Range: 350km, max charging speed 100kW. (probably).

Optics doesn’t work like that :D

It would have to be a physical plate or film in the phone. I doubt they would add moving parts.

Trying to turn their current crop of huge, heavy SUVs and trucks into EVs is a fool’s errand. The battery packs required to give these beasts the range that people expect of them will be prohibitively expensive, making the trucks themselves so expensive they will sell poorly, and GM won’t be making much of a profit on them anyway.

No, GM would rather stick to making big, stinky, oversized trucks, and then they will lobby against all green regulations that could be seen to be an impediment to selling these things.

Kind of hard to fix that, since it’s a fundamental feature of optics (light vergence increases the closer you get to an object). The only thing a phone can do is increase the font size lol. Otherwise you have to wear glasses of some sort, or contacts.

Most of the big brands should just offer a BEV version of all their vehicles, and the customer can choose if they want it like it’s an option.

468km with an 82kwh battery is still not great efficiency, but I’ll take it.

Model 3 LFP, I lose about 50% of my max range when it’s very cold (-30c and below), but the biggest issue is failure to fast charge (max 7kw or sometimes not possible at all).

Imagine Factorio stored entirely in CPU

BYD gives no fucks, they have unreal battery production capacity. Once they are able to produce and sell enough cars that they become battery-limited, Tesla will get the heave-ho.

Dat sweet, sweet government stimulus money.

Looks pretty cool, but what I really want to know is the kWh size of the battery, as well as the potential charging rate from the solar panels in the sun (1kW? 2?). Would be awesome to leave it parked during the day and have it charge itself up to full all the time.

LFP batteries are worse in the cold though, so just be cautious if you are somewhere that gets very cold. I am annoyed by the winter performance of mine.

Gas is still too cheap. Our whole society is based on cheap gas. Our urban sprawl is from cheap gas. Then environment is changing because of cheap gas. It has to stop, the negative externalities are too great.

How is it possible to compare new phones to old? Newer batteries always have less degradation than old, even if the old phone is completely unused.

Apple and Google are already deeply intertwined. Might as well call them “frenemies” rather than direct competitors.

Sodium-ion is not as good as lithium-ion for almost every application, but there are particular niches for which it will be amazing. Grid storage is one, but also short-range e-mobility like cheap cars with sub-400km of range, and things like that.

The real advantages of Na-ion batteries is they are cheap and safe. Mass production of them will basically allow China to “electrify all the things.”

It’ll be fine. Depending on the power of your home charger it might struggle to charge at -10f, especially if it has an LFP battery pack, but just left out it will be fine. Make sure to turn sentry mode off.

EV trucks can be made by any company, but it’s the charging that will be killer.

This is like getting a charging brick with your $2000 phone. Except this truck is $100,000.