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These funny shaped containers are the normal things that industrial powdered materials are displayed in tradeshows / showrooms, if you goto a plastics moulding expo in china there are probably >500,000 of these things on display with all sorts of different grades of plastic granules in them

> Also, while we’re on the subject, can we talk for a second about how completely unnecessary a 900-mile EV is? Why not use a battery a third of the size to give us something much more affordable with a still-useful 300-mile range?

I guess the headline they went with is catchier, but this is the real lede. Don't give me a 900-mile battery, give me a 250-mile battery that weighs and costs 1/4 as much. 900 miles is 12 hours of non-stop driving at highway speeds. I can't even conceive why anybody would want a personal car that does that. (Long-haul buses with bathrooms onboard and the ability to seamlessly switch drivers would be great, though trains would be greater still.)

If that 250 mile battery maintained it's range for years and did so even in harsh conditions like cold weather and at normal highway speeds then it might be enough, but in reality all those things will wipe a good chunk of battery capacity away and those 250 mile range EVs will easily become 100 mile range in the real world.

See I'm not so sure. How common do you think they are that someone should have recognized it? Do you see it in popular mainstream media, do you see it as a daily object, or it is something a smaller subset of the population would recognise?

This could turn into one of the all time great promotional campaigns.

Oh, I thought the top photo was a joke photo. That’s the real deal. It’s so clearly a butt plug that there is no way they didn’t know.

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