I have a Tesla ~10k miles and have not used supercharger yet because I just plug the car in at home once a week.
If you estimate total pump time.
IE 35 minutes on supercharger vs 10 minutes on gas (including time to drive to station) but take into account number of times you need to actually charge up the car at a super charger. IE once every 2 months vs 3x per month, you will see that you actually spend less total time in a charger station vs gas pump.
It takes like 3 minutes tops to fill up a passenger car from near 0 to 100% range. I would have to stop for gas 10 times in a single month to use 30 minutes of pump time, which, for a car with 500 mile range, would imply 5000 miles of travel in a single month, which is almost non-stop driving at 50 mph. Driving to a station is never an issue, because gas stations are ubiquitous, and found along the route you're traveling anyways.
I spend more time pumping gas for my ICE than I do waiting on my EV to charge, by hours a year.
Lets say it takes 5 minutes on average to turn off to the gas station, go to the pump, pay to start the pump, get the handle into the car, actually pump the gas, return the pump handle, close it all up, get in the car, and rejoin traffic. In my testing its often more than 5 minutes from my times, but lets just say 5 to make things easy. I get gas about every other week in my ICE, so 5 minutes every other week, but I do take some vacations so lets round to a 50 week year, half of that is 25, times 5, 125. That's 125 minutes of pumping gas that I do every year. A little over 2 hours. And that's excluding any kind of road trips where I might have done several of those 5 minute stops in a single week.
Guess how much time I had to spend waiting on public DCFC last year? I took a road trip and stopped for maybe 40 minutes total. Outside of that, 0 minutes.
I spend more time waiting to recharge my ICE than I do my EV, by a good bit.
Lets take a look at US averages though instead of just my use case. Average miles driven is what, ~13,500? Average range of a car is ~400mi? That means ~33.75 fill ups a year instead of just 25? 33.75 * 5 = 168.75 minutes, or 2.8 hours a year pumping gas. If someone can charge at home and public chargers where they're already going to be (work/shop/relax places), they might not ever even need to wait on a public charger, so 2.8 hours compared to literally 0 minutes waiting for charging.
What all of these analyses fail to realize is that the network is just used for clearing most of trading and payments are actually done off network.
Think of the difference between energy used to buy gold (just buy GLD) vs energy used to move physical gold. (Fuel + Security etc)
Why the implicit antisemitism and need to list Israel in the name. I find it interesting that we never list other country origins when discussing their issues
Why the implicit antisemitism and need to list Israel in the name. I find it interesting that we never list other country origins when discussing their issues
"Post-truth"? Did you look for any evidence of this supposed pattern?
Exactly. Although it's a bit odd they added "Israeli". Israel != Judaism, yet the common automatic cry of "antisemitism" when criticising Israel is problematic.
> I find it interesting that we never list other country origins when discussing their issues
I don't remember ever reading a headline, clicking into it, and discovering that it's about something happening in China. The country origin is almost always advertised right in the headline itself.
In fact, since I'm not a fan of most China coverage in mainstream media, the above fact allows me to filter much of it out simply by CSS (using uBlock's implementation of the :has-text selector), with no need for JS (via userscripts).
Nowhere it is said in the article that the Hezbollah is responsible for the presence of the ammonium nitrate. Yes they did use it in the past, like almost all terrorist organization/militia, but there is no evidence that they had anything to do with its storage in the port.
The AlJazeera article explain very well how it came here.
Rumours of the responsibility of the Hezbollah, or Israel depending on which side of the fence you are, for the blast has been going on since day one, and there hasn't been any substantial proof.
Don't get me wrong, I have no sympathy for the Hezbollah, but lets be honest, the tragedy can be very well explain by the sheer level of incompetence and corruption of the Lebanese government (in which the Hezbollah also plays a big role).
Yes, their mustache-twirling nefarious plot to have large quantities of a relatively stable substance placed in a warehouse in the incredible hope the warehouse might some day also contain tons of fireworks, 10k tires, and detonation cord to set things off.
as a counterexample your clothes are stitched with thread, even when automated. Sure the stitching is different but it's still a style that's appreciated.
I'd absolutely love to see robotic bricklaying give bricks, and along with it brick ornaments, a comeback in medium scale construction. It's the only building material that is getting prettier as it ages. Bricks built both the industrial revolution and the Roman Empire.
I'm not an environmentalist, but even I would prefer we don't graduate to epoxy or resin for home construction. These things are all petroleum based and I have to imagine they outgas for a long period of time after construction. If they do burn, they will also doubtless emit lots of toxic gasses.
I would prefer 3d printing type automation, but applied to compacted dirt or clay. I love adobe and wish it was more popular. Big thick walls that keep out the heat and the cold seem like a no-brainer, if you can reinforce them to not crush you during earthquakes.
Agreed, although we already have a significant amount of petroleum based products in modern (US, anyway) homes: insulation (more and more styrofoam), sealing wraps, glues over fasteners, flooring, and plumbing. Your basic plywood by weight is a large part resins already, although no idea the makeup.
Maybe automation will make more "organic" building materials more affordable or feasible.
If you estimate total pump time.
IE 35 minutes on supercharger vs 10 minutes on gas (including time to drive to station) but take into account number of times you need to actually charge up the car at a super charger. IE once every 2 months vs 3x per month, you will see that you actually spend less total time in a charger station vs gas pump.