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I'm trying my hardest to somehow summarize this story as a net positive, but to no avail. To me this reads like a badly written propaganda piece.

supervisory board of VW has 20 members, state of Lower Saxony appoints 2 (as a minority shareholder), workforce elects 7 among themselves, and 3 are trade union representatives als…

My favorite impact that I've had on my organization was the "no agenda, no meeting". It became a meme, minutes before the agenda-less meeting was supposed to take place someone wou…

(I'm going to assume you're serious). Only in the tech bubble could a hobby which is challenging and probably gruesome at certain points, be held against you. In any normal convers…

4680 is a cylindrical cell format, the number you quoted refers to the cell itself, when packaged into a battery with busbars, cooling, etc., the gravimetric density on pack level …

One would expect that a site dedicated to clean energy would know the difference between watts and watthours (i.e. power and capacity), on several occasions it claims that the capa…

have you read the article you linked? this literally repeats the same points I made, I don’t understand what you were trying to say.

That may be true for its fit and finish (panel alignments etc.), but the fact that they mastered vertical integration and supply chain management in less than 10 years is beyond am…

I don't know where you get your information, but you've completely missed what automotive software development looks like. The amount of verification and validation, and the number…

Rimac Technology | Embedded Software Engineer | Onsite or Remote (Croatia/UK or Europe) Rimac Technology is an electric vehicle powerhouse, the Tier 1 supplier behind the world's m…

I'm in automotive, but we have similar requirements to medical. There's no "100% fail proof" solution, it's about determining the modes of failure and addressing them individually …

> Chips also go out of production suddenly (with only a couple years warning...) No they don't, automotive semiconductors suppliers have an "obligation" to manufacture the componen…

Yes, but that's not the e2e efficiency of the hydrogen powertrain, a 120kW hydrogen stack found in Hyundai Nexo is as big as an average petrol engine and its energy efficiency is s…

I'm sure this article only tells 10% of the story from both sides, but the fact remains that some people entrusted him with his money and that his behavior made them uncomfortable,…

I partially agree with your comment, the math is fuzzy, and I'd say that saving 5 minutes per day is absolutely worthless, I don't care about that time, it's a rounding error. Ther…

there's one in my hometown (Zagreb) as well! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Views Here's some blogpost with nice pictures https://punkufer.dnevnik.hr/galerija/gdje-se-u-zagrebu…

Porsche increases stake in Rimac Automobili to 24 per cent https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2021/company/porsche-increas...

It’s not a concern, the more powerful the charger, the better. The devices that are being powered are the ones controlling the charging, the charging brick will derate itself if de…

OEMs use codenames because they're often sending/receiving parts to/from external suppliers, e.g. when driveshafts go around random warehouses and logistics companies they have the…

Not only that! The story behind their newly founded N division is very interesting. They poached a long-time BMW executive Albert Biermann who headed multiple vehicle developments …

You could put me in charge and assuming I really go 100%, I doubt I'd pull it off. Point is, it also takes someone who really wants to and can do it. Also, I'm just a guy on the in…

I work for a tier 1 EV supplier, I've spent 2 months in Hyundai's Namyang R&D center, several weeks at Aston Martin's facilities, and some others, you undersold it by A LOT. Ford, …

Apple has been in and out of the car game for a few years now, with executives coming and going. What I'm about to say will be as meaningful as this hear-say article, but I feel th…

That reminds me of the foreword in the High Output Management, written by Ben Horowitz and Andy Grover's words "only the paranoid survive": “CEOs always act on leading indicators o…