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Your Polestar 2 battery is based on battery technology that is 5+ years old. Right now you can buy a BYD car in China that charges at up to 1500kW - close to 10x the peak charging …

Isn't what you are describing known as Zonal Architecture (as opposed to Domain Architecture) and supposed to be the hot new way of architecting automotive platforms? Tesla was pio…

That's something that should be possible with the upcoming Workflow feature. Some details can be found in the November Recap blog post. https://immich.app/blog/2025-november-recap

They announced that Nano Banana will be integrated in Google Photos a couple weeks ago. https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-google-product...

My source is an article from the ADAC, a German automobile association. https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/elektromobilitaet/lade... They say 100-300W for the onboard electronic…

One drawback of charging on an 120v (or 230v) outlet is efficiency. While charging, the energy consumption of an electric car can easily reach 300-400 watts. When you're only charg…

> Model 3/Model Y has been the most sold new car in California and a few other areas, selling more than the usual toyotas and hondas. Model Y is going to be the most sold car model…

Only about 7000 of those are HPCs (150kW+)[1]. This proposed law mandates at least 150kw per charge point, so it would more than triple the amount of HPC charge points. In general,…

I wish Google Maps had an option to avoid small roads that are not made for transit traffic. I live next to such a road, and the amount of cars using it has grown considerably over…

The problem is more that the Swiss Plateau (where most of these tunnels would be built) is very densely populated. There's just not enough room for a whole new road network to be b…

Well, he for sure pissed Garmin off with his review of the Garmin RCT715[0] (the bike camera/radar/light thingy). At least in my case, his review stopped me from upgrading from an …

Yes, I unplugged it.

Just yesterday I noticed that a device installed by the cable TV company in my house (a WISI VX 2030 amplifier, according to the sticker) was warm to the touch. Measuring its power…

I have a networked all-in-one HP printer that can scan to a network share on my NAS. On the NAS, I set up a watcher script that runs OCRMyPDF [1] on any incoming PDFs. That gives m…

he has proven time and time again that anything with a keyway can be picked quickly and discretely by anyone with a little knowledge (and the sometimes the right tools) While it is…

Arianespace fat-fingering an Ariane 5 into the wrong orbit recently didn't exactly help with my anxiety... https://spacenews.com/bad-coordinates-led-ariane-5-astray-la... (OTOH, I'…

They say otherwise on their blog[1]: " Clearinghouses are SEC-registered organizations that act as the central depository for securities. They keep a record of the stocks owned thr…

The fact that Robinhood had to emergency-raise $3billion to be able to put up the collateral with their clearing houses should be enough indication that a lot of retail traders wer…

> causing oxidizer rich combustion which eventually burnt up the engines Which sometimes is called "engine rich exhaust". I love these sarcastic terms in rocketry. RUD, lithobrakin…

Exactly, that's what I like about pyscript: it is a great alternative for simple YAML automations, but it also allows for complex logic that would be impossible or very cumbersome …

There's also PyScript, a custom component that allows you to write automations in Python. The docs have a bunch of nice examples that give you an idea how it looks. https://github.…

I got this one: https://aliexpress.com/item/4000917130635.html They are also available on Amazon under a bunch of different brands, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/LENCENT-1080p60fps-D…

I recently tried to get a setup similar to this with a Fujifilm X-T20 I had lying around, remembering that Fujifilm announced similar software. Alas, that software only works with …