Its not defensiveness it's just recognizing the issue for what it really is. You can change the estimation calculation all you want, but it will always be wrong because the variables being used don't blend together well. You can make gas engines that get 100MPG or even 1000MPG but it won't make for an accurate estimation when averaged out with ∞MPG or 0GPM.
internal combustion engines are being used more frequently than estimated
That's a problem with the estimation not with the manufacturers. The manufacturers tell you exactly what the electric range is and also what the ICE fuel economy is. It's trivial to apply these values to your driving habits to get an estimation for your use case.
As an example, I've been eyeballing the Prius PHEV with its 44 mile range (and 47MPG hwy). My commute is about 45 miles each way and I have access to chargers at work, so my daily fuel consumption would either be 0.04 gallons (charge at home and work) or 1 gallon (charge at home only) giving a 2400% variation in fuel economy for the exact same trip based solely off my actions alone, having absolutely nothing to do with the car itself.
should it not be addressed? Should we not be aiming for higher efficiency in these vehicles?
Here you're conflating two separate issues and highlighting exactly why people are calling this misleading. You can change the calculation all you want but that isn't changing the efficiency of these vehicles and this study doesn't demonstrate that these vehicles are inefficient. All it shows is "your MPGe or l/100km is greatly effected by how often you stay on electric power" and that factor is solely dependent on the driver and ranges from near zero to infinity regardless of the vehicle chosen.
If tests aren't accurately predicting usage, should we not develop more accurate tests?
It doesn't get more accurate. We should just scrap the combined "MPGe" (and EU equivalent) and stick with "electric range" and "MPG". Both of those can be fairly accurately predicted as separate values. How they combine is entirely up to the individual.
I'd wager that he's just an opportunist and wants to make his "brand" friendly to neo Nazis while not alienating the "pro Israeli fascism" segment of the population that other media personalities cater to.
He plays the foil to the right-wing "Israel can do no wrong" crowd but likely isn't actually that critical of the Israeli government like someone to the left of Democrats would be.
I can't believe the ratio of your comment. Are people really taking Tucker Carlson's word at face value and feeling sympathy for him? The Israeli government is a piece of shit and so is Carlson, and yet people are wanting to "take sides" here.
Edit: oh I see you're also taking sides, but it's the "Israeli government" side.
It's not even that, it's the abomination of combining electric and gas "efficiency" into a single unit. That number is always going to be trash when one of those variables represents zero fuel usage and other represents pure fuel usage. In the US, the "MPGe" rating suffers from the same exact issue.
Also, the Porsche one makes total sense. The car is going to burn through battery charge and then hit the gas engine faster when, as expected, Porsche drivers drive them like a Porsche.
It really is insane. They only rate the range for 29 miles and then get 22-29MPG and make something like 540HP. I wonder (but didn't bother looking up) if their design allows the electric motor to boost the power of the gas engine rather than boost fuel economy in which case you're talking about smiles per gallon not miles per gallon.
Its misleading because they're pushing this like it's Dieselgate when in reality it's just that the "MPGe" rating (and metric equivalent) is just a dumb fucking estimation. Porsche states that you get 29 miles electric range at most and then everything else is 22-29 MPG. That's how PHEVs should be quantified.
Imagine a Porsche owner driving 20 miles to work, charging, and then driving 20 miles back home. How much fuel was used?
Now imagine another Porsche owner driving the same 40 miles but in one trip. How much fuel was used?
How about a third Porsche owner driving 20 miles but flooring it after every stop light in cold weather, not charging, and then driving 20 miles back home. How much fuel there?
These would all give wildly different results which is why any combined estimation will be wrong regardless of the method. Same goes for ICE vehicles but to a lesser extent since they're always burning fuel. Combined city/highway is going to be different if that ratio is 90/10 versus 10/90. Its going to be different based on weather, driving style, number of passengers, etc. The whole point of this is to simply compare vehicle efficiencies in an apples to apples way not perfectly predict what you'll actually experience driving the car.
It's not two entirely separate powertrains though, it's usually just an engine paired to a hybrid motor/transmission combo and they've been on the roads for decades, so it's easy to see what their typical repair costs are. A Prius can take you hundreds of thousands of miles with negligible repair costs.
I've thought about doing this too. You would have the button trigger some identifier like a phone notification, screen, or even a light and then reset itself after so many hours or at scheduled times to know if they've been fed.
We have to give our cat a pill in the morning and evening so it would help us know if the other (or someone else like a relative babysitting) had already given it to him in addition to the feeding schedule.
They're not releasing the list of vulnerabilities each month but instead doing it quarterly, so how are custom ROM devs supposed to patch vulnerabilities if google isn't reporting them to manufacturers and developers like they've done for over a decade now?
I thought certain types of steroids make you red like this along with giving you a swollen belly which goes along with all the anger and irrational behavior exhibited by these fools.
I'd definitely skip this in favor of something consumer-grade. You can find used Dell Optiplexes all over the place cheap and stick a large drive inside/outside of it and use it for a couple of years.
A big old server is just going to drain your wallet on both power and parts with equal or worse performance and a lot more complexity for what 99% of home users will use it for.
It sounds like your main goal is probably a media server and an Optiplex will give you an i5 or i7 with QuickSync which works excellent for processing video. RAID isnt really necessary here because you can just download more Linux ISOs if these one are lost, though it can be great later if you buy a bunch more drives and expand into other areas where data is less replaceable.
Can't say on access behind CG-NAT, as I haven't ever dealt with it, but Tailscale might work as a free third-party option though that's just a guess.
Prolonged wars in the middle east aren't popular either as we only very recently ended two of them, but this administration has no imagination and is just copying what W Bush did.
I agree it has already been decided as we're seeing the very same manufactured consent in the media as we did before Iraq and Afghanistan, and Democrats are always willing to jump on board with whatever the Republicans want, so there isn't really anyone around to stop it from happening.
And in a rigidly defined digital medium no less!