piquadrat
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Comment · 3 months ago
Your Polestar 2 battery is based on battery technology that is 5+ years old. Right now you can buy a BYD car in China that charges at up to 1500kW - close to 10x the peak charging rate of a Polestar 2.
Comment · 8 months ago
Isn't what you are describing known as Zonal Architecture (as opposed to Domain Architecture) and supposed to be the hot new way of architecting automotive platforms? Tesla was pioneering it. The Volkswagen Group spent billions to get their hands on Rivian's zonal architecture platform.
https://insideevs.com/features/724945/zonal-architecture-sof...
Comment · 11 months ago
That's something that should be possible with the upcoming Workflow feature. Some details can be found in the November Recap blog post.
Comment · 1 year ago
They announced that Nano Banana will be integrated in Google Photos a couple weeks ago.
https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-google-product...
Comment · 2 years ago
My source is an article from the ADAC, a German automobile association.
https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/elektromobilitaet/lade...
They say 100-300W for the onboard electronics, and 15-25% total loss when using a wall socket (other losers contribute as well, e.g. cables that weren't originally meant to run at peak current for hours on time).
Comment · 2 years ago
One drawback of charging on an 120v (or 230v) outlet is efficiency. While charging, the energy consumption of an electric car can easily reach 300-400 watts. When you're only charging with 1800-2400 watts, that's a sizeable amount of energy that never reaches the battery.
With a dedicated level 2 charger, you can charge with 10+ kW, making the percentage that is lost in the electronics of the vehicle much smaller.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Model 3/Model Y has been the most sold new car in California and a few other areas, selling more than the usual toyotas and hondas.
Model Y is going to be the most sold car model of 2023, not just in California, but in the whole world.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/28/tesla-model-y-going-to-...
Comment · 3 years ago
Only about 7000 of those are HPCs (150kW+)[1]. This proposed law mandates at least 150kw per charge point, so it would more than triple the amount of HPC charge points.
In general, it makes a lot of sense to differentiate between slow chargers (usually AC, 11-22kW, installed at home, at work, in parking lots), DC fast chargers (50-100kw, often installed at grocery stores and similar) and HPCs (150kw+, often installed along highway corridors, enabling longer trips). They all serve different purposes.
[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/germany-added-35-more-ele...
Comment · 4 years ago
I wish Google Maps had an option to avoid small roads that are not made for transit traffic. I live next to such a road, and the amount of cars using it has grown considerably over the last few years, many with license plates from neighboring regions. Taking this narrow road saves them maybe two minutes compared with an adjacent, much wider road.
Comment · 4 years ago
The problem is more that the Swiss Plateau (where most of these tunnels would be built) is very densely populated. There's just not enough room for a whole new road network to be built on the surface.
Comment · 4 years ago
Well, he for sure pissed Garmin off with his review of the Garmin RCT715[0] (the bike camera/radar/light thingy). At least in my case, his review stopped me from upgrading from an RTL515.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, I unplugged it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Just yesterday I noticed that a device installed by the cable TV company in my house (a WISI VX 2030 amplifier, according to the sticker) was warm to the touch. Measuring its power consumption, it uses a constant 15 watt, so about 130kwh/year.
I don't use cable.