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Comment Re:Not enough variables (Score 1) 175

Cars gets scrapped when the first issue where the cost approaches the market value of the car occurs. Anything more than a parking lot accident. It can be a low as 50% of the insured value to fix is considered a write off. The insurance company gets scrap or auction value from the old car, and there is no risk of the quote being exceeded, or follow-up problems as a result of the repair. My ex-wife wrote off my old car because it needed a bonnet, front bumper and a headlight after a 10kph crash.

No one is going to replace an aging battery either. They're so bespoke and technology is changing so quick, that no one manufactures replacements once the model is no longer in production.

If your battery fails after 8 years into your 10 year battery warranty, you'll be getting a refurbished second hand battery, not a brand new one.

Comment Re:Not enough variables (Score 1) 175

If you look on page S19, you'll see they've used projections to lower GHG emissions from electricity as time goes on.

They also note Arizona has areas almost entirely powered by coal. If you select Apache County in their tool, a hybrid has almost as low emissions as a long range EV.

It's not so black-and-white, it's dependent on the source of the electricity.

Comment Re:Not enough variables (Score 1) 175

Yes, depending on the cars being compared, the tipping point is somewhere between 100,000km and 200,000km.
In smaller countries than the US, it can easily take 20 years for an average car to hit 200,000km.

The average age of cars in New Zealand is over 14 years. This calculator assumes all cars are scrapped by then. We only drive, on average 14,000km per year. That includes all cars, like taxi's, ubers and couriers. Domestic use is around 10,000km per year.

I'd like to know the comparison between EV and ICE with lower annual usage.

Comment Re:Not enough variables (Score 1) 175

Depends a little on where the electricity is sourced.
In New Zealand, our usually 85%+ renewable electricity is supplemented with coal shipped over from Australia when there are shortfalls, since our gas fields are drying up.
If you charge your car in the upper North Island during peak power times, it's coming from coal mined in Australia, trucked to a port, shipped across the ocean, then trucked all the way to Huntly.

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Russia Orders State-Backed WhatsApp Rival Pre-Installed On Phones and Tablets (reuters.com) 29

Starting September 1st, Russia will require all smartphones and tablets sold in the country to come with MAX, a state-backed messaging app seen as a rival to WhatsApp and Telegram. Critics say the app could be used to track users. Reuters reports: The Russian government said in a statement that MAX, which will be integrated with government services, would be on a list of mandatory pre-installed apps on all "gadgets," including mobile phones and tablets, sold in Russia from September 1. State media says accusations from Kremlin critics that MAX is a spying app are false and that it has fewer permissions to access user data than rivals WhatsApp and Telegram. It will also be mandatory that from September 1, Russia's domestic app store, RuStore, which is pre-installed on all Android devices, will be pre-installed on Apple devices.

A Russian-language TV app called LIME HD TV, which allows people to watch state TV channels for free, will be pre-installed on all smart TVs sold in Russia from January 1, the government added. [...] MAX said this week that 18 million users had downloaded its app, parts of which are still in a testing phase. Russia's interior ministry said on Wednesday that MAX was safer than foreign rivals, but that it had arrested a suspect in the first fraud case using the new messenger.

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