What, after pissing thru 1,000 KM of continuous driving (651 miles), why would I want to spend more than, say, 7 minutes outside the car before driving another 1,000 KM (651 Mi)?

When I drive my ICE vehicle it PAINS me to stop every 500 miles to refill my 30 gallon gas tank! I don't have time to just stand around after 8 hours of driving!

LOL

Teslas have a navigation app that tells you how many open chargers there are at all nearby Tesla supercharging stations, that they blindly just showed-up hoping for an open charger is something they chose to do, they could have just used the app.

"This thing" is two different things - one is a high-capacity, light-weight "thing," the other is a quick-charging "thing."

They are describing two different battery technologies, each optimized for a different application...

But, of course, it's NOT TRUE. They are describing two different battery technologies:

1) one technology that can charge very, very quickly (10%-98% in 7 minutes!), with no mention of capacity, and

2) a different technology that weighs less than other battery technologies for a given capacity that can run an EV up to 1,000 KM, with no mention of charge time.

That makes no sense - we don't know the capacity of the fast-charge battery, and we don't know the charge time of the long-range battery. And the cost of the battery pack is a huge part of most EV pricing, putting two full-capacity but different battery technologies in one car would adds thousands and thousands to the sales price and would push vehicle weight to new, unbelievable, heights.

Putting two batteries in an EV makes as much sense as putting both a diesel and a gasoline engine in a vehicle, because 'one's good for long-haul driving', the other runs on cheaper gasoline and better for 'start-stop' driving in, say, a city-setting.

Well, it's either AI 'slop' or a horrible translation from Chinese...

So they've been mis-handling drone-delivered packages for 18 months now in several states, and only now we're hearing about the 'horrors' of an item in a plastic bottle breaking on 'drop-off'? If this were as big an issue as the submitter and editor want us to believe it is, why did it take so long to be reported on?

I suspect this has been much more successful than this article would lead you to believe.

(I expect a lot of the deliveries might be books, which aren't likely to suffer so much from a 10 foot drop...)

A nonsensical, impossible claim - do you really claim the flash memory in the car stores *every* waypoint the car ever travels? It makes no sense, the data retained would be enormous. The linked to article shows four or five data points per second, extrapolate that over the life of the vehicle and you quickly realize it's impossible.

I think what the system retains are what it considers "important" datapoints, like impacts, when warnings are made to the driver, and when errors are detected. It also makes sense the computer might store the last so-many hours of location information, but that's it.

Presumably the crash the "discovered" was the final event that caused the EV to wind up in the junkyard in Poland.

Are really going to start yelling about 'big brother' because on-board GPS systems retain previous locations?

To keep more domestic crude in the U.S. would require re-configuring domestic oil refineries, as it currently stands we lack sufficient refinery capacity to process a lot of domestic crude.

Shifting demand, not 'more'

Back in the 80s my house in New Jersey had a box on the air conditioner that would allow the electric company to turn it off for up to an hour at their discretion to lower the power demand in our area. They paid my parents a small stipend' each month they let the utility control their A/C, it took more than an hour for a cooled house to warm up, we never noticed if/when it went off.

This is not the first time electric companies tried to manage peak loads ("balance the grid").

You missed the lower price/free electricity off-peak part didn't you...

I have an EV and an ICE truck.

Gas is $3.60/gallon, truck gets 18 miles/gallon, so $0.20/mile.

I charge my EV at Tesla Superchargers, they are $0.36/KWhr, I get a reliable 3 miles per KWhr, so $0.13/mile.

IF I stay up late and hit the superchargers 'off-peak' I pay $0.18/KWhr, so $0.06/mile.

EV is cheaper, but not 'order of magnitude' cheaper.

Exactly, this is just a way to generate some 'heat' (interest) in their company...

They failed to gain market share by being 'open source' so now they want some free press on going 'closed source because AI'...

Yes, someone should definitely clone their product, keep their clone 'open source' and convince people to use the 'open source version' by creating enhanced features and providing free support, because they have nothing better to do than to go after a company that no one has ever heard of that is taking a product no one uses and making it closed source.

I don't think this was a community-built open source project, like, say, the Linux kernel, it was a proprietary product developed by paid developers who (for some reason) wanted to share their code base to please people like RMS...