Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient

SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mtoboggan@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is the average overweight American F150 driver really so much quicker? You need to consider them getting out of the car, pumping gasoline, waddling inside to pay, waddling back, climbing into the truck all without dying of a heart attack or shortness of air.

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  • Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who said racism can’t be funny?

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      F150 drivers are a race?

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      • mtoboggan@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, their only chance to race is in a F150. Otherwise, it‘s a life in slow motion.

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t have a gas station on my garage wall.

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• DetectiveNo64@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll spend 12 minutes waiting so I’m not dependant on gas prices and to reduce emissions.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  5 minutes to get it to 70% capacity, with a batter that drives several hundred miles on a charge.

  But if you’re at the mall and there’s a charging station, you can plug it in and refill it while you do your shopping.

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• kimchi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only Fast Charging most EV owners do is on road trips. The rest is more like plugging your cell phone in while you sleep. So the relevant comparison is: how long do you usually stop for a bio-break & snack+checkout. I wish I could get the family in and out a convenience store as fast as the EV6 charges (though it’s much slower than Blade2’s high-speed charge).

  Of course, most petrol users fuel-up weekly is the USA (while most EVs charge overnight, similar to a cell phone), so the petrol car is starting each road trip at a disadvantage. If you fuel-up with petrol for 4 minutes, 4x/month, and road-trip 1x/month, then the petrol car starts each road trip 16 minutes behind.

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• Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t worry about down votes, this isn’t reddit. That said, useful context from the article is always helpful to prompt meaningful discussion.

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  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, i don’t care. It was just a cute that maybe i should have quoted the sentence i was referencing

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who spends 12 minutes putting petrol in their car?

  A lot of people plug in the gas hose, then waddle into the station for delicious sushi, case of beer, rotary hot dog. Lot longer than 12 minutes before they waddle back out again.

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