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$180K per car to manufacture is really quite expensive!
How did they manage to make it so expensive per car?!
Have you seen their vacuums?
The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle
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Well he's never called someone a pedo on Twitter at least.
No, he's a more old school English type, who would do this https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leave-voter-james-dyson-h... and this https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-dyson-singapore/b... and this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/dyson-will-not...
I'm not sure how any of those are in any way comparable to calling an innocent man a pedo in front of thousands of followers.
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No, he's a more old school English type, who would do this https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leave-voter-james-dyson-h... and this https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-dyson-singapore/b... and this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/dyson-will-not...
I'm not sure how any of those are in any way comparable to calling an innocent man a pedo in front of thousands of followers.
You're right, they're more polite, and yet much more consequental bad actions.
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No, he's a more old school English type, who would do this https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leave-voter-james-dyson-h... and this https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-dyson-singapore/b... and this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/dyson-will-not...
The subtitle on that last one is "Engineering firm has been told by the government that their services are no longer required" - not sure why that is Dyson's fault!
Of course there is more to the story. But think of it as "Sir, you need to leave this establishment" as merely the punchline to the tale.
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If they had gone with MEB, what would they be bringing to the table? Dyson's bread & butter is electric motor design and you're suggesting they outsource that and instead build a shell around someone else's platform? Arguably that's their weakness. Tesla started out with retrofitting their electric drive train into a Lotus Elise, that approach would have allowed Dyson to do what it does best.
> what would they be bringing to the table? Brand and design.
So what would be the point?
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#96Strange there's no mention of the solid-state batteries, that may have given it an edge over competition.
I was hoping on some news on those, too. Only this sentence on the page that's interesting. Quote: The aluminium battery pack casing was flexible in design to allow for a variety of possible sizes and types of battery cell solution to be fitted throughout the life of the vehicle platform without the need for any significant re-engineering.
Such a flexible design in a part that is out of view and non-serviceable by the owner only adds avoidable costs to the total costs of manufacturing each car.
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A good example of intelligent appliances would be like my Samsung washing machine... It had an error, so I called their support line. They asked me to hold down two buttons simultaneously, then put my phone near the door. It let out a 10s or so digital song, the kind that modems did in the 90s - that gave them an entire diagnostic, age, model etc, and they sent someone around as they knew I couldn't fix it. Pretty am…
A counter example of an unintelligent washing machine: My Whirlpool emitted a diagnostic puddle of water underneath it. I Googled the seal, ordered it from an independent supplier, and installed it myself. It is now on its 25th year of use with us, and cost less than $400 when new.
While I, too, am using an ancient washing machine in my home, it's not exactly an apples to apples comparison. New washing machines use far less water and electricity than their older counterparts. They also remove more water during their spin cycle, reducing the amount of drying necessary. And if your dryer uses natural gas (as mine does), a newer washing machine will reduce your use of natural gas as well.
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> Things like app connectivity are after thoughts and not core to their products. Good! God help us the day something like a fan or a vacuum cleaner needs "app connectivity".
A good example of intelligent appliances would be like my Samsung washing machine... It had an error, so I called their support line. They asked me to hold down two buttons simultaneously, then put my phone near the door. It let out a 10s or so digital song, the kind that modems did in the 90s - that gave them an entire diagnostic, age, model etc, and they sent someone around as they knew I couldn't fix it. Pretty am…
The downside to "intelligent" appliances is that the added complexity of that intelligence is not free, it adds a lot of new potential failure modes, particularly when they are connected to a network. The benefits to adding it have to be significant to be worth it, at least for me to consider purchasing a smart appliance over a dumb one.
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#100Vehicles are weird. I feel like we try to jam all use cases into one, when I really need three different things: 1/ To go to work and back. Same route everyday. Not very long. Currently use a bicycle, but I’ve used mass transit for these very common in-out routes in the past. 2/ Small local journeys. I can’t collect 6kg of wheat from the local farm with a bike or a bus. Taxi is viable if I could get them to wait 20 m…
How about a battery electric cargo bicycle? Like a Tern GSD ($$$) or Radwagon ($)? The tern gsd can carry 180 kg of cargo and has detachable batteries, so that at least gives you the option of bringing extra batteries for long range. Or haul people or wheat.
I already like the sound of the GSD — Get Stuff Done, apparently.