My issue with typical hybrids is that they got all the complexity of an ICE powertrain, in addition to all the complexity of an EV powertrain, plus the complexity of merging the two.
Slightly less efficient, but I think I’m more in support of EVs with gas range extenders. Maybe it’s just a question of semantics. But more than that (if we’re gonna keep cars) we need to invest in charging infrastructure. Idk why it sucks so bad, and why gas stations aren’t installing charging stations.
We will never consumer our way of of a problem capitalism created. And public transit is nearly always a better solution to spending on car infrastructure.
… but… If you’re gonna buy a new car anyway, they have the potential to cause less climate impact (although they’re still environmentally devastating in other ways). As power generation becomes cleaner, so too do the cars. ICE cars are already about as environmentally friendly as they’re gonna get, but EVs still have a lot of potential improvement (both in emissions and in things like material mining).
Although the tire microplastics is gonna get worse.
My issue isn’t with adding electric to a gas car. My issue is adding gas to an electric car.
The ICE drive train adds a TON of complexity to an EV. If you’re gonna add ICE to an EV I think that it makes more sense to have a little range-extender generator, which is simple and cheap (because it only needs to run at a single RPM and constant load) which you can just run to add a bit more charge to your battery on long road trips.
But ideally we’d just have better charging infrastructure.
Yeah, it’s cyclical. They’re re-entering their shithead phase.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. The got smacked with those EU antitrust lawsuits and they reset back to Embrace, and started participating in open-source again. Then they started extending by doing shit like buying GitHub and adding even more cool shit to it. Now they’re entering in extinguish phase where they’re doing shit like making it difficult to change default browser, and integrating all their services together without the ability to integrate 3rd parties.
They’ll (hopefully) get smacked with another EU antitrust lawsuit and reset soon.
When you grow older, you will feel the betrayal of the bed. You will wake sore all over as though your bed beat you while you slept. Back, hips, shoulders, neck, all targets of the bed.
I know, I actually live in Nova Scotia 😌 Although I don’t think I’ve ever visited that river. Between Truro and Amherst I don’t think I ever leave the TransCanada lol
When riverwash pug, then that is a pugwash, and it becomes a pugwash river. Then if you wash another pug, pugwash riverwash pug. And if the river is full of pugs instead of water, that is what they call a … engages dr Seuss mode
Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one (lemmy.world)
But it's all about convenience (teacup.social)
🇪🇺 How the EU Feels about (lemmy.ml)
Context: Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption...
Given all the accurate predictions of the Simpsons and Futurama (lemmy.ca)
Never buy used air pods (slrpnk.net)
Hmm... what to say ? (sopuli.xyz)
Where my watersluts at? (lemmy.ml)
Living in glass houses (i.imgur.com)
Pugwash. (lemmy.world)
or you know... just shut up (programming.dev)
rawr
My bet is still with the Zuck! (lemmy.world)
Every moment. I Live. Is Agony! *Violent wretching* (slrpnk.net)
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who even goes outside anymore? (lemmy.ca)
Nobody wants to run a Roomba while they’re still home, right?
It's time (lemmy.ca)
Like wiping a marker
did the Simpsons get another one right? (lemmy.ca)
With all this talk of UFOs, I have to wonder about the Simpsons prediction accuracy.