unique design because it is consider
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by ggreer 2y ago
I was just saying that the vehicle is commercially available, not that it was a better option for the US Postal Service. But $83,000 is the retail price. Anyone buying in bulk will get them for significantly cheaper. The $60k for the NGDV i
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The NGDV's gross vehicle weight rating is 8,501lbs so that it is classified by the EPA as a heavy-duty truck. If the rating were a pound less, it would be classified as a light-duty truck and have much stricter emissions standards.
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My point was that a much more capable vehicle could be purchased for a similar price. Depending on the use case, of course other commercial vehicles would make more sense. The smaller versions of the Ford Transit are a popular option among
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I used the eSprinter as one example, not the only option. Maybe something like the Ford eTransit or the Rivian EDV is a better fit for postal deliveries. My point is that other delivery companies and postal services use commercial vehicles,
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by ggreer 2y ago
The Rivian vans are commercially available.[1] Like the NGDV, they have a side door and an 80 inch interior height so that nobody has to stoop while in the cargo bay. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivian_EDV
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I wondered why other delivery companies use commercial vehicles instead of NGDVs or LLVs, and the answer is that commercial vehicles are more capable while being significantly cheaper. NGDVs cost $60,000 each, and that's for half of th
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by ggreer 2y ago
The 2024 update in this post (which claims the worst brands are Tesla, Kia, Buick, Dodge, and then Hyundai, in that order) uses data from an iSeeCars blog post[1], which claims to have gotten their data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Repor
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The problem is that cookie law requires consent not just for tracking cookies, but for everything except "strictly necessary cookies".[1] This means that any cookie that stores preferences (preferred language, location for weather

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