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I’ve heard people mocked for being “stuck in the 60s.”

Sodium cells also cost half as much to produce. Better cold-weather performance and charging to 80% in 15 minutes might make up for that in many people’s minds. Not to mention sodium being much more abundant and available than lithium. Categorically saying they’re a poor choice for a car disagrees with multiple car companies - you must know more than they do.

JAC Yiwei E10X late 2023

JMEV EV3 early 2024

Chery iCar / Little Ant

China has had production cars with sodium ion batteries for 2 years. I wonder when scientists will build enough Freedom into them for me to buy one in America.

I have a feeling these were designs, and about as popular in actual use as this item from a 2023 Paris fashion show

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State of the art Artificial Stupidity

No wheelbarrows yet?

“You and I are about as similar as two entirely dissimilar things in a pod.” - Edmund Blackadder

Maybe you can take comfort from the extremely low incidence of laptop battery fires in spite of millions of people leaving them plugged in all the time.

Bingpot! Features trump objections, which is how any industry knows it doesn’t really have to listen to users all that much. Deep down, addicts really don’t care if their heroin is ethically sourced from sustainably managed small-lot producers.

1977, editing the Monster Manual first draft: “Gary, the Mimic is Rare? - dude, homebrew DMs are gonna put ‘em all over the place!”

Boy Meets Future

Reminds me of a play I was in: “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade,” an early 60s play usually abbreviated Marat/Sade.