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angryrobots posted:TOU billing doesn't necessarily have anything to do with workplace charging? Residential TOU billing would create an incentive to charge off-peak, either by behavior changes and/or participating in smart charging systems (to be implemented). Specifically, it helps with scenario #2 in the posted article where EV adoption can continue without massive upgrades in distribution and more NG usage to accommodate bigger daily peaks. Best option is both, of course.
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MomJeans420 posted:The problem with workplace charging is it requires such a massive investment to your typical office building, and then I'm assuming they'll want to charge you for the power. But I'm not sure it's worth building the infrastructure to charge you for the power when your typical person wants to park there 8 or 10 hrs a day, then the charger isn't used the rest of the time.
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Yuns posted:As a rider, I'm not super enamored of EV motorcycles. The problem is that most motorcycles already have insane power to weight and the acceleration problems mostly have to do with keeping the front end down. An EVs torque benefit therefore isn't that great and the added weight of the battery and motors can make it less nimble and therefore overall slower in corners. So as I posted in cycle asylum, the more I think about it; the more I think that motorcycle EVs make the most sense from a cruiser/tourer perspective more than from a sportbike perspective. The heavy weight of cruisers/tourers wouldn't necessarily increase (and could decrease) with the right battery and motor choice and the extra torque would be great for moving along a big cruiser or Goldwing. Maybe cruisers wouldn't work given that even getting the cruiser guys to accept liquid cooling was challenging. But an EV Goldwing could be well received depending on range and refueling. I hope the Harley Davidson Livewire succeeds but at $29,799 it's a tough sell. it really needed to be cheaper than HD's top of range motorcycles.
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:I've never leased a car before, so hearing that I can come out ahead by borrowing a grocery getter from GM makes me doubt. They make you maintain auto insurance on it, and pay for that out of your own pocket, right? Do those costs make the whole thing actually cost money?
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Ola posted:To take a trip on this:
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Nfcknblvbl posted:It seems unlikely they'll make DCFC-capable ATVs and snowmobiles since Zero hasn't made any motorcycles capable of that yet. Also, not many DC chargers out in the woods. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Sep 29, 2020 |
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Elviscat posted:7.2kw is enough to charge your dirt bike while taking a break from the track/trails though... that'd be a hell of a setup. Charging a dirt bike while eating lunch would be too easy.
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Nostalgic Cashew posted:Yeah, I'm scratching my head on some of the things in this report. A private bike has ~10% of the pkm GHG emissions than an ICE car? What? for a device that has 1% the mass of an ICE car? Also it looks like the assumption is that the infrastructure cost is similar, which seems odd on the face of it. I'll need to read more closely.
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MomJeans420 posted:The main difference between the Hummer and the
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Indiana_Krom posted:Something I wonder about that Hummer EV, it would be interesting to see if someone could build one with similar acceleration figures but using a conventional combustion engine. 1000 HP combustion engines aren't common, but it isn't like there are none out there. How different would such a vehicle be, how much would it weigh, would it still fit inside a similar sized frame? Is this something that is only practical as an EV, or could they have made one using a conventional engine that ran on conventional fuel?
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PIZZA.BAT posted:Yeah it's what I've had my eye on as well and it still seems weird how little discussion it's generating I'm a Ford fanboy, and I still looked at it and went "meh". ilkhan fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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Bum the Sad posted:I read the actual article with details. Tesla scored higher on the functionality, they only scored GM higher because it nags you more and is thus "safer." Pretty loving dumb. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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mobby_6kl posted:I'm not mad about it since I was never going to buy it anyway. But they made a big deal of the 35k EV and are now doing the same with the 25k one so it's pretty funny.
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RZA Encryption posted:Here's a good read of a horrible time a Jalopnik writer had riding a LiveWire in California.
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Not the best method of charging, but an interesting video nevertheless. https://youtu.be/EEIN6-cVLRg
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Charles posted:How much do you pay to get the hybrid and then the 7.2kw package, though? LibCrusher posted:I wonder why they hybridized the 3.5 instead of the 2.7 ilkhan fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Shamino posted:It's so strange to me the legacy manufacturers (other than Chevy, and to a lesser extent Ford) are being dragged kicking and screaming into the EV era. I would think it they would be all about EVs since they're radically easier to manufacture.
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Most of those regulatory credits are just funding the expansion pace. Without them they could still be profitable and expand, but it wouldn't be as quick.
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Zero One posted:I'm imagining that the dealer wanted to sell you a regular Mustang.
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Indiana_Krom posted:Though the cybertruck then raises a lot of questions, but we are presuming it will have a significantly higher capacity pack (up to 200 kWh?) to push through the atmosphere.
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MomJeans420 posted:Charles has it right - A cybertruck may get built, THE cybertruck will not
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Shamino posted:Keep moving them goalposts.
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Standard range / RWD model Y is now on their site.
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gwrtheyrn posted:Wasn't this something they said they had cancelled?
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Ola posted:Speaking of gas, most places still have the old routine of pumping first and paying inside the station afterwards. A full tank of gas can be $100 and it's quite common that people run away from it. It has been for many decades. And yet, it's such a small problem overall that they haven't bothered inventing a system that could prevent it. So yeah, if you live in a good society, you can have good things. If you live in a wasteland of crime and vandalism, well, you probably have bigger problems than smooth user experiences anyway.
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stevewm posted:They will follow Tesla, but worse...
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MrYenko posted:Adaptive cruise is by far the more important tool, imo. Lane keeping is nice, but effective adaptive cruise is a game changer for commuting.
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The loss of the indicator and transmission stalks is downright baffling. The rest of the refresh seems damned nice. Did they confirm its the new cell size?
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If they expect to be able to go from point A to point B without human intervention it's going to be pretty good at picking a direction. Multi point turns are the only thing I can think of where it's not obvious. Maybe an empty parking lot when you could pick anything, but it'll default to forward. I'm sure it'll have gear position shown on the front screen, so it's not going to surprise you. The car already knows when you get in. Put foot on the brake and it picks a gear, put foot on accelerator and you're off. Simple enough. They also have millions of miles worth of data to do neural leaning against. I bet it's 99.9% accurate for 95% of drivers day 1 and will become 99.9% accurate for the remaining 5% of drivers with a month of training for your preference. Short version, you'll almost never interact with the touch screen anyway.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:99.9% is terrible for a car, given the number of actions a driver takes and Godholio not unresonably outlined.
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Westy543 posted:...I basically just browse SA by my bookmarks at this point. And I also don't think we need a split at this point.
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Malpenix Blonia posted:You should definitely take a rear-facing child seat with you when you go look at vehicles.
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People keep saying that the non-tesla networks in the US are catching up. But anytime I see an actual test they fail miserably. They may catch up some day, but they aren't there yet.
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Finger Prince posted:I'm probably an outlier case, but I can't imagine any scenarios that I'd want to travel more than 300km one way in a single day non-stop. Even when I fly to Calgary to ski, the farthest I'm going to drive is Golden or Fernie, which are both under 300km away. A trip that far will usually have an overnight stay, and even if not, would definitely have a stop on the way back for food. Maybe I have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a road trip is, and most people think it's about covering the most possible amount of distance in the least possible amount of time, but I don't think it's unreasonable or unfathomable to do a road trip in a non-tesla. The longest road trip I've done is Mukilteo to San Francisco via Eugene, Eureka, and Sonoma overnights, with side trips and meandering, and that was just over 1000 miles with no day greater than 300 miles (and even that one broken up with a stop in Portland). That was a road trip. Also could be done without supercharging. I've done 350km (total) round trips in the same day on, if not a lot of occasions than at least more than a few. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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So less range and about halfway between a performance and AWD-LR Model Y for 0-60?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:New Scientist has an article out today about self driving cars and researchers saying that pedestrians should wear sensors in order to not get mowed down by them. quote:says a team of researchers that has created a device to make people more visible to a vehicle’s artificial intelligence.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:Literally the only person saying that we are anywhere close to fully functional self driving cars owns a car company promoting their self driving tech, but you seem to believe that poo poo without concern for bias. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Waymo themselves have stated their cars can not do level 5 and they have problems with level 4 unless they are in a tightly controlled / mapped enviroment. Construction zones gently caress them. Snow / rain still confuse the cars. Full L5 (no steering wheel in the car) is a long long ways away. Full L4 (it just does there unused) is not. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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Nothing. It's still a perpetual 10 years away thing. Except for all the intermediate steps and features they add / have added along the way. They can mostly navigate parking lots, they can mostly navigate surface streets, they can mostly navigate freeways. There's a lot of glue to put those together seamlessly, and a lot of work to do on each section. But the individual parts are getting visible progress. Not perfection, but progress.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:It'd make a lot more sense for people to accept that they might need to rent a vehicle very occasionally in order to haul something bigger. Renting a trailer once every month or so, or maybe even an entire van to haul some big furniture, is a small expense and lets you drive a more reasonably sized vehicle the rest of the time. A lot people have done that math (explicitly or implicitly) and decided they'd rather have the truck in their driveway than rent. A lot of things are cheaper to rent once or twice a year, but people keep buying for reasons.
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The issue with city parking afaik is outlets, not necessarily breaker space.
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