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After his latest video on the EV road trip I am now a Technology Connections a-log.

There is way too much cope about the inconveniences of electric cars.
> I get to take a 30 min break for the car to charge to 80%. The time charging added only 20% time to my road trip.
People take breaks on road trips, but the car forces you to stop when you might still feel fine with driving. Many EV charging stations don't even have a roof and are in dark parking lots with no amenities. Gas drivers can take breaks whenever they want at much nicer public rest areas or gas station travel centers and aren't forced to stop at specific intervals.
> I found a $140 hotel with EV charging. So easy!
How much extra did he pay for hotel compared to others in the area? Getting a more expensive hotel just for the EV charging undid all the savings on gas. There is less options to find hotels away from bad areas and get better value.
> I just have to set up a second navigation app on my car with a nearby location to the charger that I actually want to go to so that the car can preheat my battery at the right time before charging.
What a headache. Many road trips I don't use a navigator because the interstate numbers aren't hard to understand and I can't stand the phone yapping at me every time I take a small detour. Major cities provide an easy belt way to bypass without needing complex navigation. Gas stations exist at every other exit and don't require logistics. The phone is reactive and not proactive, so it sends you down a small road with a line of cars to try saving 2 minutes when it does not realize that the blockage will clear up in 10 minutes anyways. Usually staying on the interstate is faster and less awkward turns.
> This charging station had bad reviews so I chose another one.
How much time do you spend fiddling with reviews, navigators, hotels, etc to make sure that you don't run out of charge? In a gas car if you run out AAA can put gas in your tank and you are ready to go. EVs usually have to get towed and it's more dangerous spending extra time in the shoulder.

If he just admitted that EVs are a pain in the ass but he likes the principle and likes the extra logistical challenge then I could respect him a bit. But this is like vegans telling a waiter how convenient it is to substitute ingredients on the menu and making a complicated special order to have more efficiently produced calories.
 
They just cant stop coping that using an ICE car is still better for intercity travel than EV. It takes more time to take a shit at the gas station, than to fill up 60L of diesel which, for a sensible european car gives you a little over 1000km range.

The two main problems of EVs are charging time and mass (energy density). The EV industry could combat ths first one by making batteries swappable, but they would rather kill themselves than agree on a single standard. The second problem is more complex to solve.

Until then, the only sensible usecase of EVs is urban transport where you can use regenerative breaking and you have access to EVSE (chargers) virtually everywhere. No amount of greenwashing is going to change the facts.
 
The Real Slim Shady said:
They just cant stop coping that using an ICE car is still better for intercity travel than EV. It takes more time to take a shit at the gas station, than to fill up 60L of diesel which, for a sensible european car gives you a little over 1000km range.

The two main problems of EVs are charging time and mass (energy density). The EV industry could combat ths first one by making batteries swappable, but they would rather kill themselves than agree on a single standard. The second problem is more complex to solve.

Until then, the only sensible usecase of EVs is urban transport where you can use regenerative breaking and you have access to EVSE (chargers) virtually everywhere. No amount of greenwashing is going to change the facts.
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Shady biz practices in EVs helped kill them:
-Reliance of gov't kickbacks to hide true purchase price
-Altered definitions of MPG - allowed by the DOT
-No standards in the recognition of time to charge, or actual charge potential
-No disclosure of heavily reduced charge potential in cold/freezing weather
-No standards for charge loss due to vehicle age and/or 'supercharge' damage
-No EV charger standards - this is getting better, but incompatibilities are abundant

Tech Connections is an idiot. The failure of trains and EVs is the voice of the consumer. Only through crippling taxes can trains and EVs exist (in current form).
However, they are currently available for 25% of original prices (and falling).
I worked in trains for years. My VP used to tell us "Cheaper to pay an Amtrak customer -2- roundtrip airline tickets to his destination, than have them use Amtrak"
We wrestled with @4 dozen unions in the train sector, some of which literally did nothing. All gov't subsidized.
 
The Real Slim Shady said:
The EV industry could combat ths first one by making batteries swappable, but they would rather kill themselves than agree on a single standard.
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They also face the problem that any standardised swappable system adds mass and reduces battery volume, and therefore reduces range significantly.
 
The Real Slim Shady said:
They just cant stop coping that using an ICE car is still better for intercity travel than EV. It takes more time to take a shit at the gas station, than to fill up 60L of diesel which, for a sensible european car gives you a little over 1000km range.

The two main problems of EVs are charging time and mass (energy density). The EV industry could combat ths first one by making batteries swappable, but they would rather kill themselves than agree on a single standard. The second problem is more complex to solve.

Until then, the only sensible usecase of EVs is urban transport where you can use regenerative breaking and you have access to EVSE (chargers) virtually everywhere. No amount of greenwashing is going to change the facts.
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Chinese automaker NIO does have battery swapping as an option, in addition to a battery-as-a-service plan where you pay less for the car upfront, and pay a subscription for the battery. However, it's expensive as fuck for NIO to maintain, and other Chinese EV brands have not decided to adapt their cars to be also be compatible with them. It also sounds like a liability issue if a defective battery gets swapped from car to car, and then it catches fire or fails completely.

In comparison, China's largest automaker BYD has been pushing their Flash Charging 2.0 system with their Blade Battery 2.0 in their newest cars for even faster charging times, but those will probably put even more stress on those batteries, in which Chinese ones are already suspect because they live to immolate themselves.
 
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He posted another video on the 12th.

Not much to write home about here, so I don't think it needs archiving that badly. The only noteworthy part (to us) is at 16:50 when he says "That's for those of you who still think I'm carbrained".
 
LilShotaBoy said:
He posted another video on the 12th.
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For all his faggy cheering about SAFETY CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, I was disappointed he didn't explain how they detect failure. The bell was safety critical, then it died, and how long did it take to notice this? Are they remotely monitoring these somehow? That story would've been way more interesting than sperging about alarm patterns and telegrams.
 
LilShotaBoy said:
He posted another video on the 12th.

Not much to write home about here, so I don't think it needs archiving that badly. The only noteworthy part (to us) is at 16:50 when he says "That's for those of you who still think I'm carbrained".
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This lazy fat fuck made a video about the importance of sound signals and didn't even mention tsunami/earthquake warning systems that are in use in Japan. He had one job and failed it
 
This only reinforces my opinion that he shat out a quick low effort video to control the damage after the recent spergout.
 
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