[JimmyTheHand]

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

Agree. Not now, but up to 2022 I was in a business doing very large scale safety-of-life systems integration for the past 15 years. Software is nowhere near perfect and redundant hardware reliablibilty at a cost point that makes self driving anywhere near safe in a $40,000 automobile doesn't exist. The near autonomous Google pods that self-drive around Silicon Valley have goofy-ass-looking sensor suites that are impractical for private ownership and those cars still hit things, animals, and humans. The tech can probably get there eventually, but affordability is the real question.

I suspect we are going to need a major new technology to handle self driving - the LLMs such as ChatGPT, as clever as they are and despite the hype, are unlikely give you such as they don't understand anything as they are just statistical models, e.g. they have no comprehension about something being solid and that the car can't enter same space as another solid - they have just learnt they shouldn't cross that line and if the line looks different they may have not learnt not to cross it.

I suspect we are also going to need powerful computers on the car and currently those will take a lot of space and power.

Probably doesn't help with people like Musk thinking humans only need eyes to drive - so fixed cameras can work as well - no my eyes and head are mobile and neural net that's taken decades to train to comprehend the world.

I think This xkcd sums it up

[JimmyTheHand]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

Ok.

If you are using the meter to check whether you have RF emissions, get an idea of the power and try to locate the sources, I sure it will do a good job especially if it is very directional – and if I was trying to trace source of interference I’d likely consider one (as I said trust it to show there is some RF).

Studies have found no evidence that low level RF energy has impact on peoples' health, so for almost everyone there is no issue or need to worry, but I don’t rule out people being sensitive to EMF as who knows what is buried in our DNA that is only active for a few people and some animals are able to detect electrical signals.

[crAbb]

[RM7]

Originally Posted by crAbb

What kind of dipsh*t graph plots median against average?

[TboneS54]

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

Beta testing...

"Beta testing" takes on a whole new meaning with the EV sycophants.

[x622]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

Charging in TX might get exciting this Summer. The Green Insanity rolls on, even in TX.

August power prices for Dallas have jumped to $168.70 a megawatt-hour, the highest level in five years for this time of the year, and an 82% premium versus a year earlier. Gee, I wonder why.

https://twitter.com/tracyalloway/sta...5Es1_&ref_url=

It's more than that actually

- Massive amounts of AI DC's being built right now, so many that there is even a mortarium on new load in Virginia for example. I'm familiar with 9 (yes nine) projects that are 400MW plus.
- Yes, intermittent generation does have an impact on baseload cost, however this is not the primary driver
- Several gigawatts worth of total capacity is being sucked up by companies like yours truly, however it's all curtailable and pretty much all of them curtail when load spikes - but this does absorb baseline generation capacity
- Continued upgrades around the entire system, including new transmission lines being built everywhere to reinforce the grid and have additional redundancy
- More players in the bidding market space makes this even more hyper competitive
- Temperature is pretty hot this time of year, but thankfully not as bad as last year


I hate green morons just as much if not more than anyone else here, but that's not the total story.

[eugenebmw]

The Supercharger network is Tesla’s biggest competitive advantage, and knee-capping it just as it is about to become the defacto charging network for the North American is insane.”

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

When the regret is real, but your pocketbook is thin.

A gloss wrap, that's a first with me.

[eugenebmw]

Sky-High Depreciation And Massive Repair Bills Force Hertz To Sell 30,000 EVs

https://jalopnik.com/sky-high-deprec...-he-1851447937

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by eugenebmw

Sky-High Depreciation And Massive Repair Bills Force Hertz To Sell 30,000 EVs

https://jalopnik.com/sky-high-deprec...-he-1851447937

Heard the Army need more useless cars for target practice

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

When Old Man Winter parks the Polar Vortex on top of MN, god help us at 2 a.m. and -30F.

Smart money says the folks that voted for this have backup generators (powered by fossil fuel) and a second home in Florida.

[King_Leonard]

Originally Posted by eugenebmw

Sky-High Depreciation And Massive Repair Bills Force Hertz To Sell 30,000 EVs

https://jalopnik.com/sky-high-deprec...-he-1851447937

High maintenance costs? Can someone explain this to me?

[gblansten]

Originally Posted by King_Leonard

High maintenance costs? Can someone explain this to me?

I will have to buy some wiper blades next year and I will likely need to buy some windshield wiper fluid in about six months. Inflation makes those purchases just financially devastating. And I will need tires.

[eugenebmw]

Originally Posted by gblansten

I will have to buy some wiper blades next year and I will likely need to buy some windshield wiper fluid in about six months. Inflation makes those purchases just financially devastating. And I will need tires.

The different is lease is usually one owner vs the hundred and hundred of drivers during the rental car lifetime. Simple math

You never know what drivers are doing to the rental car. Can be abusive drivers and passengers.

How many miles in average you drove your car in one year? A rental car can easy 4X of your mileages.

[x622]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

Being told to curtail for any business is expensive. The subsidies are for wind and solar and people are making good money off of the Feds dollar. More and more state utility boards are piping up.

Minnesota building a huge transmission project from SD bringing in solar and wind. At the same time shutting 3 coal fired units in Becker MN. 2 gas fired peaker plants stuck in lawsuit purgatory. When Old Man Winter parks the Polar Vortex on top of MN, god help us at 2 a.m. and -30F.

Huh? Curtailment is optional part of purchasing 24/7 blocks of power. You might buy a Mwh in the 24/7 market there for $65 but then if you sign up for say 4CP you can shave the peaks and drop your actual rate to sub 5. It's not expensive, it's a money making venture and part of the life and process of any business that can curtail. It's not like aluminum smelting plants curtail.

Peaker plants come online to make sure we don't see frequency collapse as we dip below 60hz. You're correct in that the government is negatively incentivizing coal peaker plants, and some are being converted to nat gas, which has it's own issues and has it's own volatile market. Part of the reason electricity got so high is because the sheer cost of LNG which was due to Ukraine.

[x622]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

I assumed curtailment meant the power company calls and says shut your plant down for x amount of time.

MN can't get gas peaker plants built, Green lawsuits.

Most places can't get baseline generation built due to green lawsuits and blockages by the federal government. If you're not the en vouge type of generation, they want nothing to do with you.

As far as I know there is no involuntarily curtailment in any market except California.

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

They can repair EV batteries!
For most products, repair is a more affordable option than replacement. And in theory, lots of these Tesla batteries can be fixed, said Benoit, who runs one of the few Tesla-focused independent repair shops in the United States.

This is complete bull crap. Anyone spending money on repairing a LiPo battery pack with thousands of cycles is an idiot. All Lipo batteries increase in internal resistance and exhibit a reduction in average output voltage based on number and type of cycles. Replace all or none. It just a fact of batteries. Do you expect replacing the rings on one cylinder on a ICE engine to return it to as new HP and Torque? This battery rebuilding with be the next EV fraud. People will rebuild low out put batteries and sell the car to some new EV victim.

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

MN can't get gas peaker plants built, Green lawsuits.

We are in a time when one has to consider relocating to get away from idiots. I moved my business's from Massachusetts to Connecticut when things were getting insane and than to Pennsylvania. I hope I'm done running away from idiots

[eugenebmw]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

We are in a time when one has to consider relocating to get away from idiots. I moved my business's from Massachusetts to Connecticut when things were getting insane and than to Pennsylvania. I hope I'm done running away from idiots

You need a faster car go faster than your current BMW, those idiots are on the rise

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by eugenebmw

You need a faster car go faster than your current BMW, those idiots are on the rise

When the M4CS will not get it done, there is always SIG Sauer.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

We are in a time when one has to consider relocating to get away from idiots. I moved my business's from Massachusetts to Connecticut when things were getting insane and than to Pennsylvania. I hope I'm done running away from idiots

Same similar thing is in London and its 'burbs, the green desease and I'm sure you read the news today. Thankfully we finally recently secured a place well away from there to where people are friendlier... and the roads are faster

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

Good luck London.

Nope, the news is bad for London.