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I’ll be interested to hear about your real-world experiences at charging stations.
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Factory outlet near me is the most crowded charging station I’ve ever been to. A byproduct of people killing two birds with one stone. Thankfully there are a few others that you can re-route to in that area when needed.
Charging infrastructure is expanding rapidly and will continue to do so. The "too fast" argument is a political tool. Don't get suckered.
No, I gave an example in my immediate area. It's too fast to say no more ICE cars by 2030 (or is it 2035?) in NJ, IMO, unless the charging network is vastly accelerated and improved.
Exactly. It's not really worth arguing about because pragmatism will eventually rule this issue. People's cars and freedom of movement are just too important to them in this country.
I'm not so sure with the utilities. See Hawaii pre-wildfires. Very reactive, poorly managed monopolies.
Agree. And to add, the IRA incentives are working. Currently, an atom of lithium or nickel literally circles the globe before it makes its way into a battery pack. China has a strangle hold on the refining of EV minerals. We're seeing plans for domestic manufacturing, mining, and refining jobs return to the US. This is something that should be celebrated, but with our toxic political environment, no side dare give the other credit for anything.
That's the part I constantly scratch my head on. Where's that can-do American spirit? Guess it got buried in partisan, corrupt politics. Sad.
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This is why it’s silly people make a big deal about which plug is used.
A universal is just an adapter. That’s why it shouldn’t matter which charging port a car has.
There are threads on the Lightning forums, and I stopped paying attention. Do we need an adapter at the Tesla charging stations, and which one do we need it we do need one?
I’m guessing Ford will send out an adapter based on the type of adapter the car has.
More than likely Ford will sell you the adapter. Also, something new is occurring, charging stations like EA will not let you plug in with an adapter that is not produced by the company that built your car.
There are always people who fight change for one reason or another. Doubtless lots of people fought and knocked horseless carriages when they first came out. My father programmed mainframe computers when I was a kid and dismissed PCs when I first took programming in high school. People will adopt new technologies when it works for them. EVs have reached that point for many people, and profitability for companies, so there's no reason to believe the trend of increasing EVs on the road won't continue. Politicians and talking heads can be ignored. The numbers are clear. It's just so ironic that the main force globally behind this is Elon Musk, a guy who has moved far to the right politically yet is the driving force behind a cause dear to the left. It puts partisans into a strange bind.
I suspect you were in HS in the mid-80's. So I would agree with your Dad. You have to realize that PC's were hardly 3 years old when Microsoft introduced the Windows Operating System in 83.
JD Power has always been a pay to play marketing system that manufacturers use to market their vehicles. Their rating systems have always been worthless to the consumer.
What Elon displayed Friday night with V12 confirms the game changing technology they are building - it is taking a long time but when it goes into production massive immediate scaling is certain. The $ margins are software like - huge.
Even so, they were new. Of course they weren't going to compete with mainframes yet, but anyone with vision could see that would change. New inventions always improve over time.
The All in Podcast had a good discussion on the amount of data Tesla is collecting in this regard and its possible applications beyond fsd. Pretty interesting stuff
Musk hasn't moved far right. The loudest voices on the left have fallen off the scale. A traditional, old school liberal is now considered far right by these lunatics.
Do you think that mainframes have been surpassed by personal computers.
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Mainframes can handle loads of data that PCs cannot. But PCs/microchips do an awful lot now.Do you think that mainframes have been surpassed by personal computers.
They are used for different purposes. PC's cannot do the work of mainframes, even now.
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Musk has moved far right. He tweets far right wing conspiracy theory nonsense, rants about transgendered people and said he might vote for Trump even after all the illegal behavior. Meanwhile, he doesn't seem to be bothered by craziness on the right, of which there's a lot.
Glad you said it. The libs of today are mainly ivy elites who are in bed with big corporations, especially big food and big pharma who have a green light from the government to fatten and destroy the health of people only to be fixed by more harmful drugs, are war mongers in bed with the neocons they once loathed, and most puzzlingly, hate free speech. Lots of classical liberals hate today's left in control of their former party. Go against any one of their beliefs or even dare to ask a question, you get labeled as right wing or an asset of Putin. The right has its own problems, mainly the orange lunatic, but still seen as a better alternative to whatever is going on currently. I maintain hope that a moderate will emerge that represents the politically homeless like me. Musk got labeled right when he dared to pull Twitter out of bed with the Democrats and decided that Twitter has gone overboard with banning and censoring reasonable dissenting voices.
