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bySavage-Rabbit ( 308260 ) writes:
The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to block California from implementing plans to block new sales of gas-powered vehicles in a decade.
While this may seem like a victory for Oil and ICE it is really quite inconsequential. ICE tech is going away just like horse drawn carriages did, it may take a bit longer now but there is no stopping it despite heroic last stands like this one.
byKernel Kurtz ( 182424 ) writes:
ICE tech is going away just like horse drawn carriages did
Cars were a considerable improvement over horse drawn carriages. BEVs are not such an improvement over ICEVs. They are a tradeoff with some better and some worse properties. I expect them both to co-exist for a long, long time.
That said, I agree with you insofar as if most people find them better, then BEVs will replace ICEVs organically without any need for legislation or time limits, so I'm not seeing any big deal here either.
byfluffernutter ( 1411889 ) writes:
What positives do EVs have over ICEs besides being able to charge at home?
byCavemanKiwi ( 559158 ) writes:
- Smoother powertrain
- Faster acceleration
- Fewer parts
- Less noise pollution
- Less localized pollution
byjacks smirking reven ( 909048 ) writes:
- Lower center of gravity means improved handling
- Far less fluids to replace (gear oil, brake fluid and coolant are about it and those all last longer in an EV)
- More storage space
- Regenerative braking means less brake pad wear
byfluffernutter ( 1411889 ) writes:
- Lower center of gravity means improved handling: I'm not aware of EVs beating ICEs regularly at the Nuremberg ring.. Low center of gravity is good, yes, but weight in general is bad.
- Far less fluids to replace (gear oil, brake fluid and coolant are about it and those all last longer in an EV): I haven't had to do that with any fluid other than oil since 1992. For oil, the reminder comes on and you go to a quick oil change place. No big deal.
- More storage space: I haven't found one with as much as m
byChatHuant ( 801522 ) writes:
I'm not aware of EVs beating ICEs regularly at the Nuremberg ring
You probably mean Nurburgring, which is not in Nuremberg; it's in a different city named Nurburg (the first u is supposed to have an umlaut, but Slashdot doesn't do umlauts).
In any case, the fact you're not aware of any EV's beating ICEs only shows what you know. From here [autoexpress.co.uk]: the unrestricted record holder at Nurburgring is the Porsche 919 Evo, which is a hybrid car. The second fastest lap was done by a full-electric: a Nurburgring edition of Volkswagen's ID4.
The fastest production car was also a hybrid: a F1-engined Mercedes AMG.
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byangel'o'sphere ( 80593 ) writes:
/. Does Umlauts, if you use Windows and can type it as extended ASCII with the alt-Gr key.
"Normal" Umlauts are UTF16 /. mangels them into two "bytes"
byChatHuant ( 801522 ) writes:
Well, thanks for the tip!
Still, we're already a quarter into the 21st century and Slashdot still doesn't do Unicode; I'm starting to find it charmingly old-fashioned, like cassette tapes, vacuum tube TVs or the PDP-11.
byretchdog ( 1319261 ) writes:
You could relive the 90s and type out the longhand html entity as
ü
if you really want to, and /. will parse that (unless you put it in an ecode block as i did). Such convenience!
byangel'o'sphere ( 80593 ) writes:
Well, during Windows 95 times, you could simply type the Umlaut, as it was not Unicode at that time. I just use the alternative spelling, you can add an "e" behind the main vowel.
As in Ae, Oe Ue.
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