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Ethanol is just as bad. The problem with battery cars is that they're still cars.

Those massive lumps of metal and plastic are absurdly heavy for the cargo they are moving. We figured out that the vehicle needs to weigh less than the cargo around the time of the pyramids when we used logs as rollers to move heavy stone.

Also, cars cause massive amounts of damage to the roads they use (again, because they are so absurdly heavy).

Not to mention that cars indirectly cause people to spread out more, which increases the amount of roads, pipes, and lines you need per capita with accompanying maintenance costs. An alternative way of looking at the same issue is that the property tax income per square mile drops (because you have less people living on the same area). Your town is going bankrupt because of unprofitable suburbs.

And there is no actual benefit, since people still commute on average 40 minutes of travel time. Your car might be moving faster, but your travel time is identical.

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uhm, car battery exchange is not as easy as changing the battery on your vape.How much an electric vehicle (EV) battery weighs depends greatly on the vehicle and model. On average, however, EV batteries weigh around 454 kg (1,000 pounds), although some can weigh as much as 900 kg (2,000 pounds).

Elon tried another lie, where he claimed that a tesla battery could be changed faster than it took a comparable gas powered car to fill the tank with fuel. On the video used to demonstrate this, all you could see was a tesla stop on a platform, wait ca 90 seconds then driving off the platform. No moving parts was visible underneath it.https://techcrunch.com/2013...

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Well, that and the fact that most of the South's completely non-standard infrastructure had been destroyed in its failed bid to force slavery everywhere. Afterward it was mostly rebuilt by carpetbagging Northerners who built standard gauge railways to run their equipment on.

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I knows I ain't the sharpest cookie in the toolbox but why the fuck ain't anyone made a bootleg transformer that you can plug in at home (or outta your hotel window) and charge your car battery, and maybe your vape pen while you's at it?

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I knew Stable Diffusion before she was a porn star and she was alot more fun then.

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Yeah, I wonder why they don't create a system that can do as much, or some kinda battery exchange.

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I’m just waiting for the patent to go through before I put it in production.

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Ford doesn't produce its own parts, they're all from subcontractors. Tesla would be buying from the actual manufacturers. It's possible they have some sort of agreement to share subcontractor lists.

I'll pretty much guarantee that Ford's software isn't managing the battery, they laid off almost all their programming staff decades ago like Boeing to use cheaper contractors. If they have someone smart in management (always a dubious proposition at a US car company) they've licensed Tesla's software, if not then they're using some cobbled-together crap written in India and you'll see short battery lifespans in their products.

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Tesla offered their tech to *all* the other car companies years ago, they turned it down to build their own inferior system because they couldn't stand the idea of an upstart car company even existing much less being better than they were at something.

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Well aware. The problem here is Congress not forcing industry experts to meet, pool their best ideas into a single standard... then mandating its adoption.

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Have you seen this? Electric crate motors for classic cars (a couple more companies have appeared since this was written.)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/a...

The company will offer two crate motors, the strongest generating just under 180 kilowatts (240 horsepower) and 460 newton-meters (340 pound-feet) of instant electric torque.

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The first standardization was in the late 40's. That;s neither 20 years ago nor WWI.

Are you ever correct about anything or do you just spew whatever bullshit and lies you come up with as a matter of course?

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Because of an old business I ran I used to get a free subscription to Advanced Imaging magazine. They did an article on TI's DLP 20+ years ago. The tech then was absolutely mindblowing.

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That's WorldVision, isn't it? They were headquartered in Seattle's south end when I applied there around 2003 or so. I'd worked for nonprofits before and expected some oddities, but nothing like their mandatory prayer time. The initial phone interview was enough for me.

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Tesla offered the tech to all the car companies years ago, they all refused because they thought it would help run their new competitor into bankruptcy. Surprise!

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Would you want it to? The Leaf had no active heat management system for its batteries.

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