Here it has been from 8 to 13°C with sun these days, so all the snow is going away way too fast :(
Feel free to send your weather back to Switzerland, we'll take it haha
Most people freak out about range, want cars with same range as ICE, but actually only do 15 miles to go to work... And 10 more miles for groceries...
Then once every 3 years, they do a longer trip with the kids and at that point they really need the range.
I would argue that in that scenario you can plan your trip to include the charging stops, meaning: 1 during every meal, 1 for restroom stop, 1 for coffee in the morning, etc...
When you drive more than 5 hours, you should not be worrying about 1 to 2 hours lost :( That also means that the charging infrastructure must be good and cars must have modern high speed charging. That is only my opinion.
So in that department, Tesla is a clear winner for now. I've seen horrific videos from the canadians at "TheStraightPipes" about Canada/USA "regular" charging points :(
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That is a downside too, IMO :
There are tons of people that don't like driving and often own small cars by necessity. These cars are often low power ICEs.
What happens when they all get the EV version with 100+HP with instant torque? (the ID.3 is 204HP and a Nissan Leaf is 150-217HP!!!).
Well, like when Tesla became popular, suddenly everyone started crashing its car and blaming the "autonomous driving"....
The issue will be even worth in countries where the roundabout is widespread, as people will have the habit of 10/20/30+ years of driving next to people having slow starting cars, hence thinking they can cut the priority like usual, only to find the car entering 2x faster and now be in front of them instead of slowing starting.
Yeah, the thing is that people see ridiculous ranges like you have on a modern Tesla, then calculate how much time you need for a full charge from a regular wall plug, then realize it is an absurdly long time, doesn't fit overnight, then decide EVs are stupid and gas is better.
But they mostly forget than:
1. US has 110V and it is slow, but that is only a US problem, since EU for example has 230V.
2. You can always upgrade your electrical infrastructure or install a dedicated EV charger (level 1 vs level 2 charging). Around here, I've heard that a good charging box costs ~2000Euros. Then you must add installation costs. That is for level 2 charging (relatively fast, but not supercharge).
2. They probably don't drive more than 20-30 miles a day, so they don't need to charge 300+ miles per night.
3. Charging 20 miles per night on 230V-10A (2300W) in EU is, assuming ~25kWh/100mi : 5kWh -> 5000W * 1h -> 2300W * ~2h. A bit more than 2 hours. So overnight, you can charge from 80 to 120 miles easily.
Atom C3558 here, took more than 1 day for the ~450GB to sync
With some napkin math, you can conclude that with current mining difficulty and 5 cts/kWh, a miner needs the Bitcoin to sit at ~26000$ to offset the electricity cost of a S19 Pro Antminer post 2024 halving. Maybe new ASICs can offset some costs by being more efficient, but the miner still wants to earn money, so there is only one way for Bitcoin, otherwise the network will loose a lot of weight quickly.
I'm the proud owner of a nostr relay AND a full bitcoin node, as of this morning #bitcoin
The day is 11.02, and the damn node is still not fully synced (90%+) 😴😴😴😴
My bitcoin node has reached the start of 2020's bullrun. He must be pretty happy right now 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Status on the bitcoin node sync : 50%+ 👀👀
Using PIA because some docker containers have variables built-in to handle its port forwarding mechanism (port is given to you dynamically, so you need some way to retrieve it and pass it to whatever needs that info inside the docker).
Thanks for the info. I only saw something saying anigma (previously nostrgram) and honestly didn't look any further ... :(
By tomorrow, I'll have a nostr relay AND a full bitcoin node. Next step ? 👀👀👀
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"Ho yeah, did it work as expected?"
"F**** n00b deployed it on the production servers"