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by rgmerk 3y ago
The same proportion of G-class Benzes, Range Rovers and Lexus LXes that go off-road.
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by rgmerk 3y ago
There really isn't. US grid losses are about 5% [1] and charging loses another 10-15%, and the motors are at least 90% efficient. Meanwhile, automotive diesel engines lose 60% straight out the exhaust pipe, and that's not counting
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by rgmerk 3y ago
As much as I can’t stand full-size pickups, a Chevy Silverado EV has the towing range to make towing the trailer a lot more practical. One potentially interesting option that the author hasn’t tried is a yacht. Anybody seen any accounts of
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by rgmerk 3y ago
It doesn’t sound like he did. Laundromats would have been ideal for this kind of, well, money laundering. In a pre-digital era, who’s going to check that the number of cycles on the washing machines line up exactly with the takings?
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by rgmerk 3y ago
The Fully Charged Show has an excellent (and remarkably candid given his position) interview with Ford CEO Jim Farley explaining why legacy automakers, including Ford, struggle so much with software. In short, they are trying to integrate m
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by rgmerk 3y ago
How many Ioniq 5s have been sold globally? And how many similar incidents have there been?
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by rgmerk 3y ago
Hmmm. How many items did a Uniqlo clerk scan per hour previously? I’ve no doubt that the costs work out, otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered…but over hundreds of items per hour the costs of the tags are nontrivial.
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by rgmerk 3y ago
Yep, the sim racing experience in a real car...
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by rgmerk 3y ago
You may well be aware that car manufacturers are doing something like this right now [1] in combustion engined cars. Hyundai is taking it a step further in their Ioniq 5 N EV, which has three different artificial sounds, one of which sound
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by rgmerk 3y ago
I think it's pretty fair to suggest that the United States (with very limited exceptions) is the least pedestrian-friendly country in the developed world.
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Ha! Sorry, I did miss that. And yes, that sounds like lazy reviewing . But I have also read many word salads from grad students that their supervisors should never have let go to a reviewer.
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I’ve been a reviewer and occasionally written reviews a bit like you describe. Papers are an exercise in communicating information to the paper’s readers. If the writing makes it very difficult for the audience to understand that informatio
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The existing toxic stuff was made offshore. It’s not the manufacturing that’s the issue, it’s the cutting to size. You can’t do that offshore. Indeed, in some circumstances cuts are made on the building site.
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This doesn’t take into account the realities of people in that industry. It’s highly fragmented, dominated by men and specifically younger men, who self-select for a high tolerance of risk and a low tolerance of rules. By the time they find
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Laminate is functionally fine. There's plenty of kitchens out there with it. Just doesn't look as nice (which is really shorthand for expensive) as stone.
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Fair points. But I reckon single pilot operation with emergency autoland will happen. The tech already exists for general aviation.
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It’s worth pointing out that there are also plenty of airliner crashes that are attributed to pilot error.
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Ships that use wave motion as auxiliary propulsion have already been built. A company called Wavefoil Technologies[1] designed a retractable foil that could be mounted on the bow of a ship. In moderate sea conditions, the vertical motion f
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by rgmerk 3y ago
And the EROI on solar is constantly improving. Every year we are using less material per cell to make more efficient cells.
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Some people go bonkers about the prospect of agricultural land being used for anything other than the more photogenic kinds of farming. Some of these people are farmers who object to having to pay market rates to buy or lease land, and shou
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Colour me skeptical. Floating a boat on water is a lot more expensive than sticking a steel frame into the ground.
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by rgmerk 3y ago
Equally, many large areas of water do not freeze in winter, and the places that do not tend to have more favourable economics for solar power anyway. Not to pick on you but a lot of the energy conversations on HN seem based on the premise t
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by rgmerk 3y ago
Ah, Helen Garner. An incredible writer. But The First Stone was an incredibly annoying book. Even in the 1990s, the idea that it was excusable in any way for the head of an educational institution to make a pass at an 18-year-old undergrad
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by rgmerk 3y ago
Indeed. While I’ll never own one, there is still something about the sound of a Mustang V8 going past.
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I don’t think that’s how the end of ICE vehicles will happen. It’ll be death by a thousand cuts. New ICE vehicles will be increasingly rare in showrooms. There will be bans in city centres. Gas stations will start to disappear. Those th
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by rgmerk 3y ago
A quick clarification - neither I nor the article were talking about mini EVs. It’s talking about vehicles the size of a Hyundai Kona or a Volkswagen T-Roc.
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In much of the world you can buy a BYD Atto 3, which sits in precisely this sector of the market. But not in the USA.
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Yes, and they're not the only ones building EV sports cars. Personally, while it's not an EV, I'd take one of these at less than one-tenth the price: [1] https://www.hyperracer.com/x1racer Also makes mincemea
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It has its defenders - including among HN commenters that own one - but the Plaid seems to me to be an extremely silly vehicle.
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Cybertruck won’t be sold much anywhere outside the USA and Canada. There is a small but growing market in Australia for full-size American pickups, which are (expensively) converted to right-hand-drive in Australia by factory-backed convers

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