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TheObviousSolution

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  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • The irony being that I actually face my challenges and you see insurmountable obstacles where there are none in defense of the worst aspects of the industry. But at least you are making your position much more evident, you just want to discourage EVs as a niche product that only works in urban environments that doesn't work in rural or when the temperatures drop below freezing, and seem to be quite hostile to premises that could easily change and disprove that notion. Why, ego or something else, I wonder.

    Don't worry, my idea clearly isn't meant for people like you, so don't worry your pretty little head off.

  • EU voting on chat control today: Will messenger services be blocked in Europe?

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  • So much care about private chats, so little care about legislating shadow moderation and troll factories.

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • So something a swappable and universal battery design would solve that would allow lithium to be phased out by sodium batteries and would allow the usage of only the amount of batteries you'd actually need. So why are you against that as well? Or just BEVs in general?

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • Nice straw man, and a powerfully ignorant one too, given how many EVs it would ignore the existence of simply because they would not fulfill your criteria.

    Oh, and I was kidding, no way in hell would I ever give such an antagonist such a leg up, pearls before swine and all, you've made your choice and the industry is quite happy to cater to it.

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • You mean for your highly specialized need that the majority of potential EV drivers currently turned off by the step costs don't need? Sure, let me just make a note, since the solution is scalable, even working in the energy demand of a heater.

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • The problem is that in those cases it is still a proprietary market.

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • So, just so you know, you can purchase 96V batteries that weigh less than 30 kg and can be connected in series to provide well over 400V, and if you want more range you can install bigger ones. EV ones weight that much because of the range, which is less of a factor if they can be swapped. They are made up of cells which are individually far below 400v, and there are standardized Anderson connectors that can safely connect and disconnect +600V and are used all the time. The cost of a battery is a non-factor is you are just renting them like you are sort of expected to do with butane tanks. 50V is the limit where you usually begin receiving a shock at, but 400V is not really considered high voltage and can be easily handled with the proper connectors and failsafes, like not swapping with a load.

    It's better than letting the general public fry themselves trying to fuel their cars with an ignitable combustible.You are not dealing with rubbing alcohol. /wildscaremongering

    Battery technology is something I'm constantly swapping out for myself with ease, but that's because I don't make my own mental blocks. So do owners who retrofit gas cars to EVs. My goal is to retrofit an older EV car so that I don't have to pay around $5000 to $15000 of overpriced proprietary batteries. It is a long-term goal, but be happy, it is not one that could be shared because the only way to do so would be in a society open to it.

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • Battery replacements really are not difficult, I'd seriously recommend not imagining obstacles where there are not.

    Without special installations, charging takes several hours instead of a quicker battery swap (which you could take with you as extra weight). DC chargers cannot even be installed at how home due to their requirement. Swappable batteries are possible and would make EV cars adaptable to new and different battery technology, they are just not designed that way.

    Some, like the XBus, talked about allowing it, and it is perfectly possible, it just isn't going to come out of traditional car manufacturers who had to be dragged to develop anything EV or manufacturers like Tesla who want to make range a subscription feature. Let's not even go into EV range extension trailer systems, which would be as effortless as swapping trailers.

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • You can get them at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=gas+tank

    You aren't making a point if you are trying to equate the distribution network for gas, which is so ubiquitous that there is no need for the sort of trucks that distribute butane tanks to EV batteries, which require specialized facilities for fast charging, which also deteriorates batteries faster, or otherwise take half a day of charging. EV battery swapping bans already exist for things like scooter rentals.

    There are already standarized sizes, voltages, and ports using in autocaravans which could be connected in series ideally through BMS to provide the voltages EV cars would need and would even be simpler through already prepped trailer systems. Four 96V batteries (can go up to six) in series connected safely through Andersen connectors would be enough for a basic EV car, that's less than 30kg LiFePO4 each, making it swappable on the spot, less dangerous than lithium, and open to a large market of providers.

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • Over the longterm, and they also require a lot less maintenance because they don't have to deal with mini-explosions from combustion generating excess heat and stress. The problem is in the battery, and the industry hasn't even scratched the surface for solutions.

    I see trucks carrying butane tanks all the time, where are the trucks carrying EV battery replacements? There aren't because the industry wants to charge extra for fixed installation ones depending on capacity and charging capacity and there is absolutely no profit incentive that offsets other losses to standardize battery systems in a way they can be easily extensible or replaceable.

  • Your Worst Fear

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  • He didn't lie, he turned into existential dread.

  • Japanese warplanes use flares to warn a Russian spy plane to leave airspace

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  • At this rate, we need to be making flare bombs and artillery and retrofitting long range naval ships with ramming hulls. It's getting a bit absurd.

  • Lebanon says at least 274 killed as Israel bombards south

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  • Grandma who can't move on her own and doesn't hear very well: What?

  • I mean, let's not underestimate social phobias, but...

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  • The amount of energy and resources that it would take to have so many non-aerodynamic non-lighter-than-air flying cars, not so much.

  • Israeli diaspora minister says Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not a real countries.

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  • The eventual outcome of the slippery slope that comes from justifying colonial interests that were legitimized in cooperation with the Nazis under the Haavara Agreement under the vise of religion.

  • 7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem

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  • I like how we've gone from looking at the huge garbage patches in our oceans to the amount of microplastic in a drop of water. I don't see it as a material issue, you pick a material and with enough quantity it will pollute. It is a consumer society issue. But maybe it will be easier to change consumer society by dangling the microplastic threat effect so the actual cause can be treated - wait, the psychopaths in CEO positions would lose money then, never mind.

  • Mark Robinson, endorsed by Trump for Governor of North Carolina, called himself a “black Nazi,” endorsed slavery, and described spying on women in public showers in porn forum comments: report

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  • This is what they are referencing: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html

    Judging by what they are saying, CNN KFile investigation bases their investigation mostly on "Robinson used ‘minisoldr’ all over the internet". They also claimed to have linked his email, which is slightly sus given that I doubt porn websites are into the habit of making them public. I tried to go over to the one they mentioned and no, it does not scream security, there are BBS better looking than that website, at least their login.

    What seems to have motivated the investigation is that:

    CNN’s reporting on Robinson’s comments comes a few weeks after The Assembly, a North Carolina digital publication, reported that Robinson frequented local video pornography shops in the 1990s and 2000s. The story cited six people who interacted and saw him frequent the stores in Greensboro, North Carolina. A spokesperson for Robinson called the story false and a “complete fiction.”

    So I wouldn't be surprised if it's true, and I doubt CNN wouldn't be making those claims if they could be easily disprove as outright lies.

  • Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it.

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  • It probably depends on your account. If they don't think you are trying to game their system and you are a deep pocket consumer, they probably won't put up too much of a fight, they'd rather keep you hooked.

  • Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it.

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  • Wait, so you got charged a year later after returning it? They only issue refunds when it has been sent back, so they are charging you for their own inventory mismanagement, or worse.