ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 5 hours ago:
Agree with everything (especially the 10 x 500kW > 6 x 1MW part), I’m not saying building out the infrastructure will not happen, I’m just saying that it will be difficult and what I see in real world is far from the ideal you’re describing. On any longer travel I have to pass through low travel areas. Entering cities to charge is impractical because getting in and out can take 0.5-1h. The chargers are still unreliable so planning a longer route is not easy. I have to carefully check the chargers maps, looking at the distances between each charger and possible backups. 99% of people are not going to do this. Until a big. reliable network of fast chargers exists they will just stick to gasoline cars (or protest if you force them to switch). And building such networks is a slow and expensive.
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 6 hours ago:
I see couple other problems:
- you need to put some of the chargers in the middle of nowhere (next to a highway, hundredths of km from big cities. in Spain for example there’s a lot of depopulated areas). Building all the infrastructure to get the power there will be very expensive
- even in cities changing the grid like that can be very difficult. My office wanted to put 10 slow (20kW) chargers in the office and it took a year for the power company to make the necessary changes.
- at a gas station it’s hard to break the gasoline supply. Individual pumps can break but the supply is very robust. If anything at the 1MW charger breaks (lines, transformer, converter) the entire things goes out of service and will take hours/days to fix. Building those charges to be as reliable as gas stations will be difficult and expensive.
The charging times are not about how long do you have to wait while your car is charging but how many cars can you charge at peak hours. Last Easter in Spain there were huge lines to the charges because everyone was driving at the same time and there were simply not enough chargers. 5 min vs 10 min charging means the line is moving twice as fast.
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 17 hours ago:
Ionity has 300kW chargers in Spain but there are pretty rare. 50kW-100kW is most common here. Rolling out 1MW network will be very slow due to all the infrastructure it requires and judging by the prices of 150kW chargers, charging at 1MW speeds will probably be more expensive than gasoline. But in the end that’s the only way to actually replace gasoline cars so they will have to build it eventually. My guess would be 10-15 years before you can reliably (as in network big enough that you can easily find working chargers) charge at those speeds.
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 23 hours ago:
Interesting, I’ve found this quote:
“Unlike regular EV chargers, these new high-powered units can’t simply be installed anywhere, as they demand substantial electrical capacity to operate at full capacity. They may require more direct access to high-voltage mains, limiting their deployment to locations with robust grid infrastructure.”
I thought getting a 1MW connection to the grid is pretty much impossible for a charger. I wander if we’re going to see this in Europe.
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 day ago:
Charging this fast is always battery to battery, right? Any idea how many cars can the BYD charger charge before going back to a normal speed (i.e. getting power from the grid)?
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 1 day ago:
WTF? Just download it for free.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 2 days ago:
Because it’s fake?
- Comment on Hungary’s Musical Road plays a melody through your car tyres as you drive—an amazing fusion of road design and sound engineering. 2 days ago:
Do they play Russian anthem?
- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 4 days ago:
Yes, what I need is ever more noise pollution.
- Comment on Messing up my weekend schedule 5 days ago:
“The prophecy said 3 days but if you die on Friday evening and resurrect Sunday morning we can do it 40 hours max.”
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 6 days ago:
And I find watches with analog (non perpetual) dates useless because they will randomly jump a day at the end of the month so I can never really trust them.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 6 days ago:
I definitely don’t love the look. There are tons of better looking watches but analog perpetual calendars are crazy expensive, classic digital watches are ugly and smart watches have to be charged regularly. The only other brand I was considering was Festina but their connected watches are huge. It’s crazy but g-shock was the only thing I found that had digital date in dd/mm format and didn’t have heart rate monitor.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 6 days ago:
After something like a year of searching I finally got:
- solar powered, I never have to charge or change battery
- analog face with digital date, no need to adjust the date every month but looks good
- date in dd/mm format
- no GPS, no hear rate monitor, no notifications
Couldn’t find anything else that would tick those boxes.
- Comment on Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t understand why this guy is basing this on some monthly counts. Start google maps, see how long the route is, see what odometer is showing, check it again after arriving at the destination.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
I think the whole point of Paint and Notepad is that they are installed by default. They are there to give you the most basic functionality MS can offer without charging you extra. Now they are simply trying to get some extra money by funneling users to AI/MS 365.
- Comment on World's first 3D-texture UV printer for consumers now available for pre-order — prints onto 'nearly any surface' 1 week ago:
I guess things like covers, phone cases, mugs, stickers, magnets, frames or anything made out of wood, leather and so on. Probably something you would make for clients, not for yourself.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 1 week ago:
How much is it in normal units?
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 1 week ago:
Mind. Blown.
- Comment on Do you really have to let everyone know 1 week ago:
Maybe he lost a bunch of bets?
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 1 week ago:
No, you’re safe.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 1 week ago:
Only one way to find out…
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
We are the Foolish in my ass
- Comment on Failure Has Many Fathers at Apple Right Now. 1 week ago:
I don’t like their products or anything they do really but when Android goes closed source and de-googled phones are no longer possible I will definitely switch. Lesser evil.
- Comment on Movie reviews that had me laughing 2 weeks ago:
“Snow White is not only the #1 movie at the worldwide box office this week, but it is also the #5 biggest movie of the year at the global box office. At the domestic box office, Snow White sits at #3”
Disney reacting to those reviews:
- Comment on Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US) 2 weeks ago:
This looks nice but the prices are insane. €2,787.00 for a good FL 16 build? You have to even pay extra from USB ports. I can buy more or less as good Slimbook for half that price. Is the serviceability really worth it if my laptop will last 5-10 years anyway? I mean I can buy another entire Slimbook in 5 years and not spend that much more. What’s the justification for that?
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
How good are the foldable iPhones? Oh, that’s right…
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps 2 weeks ago:
Some time of bash script that takes a screenshot every couple seconds and mails it to Microsoft? I guess it could work.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps 2 weeks ago:
Time to switch to Windows I guess. Bye bye Linux!
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 2 weeks ago:
This is why people don’t trust the media anymore! /s
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
That’s just how the media work unfortunately. They keep explaining how tariffs work to people that know it while MAGA voters post ‘Fuck Biden’ over and over on twitter.
