> Anyway, why not under certain circumstances?
Because someone with no military experience is inexpert. They don't know what they're doing.
In the military a lack of expertise is very likely to result in people dying unnecessarily.
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Because someone with no military experience is inexpert. They don't know what they're doing.
In the military a lack of expertise is very likely to result in people dying unnecessarily.
And the military doesn't run the government. That's also a good thing.
The only way your analogy works is if you think it's a good idea to appoint generals and admirals who have no military experience. I hope you don't.
Putting inexpert people in positions of authority is guaranteed to damage a business, as Boeing is now finding out.
You need a CEO who actually understands the business. If your business is building planes and your CEO has never built a plane, then your business will inevitably have problems because the CEO fundamentally doesn't understand the business.
It won't happen immediately but a slow rot will set in. The CEO won't pay attention to the details because he never understood the details in the first place.
Optus recently had a major network outage. Part of the reason why that happened is they picked a CEO with no telecommunications background. She fundamentally didn't understand the business she was in:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/07/tech/australia-optus-netw...
She's since quit as Optus CEO in an "I don't want to fix my own mess" move. She doesn't seem to have paid that much attention to Optus anyway:
https://www.afr.com/rear-window/optus-a-part-time-gig-for-ce...
Europe did it better.
The chargers will be CCS with Tesla's plug on the end. It's CCS type 3.
It's taken a decade and it will be years more of fiddling around switching plugs and inlets. Europe standardized on CCS type 2 Combo in 2014.
Europe is deploying 400 kW public chargers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR2M5W6saAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ZWN_-a2j4
North America is still trying to work out how to plug in.
And to finally agree on a charging standard and to guarantee that all brands of charger will charge all brands of EV on that standard.
It is profoundly stupid to not agree on a charging standard. North America is now slowly standardizing on CCS with Tesla's plug on the end.
It is profoundly stupid to tolerate charging infrastructure which only charges one brand. You can fuel your ICE vehicle at any fuel station and you should be able to charge your EV at any charging station. Anything less than that is substandard, backward, and primitive.
Europe is so much further ahead of North America on EV infrastructure because Europe standardized on CCS type 2 Combo. Having a common standard has driven the investment into and the development of charging networks.
Europe has almost, but not totally, stamped out brand exclusive chargers. The remaining brand exclusive chargers need to be opened to all EVs.
> So while we’re waiting for that “convenient charging network” to appear, what should we do?
Emulate Europe. They're leading on this.
Here's the European charging infrastructure plan for the rest of the decade:
https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/f...
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Free Pascal compiles to Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, BSD, DOS , OS/2, AIX, Android, Haiku, Nintendo GBA/DS/Wii, AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, Atari TOS, and embedded platforms:
So why not also enjoy the convenience of only paying for what you actually use?
No, NACS is CCS with Tesla's plug on the end. All that's happened is that the plug has been standardized as CCS type 3 (aka J3400).
Some older Tesla's don't support CCS and need a CCS retrofit before they'll work with CCS chargers (including ones with Tesla's plug).
It's because lying is part of the company culture at Tesla. Musk and Tesla lie as a matter of course.
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Bitmovin can do 4K video on demand at 2 Mbps with AV1:
https://bitmovin.com/per-title-encoding-savings
Live, low latency video can't achieve the same because it can't use all the encoder tools due to time constraints.
But Cisco was doing 1080p30 video calls with AV1 five years ago:
https://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/cisco-leap-frogs-h-264...
They said they were surprised at the number of encoder tools they could make use of in AV1 for live video and that it's all about making smart choices in your encoder for your particular use case.
Live streaming games at 4Kp60 with AV1 can be done at 6 to 10 Mbps:
https://insider-gaming.com/how-av1-encoding-is-bringing-stre...
So for distribution with AV1 you'll get significant bit rate savings and you won't need anything like 100 Mbps for 8K.
Tesla always exaggerates the EPA range of their cars because they use the most generous test possible. Some manufacturers (like Porsche) underreport the range of their cars:
https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/
Porsche uses the worst case settings.
Yes. Nio's cars can both charge and swap the battery. They can swap between 75 kWh, 100 kWh, and 150 kWh packs, all of which have the same physical dimensions. The 150 kWh pack is a new semi-solid state battery chemistry and only adds an extra 20 kilos of weight versus the 100 kWh pack:
https://carnewschina.com/2023/12/17/nio-et7-with-150-kwh-sem...
Strange. I didn't think about you at all.
> tell me more about how bad Elon is.
Okay.
He doesn't pay the rent he owes:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/24/twitter-s...
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/twitter-is-being-evicted-f...
He doesn't pay the severance he owes:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/17/tech/ghana-twitter-layoff...
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66183954
Musk is an attention seeking narcissist, a serial liar, and a deadbeat.
He's a grub.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmWL1hZQmD0
You can buy the battery outright (in which case you don't use the swap stations) or you can use a battery subscription to swap to a new battery as needed.
Nio has three battery sizes: 75 kWh, 100 kWh, and soon a 150 kWh option. All in the same physical dimensions:
https://carnewschina.com/2023/12/17/nio-et7-with-150-kwh-sem...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJ2KtzMeh8
Alpitronic and Kempower make the best chargers at the moment. They both have 400 kW units in the field:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/coconut-crab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab
Coconut crabs can climb trees and hunt birds.
> our principles have been the same since the beginning
Tesla's principle is to lie routinely.
Tesla lies continuously about full self-driving: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
Tesla stages full self-driving videos: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-sel...
Tesla lies about things as dumb as quarter mile runs: https://insideevs.com/news/699260/tesla-cybertruck-porsche-r...
When lying is so much a part of the company culture, a post to Twitter which essentially says "Trust us, bro" is not very compelling.
You're letting Tesla make a fool of you. There's no value in that.
To repeat: More than one engineer made a point of saying the issue had nothing to do with damage caused by customers.
https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/malvertising
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
Even the FBI recommends ad blockers:
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
So if you're concerned about security then you want the browser with the best ad blocker.
uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Your Beliefs don't matter.
To quote the Reuters article yet again:
> The control-arm problem continued for years, across Tesla’s model lineup. The automaker replaced front upper control arms on about 120,000 cars globally from January 2021 through March 2022, according to a Reuters analysis of repair records included in the Tesla documents. Most of the replacements came on the Model 3, Tesla’s least expensive vehicle. Many of the customer complaints were for noise.
And:
> Former service managers and technicians in Norway, the country with the most Teslas per capita, said in interviews that they were inundated with angry customers complaining of early control-arm failures. They said that tension increased as the automaker, starting in 2017, told service employees to push the cost of the frequent and repeated failures onto customers to cut warranty and goodwill repair costs.
One manager said he was forced out after resisting the company’s push to blame customers for the failures of faulty control arms. “I said: ‘Now, we have to quit talking bullshit,’” he recalled. A service technician said he started in 2018 and quit a year later over the issue. “I wasn’t doing anything else than just constantly changing those control arms,” he said.
And on half shaft failures:
> One repair analysis showed the company replaced nearly 66,000 half shafts between January 2021 and March 2022. Customers paid for about 10% of those repairs.
> More than one engineer made a point of saying the issue had nothing to do with damage caused by customers. Engineer Anastasia Skolariki, who was troubleshooting repair problems and customer complaints for Tesla in Europe, wrote in May 2020 to other engineers and technicians that the problem was a design issue “and not abusive behavior from the customer side.” The company needed to cover repairs for cars under warranty, she said, “no matter how many times the vehicle comes to Service with the same issue.”
And here's an exciting half shaft failure:
> In 2019, a Tesla engineer in Shanghai flagged a failure on a brand-new Model S with 160 kilometers (99 miles) on it. The car’s rear left half shaft had broken into three pieces when the owner stepped on the accelerator; one of the pieces pierced the electric-drive unit that powers the car.
You should have a proper read of the Reuters article:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...
You're clearly not taking it in.
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