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I think a reasonable summary of the study referenced is that: "AI creates the perception of productivity enhancements far beyond the reality." Even within the study, there were som…

There were vehicle sourcing credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, which are granted per kWh of battery with sufficient domestic mineral content. Was $4,000/vehicle if I recall.

It’s a bad thing if it increases China’s confidence that it can win. Wars are often launched as soon as one side thinks it has a winning strategy that might slip away over time.

In most modern cars, there is a pressure booster in the power brake system, enabling braking force that can overcome the engine’s horsepower and quickly stop the car. But they are …

I found this. https://www.yahoo.com/news/fda-says-marijuana-legitimate-med...

I dunno. Honda doesn’t offer an electric CR-V, but they’re coming out with the Prologue, which is slightly cheaper than the comparable Passport. Passport: $43k Prologue: $48k - $7.…

The treasury would auction off securities—probably short term bills—in excess of the debt ceiling. I am confident that this auction would succeed, in that dealers would be happy to…

The standard works on the other side as well. A Toyota with a NACS plug can charge on the supercharger network, but also other networks that are also adopting the NACS standard. A …

Apparently he has attempted this before, only to require coast guard rescue—exactly as you suggested.

The single most important assumption in this paper is that energy consumption will increase by 2% per year. This kind of exponential growth leads to outlandish estimates for the am…

There’s no reason to think that’s a permanent state of affairs though. Stellantis claims to have better margins than Tesla. Tesla sells a large portion of vehicles in China where t…

The US installed 11.8GW solar last year. That is 453MW/every 2 weeks. :-) Yes, that’s nameplate capacity, so you can’t count on solar to delivery the power to get us over the line …

I saw a Wi-Fi enabled lightbulb today. I cannot think what the use case is for such a device.

Was recently in a fairly new construction house in a very cold climate state that did not have a full basement below the frost line. There was a partial 8’x8’ corner that sunk down…

Are the middle and rear seats in the ID Buzz storable or removable? That was the only thing I remember.

Minivan seems like a great form factor for an EV. Unfortunately, the small number of companies that still make minivans are also the companies that are slowest to adopt EVs.

This is not the way I would do stock valuation. PE is the ratio of future earnings will all its growth to current earnings, discounted. In the future, some of that growth will be i…

Exactly. As an example, a typical 30-year fixed will be halfway paid off after 15 years, and so is about half as sensitive to interest rates as a 30-year interest-only. This should…

It was mainly just the mortgages. The quirk is that they marketed to extremely high-net worth homeowners—I think this is the penthouse condo crowd. In order to attract them, they o…

Primary energy infrastructure planning takes place at a 20-30 year timeframe. GDP for 25 years is nearly $600 trillion USD, so the Master Plan is approximately 1-2% of available re…

I assumed Tesla was at 300, which is pretty close. This might not be the tech for consumer cars though, but one thing I have seen is the enormous proliferation of applications for …

The stats are not crazy for an air battery. But the catch is two-fold. First, are they weighing the battery before or after discharging? Oxidizing will change the weight significan…

Always amusing when the assembly language version is so much terser than the C version.

The bolt uses CCS, and they should be adding the connectors over time. https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/764/tesla-to-add-ccs-conne...