Yes. If you’re in sub-Saharan Africa, an e-bike or EV moped plus a slightly larger-than-African-average domestic solar+BESS setup is a great path to independence. 80% of the world’s population lives in high insolation areas, and most of them are in the developing world.

Which part of “ The percentage of cars being driven 400 miles a day in the US is vanishingly small, and the percentage doing a 400 mile round-trip commute is even smaller.” was unclear to you? Does that sound like I’m only talking about averages, or does it sound like I’m directly addressing the OP’s weirdo talk? You really are a dumbass

On *top of that*, if someone really truly does commute huge distances each day, say 300 miles, then it is massively more convenient to get an EV and a home charger, because they remove the need for dozens of trips a year to the gas station. And of course their operating costs are going to be massively lower as well.

They may have reduced power, and produce less spill, but they certainly aren't dimmer in the coverage area. The lower spill of the LED street lights is mighty important given they emit a ton more blue light.

Roadside ad signage certainly isn't lower brightness. They're their own headlights now.

I'd like to agree but what would happen if it was diffuse? The drivers would then demand 10x, 100x, 1000x more power to light everything up like daylight. Then the whole front of the vehicle becomes a massive dazzle.

I think the problem is too much spill from the focused zone, and poorly set dip height. Particularly on the taller vehicles like SUVs.

I've heard that newer cars even allow the driver to adjust dip height while driving. That's a recipe for upping the anti, imho.

The NSA takes it badly when their people are identified, let alone charged.

Fission had its day, a long time ago.

Norway is not in a class of its own. It was, but it's not any longer. Denmark is now in the same class. And the next class is catching up pretty fast: Sweden, Iceland, Nepal, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Finland.

The 2CV looks really good. Fingers crossed the production car keeps most of the look, as Renault managed with the R5. (I still preferred the look of the Zoe, tbh!)

1. You've assumed that Chinese OEMs' lower costs are the result of unfair practices. Self-evidently, the bulk of the cost advantage they have comes from greater efficiencies of scale, more automation, more integrated supply chains, lower energy and transportation costs, and fierce domestic competition.

2. More fundamentally, you retaliatory and protectionist are not mutually exclusive tariff categories. A tariff is protectionist if it is aimed at shielding local producers from overseas competition, and it is retaliatory if that happens in response to another country's (purported) conduct. Unless the goods are made domestically, all tariffs are inherently protectionist.

Dumping is *defined* as selling the product abroad for less than it costs in the home market. Wake me up when I can buy a car like the Zeekr 7X for less than the $34k it costs in China, because it ain't happening any time soon. It costs $49k in the Netherlands before you add on EU tariffs that take the actual retail price up to $63k. And it's still absurdly good value at that $63k: the video below shows you the interior.

Chinese OEMs are selling cars abroad to make up for a weak home market, and offering big discounts, but they are absolutely not dumping, or anything close to it.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts...

There's no way an employer is using MDM to control this setting. They're much more concerned about managing copy-paste etc and protecting data.

I have no idea what you're talking about: you say safety, then immediately start talking about (absurdly) long commutes.

As a reminder, the average US car is driven 40 miles a day, and the average car in the UK is driven 30 miles a day. The percentage of cars being driven 400 miles a day in the US is vanishingly small, and the percentage doing a 400 mile round-trip commute is even smaller. Anyone who does that needs to get a new job, frankly.

Your weird size obsession is one of the reasons your roads are so unsafe compared to roads in my country. These giant vehicles are dangerous to everyone else around them.

I have consistently talked about the *UK* and the US. The UK is quite famously *not part of the EU*. Time for you to wind your neck in

I agree, especially when the story is plenty positive enough anyway: In 2019, only Norway had EVs accounting for a majority of new car sales. In 2020, there were two countries where this was true. In 2021, still two. In 2022, three. In 2023, five. In 2024, five. And in 2025, nine: Ethiopia, Norway, Denmark, Nepal, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland and China. In 2026, they’re likely to be joined by Singapore and Vietnam, and in 2027 by Belgium and Portugal, among others. Several of these markets have seen EV shares grow from 10% in 2023, so it’s been very fast. If we look at the three wheeler rather than car market, India is already there as well. The important question is when do Germany, the UK, France and Australia get there. Japan and the US will lag way behind, for obvious reasons.

You got lucky. A person I was in a HS class did a prank in college that was a break in to get something for a frat. He did get jail. I expect that 17 saved you. Barely. But I think jail is required here. Nothing less is going to stop this insanity. I expect fear of jail would be a very good deterrent for the cohort doing ai. All of these things are text book criminal, breaking in for monetary gain. My HS mate got jail and I doubt it even qualified as monetary gain.

I saw another story about booz allen running some tests on infrastructure. Except they bothered to setup a completely isolated environment to see what happened. I'm sure it cost them some money to setup process controllers etc, but they did the right thing. They did not release a potentially deadly ai out in the open.