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Tesla already heats the battery in this way- it essentially just puts opposing fields into the motor to generate excess heat even when not moving. https://electrek.co/2017/08/24/te…

Most of the ones in Pennsylvania are at Wawa or Sheetz. I wish they all were.

https://insideevs.com/news/734705/ev-chargers-cash-cow-nearb... Relevant article from today referencing a recent MIT study. As someone who owns multiple EVs, it's about the fact th…

from the article: "Every Base64 digit represents 6 bits of data. There are 8 bits in a byte, and the closest common multiple of 8 and 6 is 24. So 24 bits, or 3 bytes, can be repres…

For anyone with Firefox trying to open the link- it seems slow or broken in FF. Use Chrome and it loads instantly.

I'm surprised by the reaction to this article. 1. The range is set by the EPA. They are the ones that do the testing and validate the claims. The EPA should fix their range guideli…

Using $10,000 as an example. Assuming super expensive fuel and terrible efficiency... Gas car - 20 miles/gallon, $4.00/gallon ($4.00/20 = $0.20/mile. $10,000/$0.20 = 50,000 miles) …

I'm not sure why you think having a large fleet of vehicles is problem. Rental car companies already exist. As far as fueling/charging- Even if you had to pay a few people in the s…

I think all of this discussion about whether or not LIDAR or cameras are better misses the point that really matters- Will cameras actually be good enough to get the job done? If t…

If it is infinite then yes. We don't know that the universe is infinite.

The real problem is, how do you actually design a test that will catch these issues. If you have 3 crashes in millions of miles, you are pretty unlikely to find those errors during…

As a person who just built a chicken fortress in my back yard, how did they get in?

He is also not taking into account the transmission fee for each kWh. For me that is 7 cents per kWh which takes my electricity from 12 cents to 19 cents.

Mono's speed is a valid point, but I think that's more of a Mono implementation issue than a C# problem.

Not sure why you think that C# is MS-centric. There is nothing about the language that is particularly MS or Windows specific and the .Net Framework was written to be general and c…

Get Lasik, best thing I ever did.

I think that "Magic Monitor" oversells this. I expected something much more... magic...

plotting x*x1 works but I am not sure why. very interesting graph resulted.

I personally like XAML. What part of it do you think was a let down?

Nearly anything you want

I think that this will be a good move for them provided they can implement it correctly. I think this would only work for machines with multitouch displays.

Do you use a lot of extensions? I have it crash about that much as well. I wonder if we compared extensions if we could pin point which one is causes the crashes.

Found the link: http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-i... This is the exact quote: “On Honeycomb we cheated, we cut the corner of all that smaller device supp…

Even with Launcher Pro, other parts of the OS can be laggy. (Though Launcher Pro is amazing.) But I thing the more accurate term would be choppy. You don't notice it that much unti…