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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • There are 3 issues that I have heard about EV’s from skeptics and just people in general.

    1. Range
    2. Weight
    3. Saftey pertaining to fires

    1 is being addressed drastically across the field 2 is as well if you look at any off the solid state batteries. For instance Honda is basing their advancements on using high density but creating smaller batteries, as they believe 1000 miles is going to be easily attainable but unnecessary for many users. So launching a vehicle with a 500 mile range that can charge faster and carry less weight is something they want in their repertoire. I would argue both 3 & 2 are being addressed in this setup IF what they are saying is true. It can cut back on fires, which scares buyers and gives ICE owners strawmen to pick at and try to make into a much larger issue than it really has been (at least in the U.S.). As for 2, it allows for a sturdy building block that attached to the frame, thereby cutting down on beams needing to be installed to brace the battery in place that already weighs more. IF they can keep the battery at the same weight, and not need the extra support beams, then you cut some of the extra weight. Throw in Hondas smaller batteries and all the sudden you have EV’s going 500 miles, at the same weight of an ICE vehicle for the same price. Maintenance costs lower, impact on the environment drastically lower at that point, and charging an EV off your home electricity costs in most of America would be 1/3 of buying gas.

    Edit to throw in, we don’t have to ship oil tankers across the oceans constantly, cutting shipping impacts. (Some estimates show coal and oil shipments being up to 40% of our shipping overseas).


  • Agreed, that’s why I was asking more about perception and mentioned it as an entertainment piece in the comment above. Sometimes speculation can be fun though. Some of my fondest memories of technology coming out aren’t from the use, but the moments of discussion, expectations, and waiting. Like I never had a Wii, but I remember waiting for the Wii to launch at midnight back in the day. Sometimes you learn a lot more about a product than you would otherwise ever have looked into once it was already out by discussing the up and coming and comparing post launch.

    Will I ever own this product… I doubt it. But someday a product built off pieces of it’s design or maybe even largely copied, possibly.


  • Wouldn’t “The company is planning its official debut in the Korean market in January 2025.” mean they are well beyond maybes if it is set to debut in less than 2 months? They already have had to produce the battery for the nail testings they mentioned as well as the adding and modifying of individual cells. I am no expert on batteries just interested and trying to learn more. But knowing how productions/releases work with cars/electronics in the U.S. I would have to assume they have had this completed for almost a year at least and are waiting on that debut to launch. Thereby making it entertainment journalism if you will because they just know bits of information as maybe more hasn’t been leaked.



  • For me its that even if I pay for 1gb/down, it drops to around 25mb down. That was after I switched off spectrum, which I had 200 down, and would fall to 5mb/s down, and I would start to lose VoIP calls while using any amount of remote software. Would happen just about daily and one of the main times it would happen was around noon. Now I could have switched to a business line to see if I could get more guaranteed stable bandwidth, but honestly it’s just bull shit that the infrastructure is that bad in the first place. I would like the FCC to mandate instead of max up/down speeds possible, that minimum up/down speeds (outside of outages, which outage time should be reported as well) as what is advertised. So instead of 1Gb/down for just $69.99/month, we see 50mb/s down minimum for $69.99/ month, and all times their infrastructure does not meet their advertized rate which you are paying for, is moved to $0. So you bill decreases based upon outages.