yeah, the “s” in the title is doing some heavy lifting

The opposite headline sounds just as bad: Submarine Fails To Sink

The battery’s chemistry isn’t important to the end user. Price, capacity, longevity, and charge time is. If we assume CATL inflates their stats by the amount that’s standard for their market, we can infer their new battery is almost as good as Tesla’s old battery in terms of mechanical utility to the end user - their only hope of competing is to win big on price.

I hope they can win that competition. I’d love to see GM produce an EV that’s almost as good as a Tesla and a lot cheaper.

Avoiding GM and using the most current tech are both bad ideas, for the same reason: Tesla is owned by a horrible person.

After subtracting the expected quantity of deception in Chinese advertising, this new battery tech from China is still not as good as what Tesla has already been making for the last several years.

Wait a minute, companies that run charging stations now want local businesses to pay them for the privilege of installing one of their chargers? Instead of the company selling the recharging to EV owners paying the local business rent for use of their real estate?

Right? Venus, Earth, and Mars should all be pretty similar. Mercury should be about the size of the moon or a little bigger. Jupiter doesn’t need to be fuck off huge, but at least a bit bigger than Saturn.

the inaccurate scale of the planets tho…

I’ve read that a shaped charge’s armor piercing jet of plasma has a fairly long reach. A direct hit with the plasma spear directed toward the center of the vehicle would probably still pierce the vehicle. However, a cage like that might provide protection from a glancing blow, where the plasma jet is not directed toward the center of mass - like, instead of getting a hole through the corner of the roof, the jet misses entirely.

Choke Hold - Idris Elba - From Cyberpunk 2077

Indeed.
That villain once said to me, “Nice to see you,” when I am, in fact, a hideously disfigured mockery of life itself.
You just can’t trust the Kindred these days.

þ looks like a 🅱️

“Þa þeofian, scandalwisan mædena syndon smeaþe and wyrcean” just doesn’t hit a modern audience the same way

the horror . . . the horror

Maybe they have a different log in for when they’ve changed into a black cat? Like, maybe there’s no capital letters in their fursona’s password, because its hard to use the Shift key when you have beans instead of fingers?

imagine thinking liberal capitalists are “the left”, lol

Takes too long to charge. The Seagull EV’s “fast” charge from 20% to 80% takes ~40 minutes and gives ~100 miles of range. The Model 3’s ~20 minute fast charge for ~150 miles was already pushing the outer limit of reasonable.

Still, the price is right to make it a household’s second car.

Buyer: I want a small, light weight, reliable vehicle with no frills or excess features, that will get me from point A to point B.

Automotive industry PR: So what you’re saying is that you want bells and whistles? Why don’t you buy radar in the bumper, a distracting touch screen that can’t be used while going over bumps or around corners instead of buttons, heated seats that don’t work without a subscription, heating elements in the steering wheel that occasionally burn you and set your car on fire, heavy sunroofs that leak, heavy electric motors to adjust your seats, heavy electric motors to roll the windows, heavy electric motors in the steering column that will fight you for control of the vehicle, a video game console for a speedometer, more cameras than a paparazzi, and expensive self-driving software the does not work yet but we totally promise that it will Soon™. Also, it will not get you from point A to point B.

Automotive industry when sales are disappointing:
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stick_in_bike_wheel.jpg: “Fucking China!”

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