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Comment Re: We fear change. (Score 1) 522

I travelled from the Netherlands to Germany (700km/440mi round trip) with my 40 kWh Leaf and it was range anxiety hell.
I travelled from the Netherlands to Spain and Portugal (5000km/3000mi total) with my 60 kWh Tesla and it was awesome.

That said, the Spain trip was late last year and that was the last time I used a fast charger of any kind.

Submission + - Tesla needs to come clean about HW3 before the word 'fraud' comes out (electrek.co)

theweatherelectric writes: Fred Lambert of Electrek writes, "The walls are closing on Tesla’s claim that millions of its vehicles with Hardware 3 (HW3) computers will be capable of unsupervised self-driving. Tesla needs to come clean before the word 'fraud' comes out. Making a mistake is not a fraud. If Tesla really thought that it could deliver unsupervised self-driving to vehicles equipped with HW3 and, at one point, it figured out that it couldn’t, it’s not fraud even though it used that as a selling point for millions of vehicles for years. However, the moment Tesla figures out that it can’t, it needs to stop selling its Full Self-Driving package to HW3 vehicle owners and come clean to owners about what their vehicle will and will not be able to do, like a robotaxi service. Has the moment come?"

Comment Re: Who is the customer for these? (Score 1) 66

These disks should be written like tapes and can be read like disks, so theyâ(TM)re ideal for cold storage and backups, but theyâ(TM)re worthless for ânormalâ(TM) hdd workloads. The manufacturers should just market them as a new form of storage that just happens to look a lot like a hard disk, but they donâ(TM)t, and thatâ(TM)s where the problems start.

Comment Re:CISC vs RISC was not why x86 became dominant (Score 2) 118

The other theory is that it was all because of bureaucracy inside IBM.

Quoting (MIPS architect) John Mashey:

"In dealing with external supplier, there would generally be one IBM
division that would be the lead in dealing with that supplier, and
if you were in another division, you had to work through that first division.
Needless to say, a fast-track effort like the IBM PC wouldn't care for that
much ... and there was already another division using 68Ks ..."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yarchive.net%2Fcomp%2F...

Comment Seems complicated (Score 1) 146

So thereâ(TM)s a moving magnetic field that charges a battery that drives a motor to move the car at that same speed?

You know what else is linear and has a moving magnetic field and is designed to move things? A linear motor! Why donâ(TM)t they just slap a magnet under the car so that it becomes the ârotorâ(TM)?

That technically doesnâ(TM)t charge the battery, but it extends the carâ(TM)s range and thatâ(TM)s what counts.

Thinking about it, how will they ever make this cost-effective? So many coils.

Comment Re:but it's all bullshit (Score 3, Interesting) 142

You can charge your car in the 90+% of the time you don't use it.

An EV is only useful if:
1. You can charge it at home (or work) so it's on 100% when you start your day
2. The range is enough for 95% of your daily needs

In a couple of weeks I get a Nissan Leaf and I've been monitoring my current driving habits over the last months.
I don't expect I'll need a fast charger more often than once every few months.

Comment We should pay more (Score 1) 43

We, as users, pay every month four our Internet, so that the Internet is ours. Every website is our guest. Please let it be this way.

Unfortunately, most people only want to pay as little as possible. Either that, or there is a de-facto monopoly. In the first case, mantenance suffers to cut costs, in the second case thereâ(TM)s no reason to innovate.

We should keep the Internet ours and prevent the likes of Facebook and Amazon from starting to subsidize/buy Internet providers to enable/incentivize them to upgrade their network. Because from that moment on itâ(TM)s more and more *their* Internet and before too long we will be the guests.

Comment Re:Totally not gloating (Score 1) 174

When did they start to prepare for fiber/broadband by installing empty conduits in Norway?

The first time I saw them here in the Netherlands was in the mid to late '90s, in a 'rural' area (farmland, the nearest town with school & supermarket was 5km away, but that's about as rural as it gets round here).

That's twenty years ago and as a result our broadband penetration is top notch. Fiber roll out is going fast too.

If the USA wants to keep up, they'd better buy a time machine.

Comment Re:Pointless (Score 1) 199

A lot of secondary railroads all over Europe are not electrified, and that's where these diesel-powered Lint-trains show up. So that's the target market for these trains, not the main railroads.

And as said by others, there's a big problem with the fluctuations in energy output from wind and solar, especially in Germany. Instead of just throwing the energy away (like they do now), they could just as well use it to create hydrogen, even if it only has 50% efficiency.

That's why they're targeting the German market with this train.

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