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IIRC A large portion of the carbon created by a car is during the manufacture, so if you're not forging a prop shaft and machining a gearbox, is it acceptable to reduce engine efficiency by some measure? Especially given the engine won't run all the time, just when the battery drop to some margin the car feels it should start charging.
Potentially (theorising here) Your EV will last longer before getting crushed into a cube, as it can compensate for battery degradation, your engine will last longer as it will have a fairly stable usage load (revs etc) and won't be used much
i.e. the petrol engine effectively just runs a generator to the batteries. You don't need prop shafts/gearboxes/transfer case/axles/alternator/starter etc.
If you can integrate the motor assembly into the wheel hub you don't need any kind of axle at all.
If/when the batteries degrade and lose capacity, you can just rely on the engine more.
The engine won't ever have to 'work' too hard, because when you accelerate hard the energy dump can just come from the battery reserve. Like it could just idle along at a more-or-less fixed rpm.
They are actually now directly govt owned as of 2020, with future investment for a new heavy forge.
An alternative to this strategy might be to have your own software team that builds tools and processes for you to "work with" or "work around" your primary software without fully replacing it.
As others have mentioned, what you want is achievable, if managed the right way, with the migration done in stages.( Trying to replace the whole thing in one jump would be very risky.)
In the real world though its quite easy to miss requirements, some quirk of the existing software nobody really thinks is a feature, except that one person in the office who has gotten used to abusing that quirk to achieve a task.
There is also possibly a lot of domain knowledge that the software team you hire might not be versed in, which can be tricky, although this is partially solved by having a good project lead and strong communication between the teams (software and non-software)
Where is might get more tricky is if you to adhere to certain ISO/etc certifications.
There is a popular guide for downgrading to v8 somewhere online as that is/was one of the more stable versions of the OS.
i3 is a very widely used tiling manager on linux
All the site prep work, concrete, electrical grid connections, steam generators, water etc is in one place.
Yep - There is on-going work to get good mobile support on the web app too!
I wish they would do a cheaper tier without all these additional 'benefits' (Video, Music, Twitch etc), but I suspect the reality is that its sort of a loss leader even without those benefits.