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byGuy Smiley
r 12, 2025 @01:26PM
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Attached to: China's EV Market Is Imploding
That is one reason why Tesla is so popular. It has the best charging network around, and all the other manufacturers in North America are jumping on that bandwagon as well.
You just plug in and charge. No card, no app needed.
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byGuy Smiley
06, 2025 @02:58AM
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Attached to: Universe Expansion May Be Slowing, Not Accelerating, Study Suggests
So dark energy is invented to correct for some discrepancies in observation and theory, but not it is shrinking and might become negative? Seems like a swag based on a swag.
Recent research suggests that "dark energy" isn't needed to balance the physics because in fact there is a huge amount of actual dark matter in the universe. Not some unknown particle, but just regular matter that is cold and hard to observe between galaxies.
https://www.science.org/conten...
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byGuy Smiley
r 06, 2024 @02:18PM
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Attached to: Detroit Is Turning Lampposts Into Internet-Connected EV Chargers
If they are smart, the chargers will just have the plug and not the cable, and it will be up to the EV owner to supply their own cable.
That avoids the high risk and cost of replacing stolen/cut cables, and reduces the cost of installing each unit to begin with.
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byGuy Smiley
12, 2024 @10:56AM
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Attached to: 'Running Clang in the Browser Using WebAssembly'
Then the virus can be shared in (obfuscated) source code, maybe with randomly generated variable and function names to avoid detection, and it will compile and install natively in every target platform.
"It's a victory for crypto botnets everywhere", stated an unnamed Russian source.
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byGuy Smiley
02, 2024 @03:17PM
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Attached to: Green Energy from Storage Batteries are Replacing Fossil Fuels in California - and Texas
My 9-year-old Sunnyboy SMA3000 and SMA4000 inverters can each run a 1500W 120V plug if the grid is down. It isn't automatic (I need to turn off the power main and turn on the inverter), but it would be useful in an emergency to power my freezer and water pump if the power is out.
Having a PowerWall or two would be more convenient, but we don't have enough blackouts or any time-of-use pricing for this to be worthwhile yet.
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byGuy Smiley
2024 @12:28AM
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Attached to: The 'Ceph' Community Now Stores 1,000 Petabytes in Its Open Source Storage Solution
There are single Lustre filesystems that are 700PB in size...
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byGuy Smiley
2024 @10:58AM
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Attached to: California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 30 Days
There are already industrial-scale battery recycling plants in the US, because the metal in those batteries is valuable, and extracting it is more efficient than mining it new:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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byGuy Smiley
2024 @12:22PM
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Attached to: New Pollution Rules Aim To Lift Sales of Electric Trucks
There are lots of trucks doing short-haul deliveries that can get by without a huge battery.
Truck drivers also have legal maximums to the number of hours they can drive in a day. Stopping for an hour in the middle of the day to recharge the batteries and eat lunch doesn't impact the total distance a truck can travel in a day.
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byGuy Smiley
2024 @02:07AM
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Attached to: More than a Third of America's EVs Were Bought Within the Last 12 Months
One of the issues with the Leaf is that the battery packs don't have active cooling like most modern EVs, so they degrade a lot faster than a Tesla with coolant in the battery to maintain the temperature (not too hot or cold). Partly that was for cost reduction, but partly it was also because the Leaf was one of the first mass market EVs and a lot has been learned since it was designed.
So yes, Leaf resale values are not great, but they shouldn't be held up as how all EV market resale values will be in the future.
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byGuy Smiley
30, 2023 @10:42PM
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Attached to: How Electric Cars are Already Upending America
Gas cars catch fire far more often than EVs, even compensating for prevalence in the marketplace, according to industry statistics:
https://www.autoinsuranceez.co...
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byGuy Smiley
r 22, 2023 @11:30AM
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Attached to: Aftershocks Can Occur Centuries After Original Earthquake, Says Study
What is the difference between an "aftershock" and just a smaller "earthquake" on the same fault line? Clearly there will be some ongoing "settling" action on a fault line after a huge quake, but to say that seismic events 100 years later are "aftershocks" of the original event and not just events themselves is belittling the destructive efforts of fault lines across the planet. They deserve recognition on their own and not be overshadowed by seismic events of the previous generation.
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byGuy Smiley
2023 @12:54AM
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Attached to: People Send 20 Billion Pounds of 'Invisible' E-Waste To Landfills Each Year
In other news, the excessive recycling of stories on Slashdot continued unabated, with billions of clicks wasted each year when the editors didn't care enough to read their own website and filter out duplicates.
One longtime Slashdot reader even went so far as to write a self-referential tragi-comic comment in the vain attempt to reduce such events, with the full knowledge that this too would be doomed to failure.
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byGuy Smiley
05, 2023 @01:35AM
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Attached to: Kidnapped By a Runaway Electric Car
If this has been a Tesla, they would have shouted that right at the beginning of the headline "Tesla Endangers Millions of Lives" or similar, but the make is barely mentioned in this article. Just sayin'...
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byGuy Smiley
2023 @04:03PM
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Attached to: Seven Major Automakers Plan 30,000 More High-Speed Chargers in North America by 2030
One of the main reasons that Tesla is dominating the EV market is that EVs are not an afterthought for them, like all of the big ICE manufacturers that were dragged kicking and screaming to the table.
Tesla had 10 years to ramp up their EV/battery design and roll out the supercharging network, before the Big 3 even thought about it.
Now that they are trying to ramp EV sales they realize they need chargers or customers won't buy. Tesla has chargers all over NA, and all the ICE latecomers have their balls in a vise because they cars need to use NACS (Tesla) chargers to be able to sell, but also know this will just entrench Tesla more and allow them to expand their charging lead even further.
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byGuy Smiley
023 @10:11PM
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Attached to: Torvalds Calls For Calm as Bcachefs Filesystem Doesn't Make Linux 6.5
LOL. We run at least hundreds (if not thousands) of ext4 filesystems that are 1 PB or larger. If bcachefs is struggling with 50TB today, it has some pretty serious design and/or implementation issues.
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