Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace

• Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ya, why do those big trucks have 40 gallon gas tanks? Not like anyone ever needs to drive that far at once.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So we are now comparing daily drivers to long haul truckers?

    Should we all be driving this?

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A man can dream.

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    • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What are you taking about?

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• daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No one should be driving that far at once,

  What a ridiculous blanket statement.

  Nobody should make such silly blanket statements. :P

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    in non shit hole countries, driving that far without breaks is illegal.

    in shit holes, over 40,000 are killed and countless more maimed for life on highways.

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• nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1000km range is fucking stupid. No one should be driving that far at once

  I take it you’ve never had an emergency while living in a remote area. Especially not one with cold winters that will tank your EV’s range.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You live outside of a thousand km range of anyone?

    Sure, lets make up fake once in a lifetime scenarios. What if we needto get 1000km from that comet impact?

    Car threads degrade to fucking stupid quickly.

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    • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, there are parts of Canada that remote that still have roads. I grew up in one of them. Let’s posit an urgent but not-likely-to-be-fatal medical emergency, like the torn and detached retina I had a few years ago. That required an urgent trip to a major city in particularly foul winter weather. Nearest major city to where I grew up was 800+km, and there are other towns further out than that one. Add to that battery loss in the cold, plus loss of battery capacity over time if you’ve had the car for a while, plus the vehicle having maybe already been driven that day without time to recharge completely . . . I can think of places up in that neck of the woods where I would be seriously worried that 1000km of rated range wouldn’t be enough, although it would be more than sufficient for where I’m now living.

      So I’m talking about shit that, in my experience, actually happens to actual people. The segment of the population involved is, admittedly, not all that large, but it’s of nonzero size—probably on the order of a few million, worldwide, spread through a number of countries that have large areas of empty nothing.

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    • Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Calling people stupid and then complaining about the reaction you get.

      I mean what do you expect?

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    • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Car threads degrade to fucking stupid quickly.

      Funny, I was looking at your comments and thinking precisely that.

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• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How much is the average used by daily drives? What about the 90% percentile. Something like 1000km must be on the extremely tail that. The only distance I can think of 1000km is going to and back from São Paulo to Rio.

  A 1000km range is a complete waste of resources.

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• ManicMambo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When the selfdriving feature gets even better, 1000 km will be useful.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When the selfdriving feature gets even better,

    you must be excited about this guy showing up next month.

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    • dupelet_comments@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Self driving is absolutely a thing. FULL self driving like what Tesla tries to bullshit about is a way off.

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• ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1000km range is fucking stupid. No one should be driving that far at once

  I’ve done it several times. It happens.

  the rest of the time you waste energy and money just carrying around thousands of pounds of batteries.

  It would certainly be interesting if EV’s had a means to load or unload batteries for more or less capacity. If the majority of the time you’re driving local it would certainly be better having a smaller battery pack loaded and then load more when you need the range. We’re a long way from being able to do that unfortunately

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve done a bit over 900km in a day a few times, it’s a full day, but easily done.

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