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  • government regulation to force companies to begin using a modular system

    Yeah, that’s fair. But the issue is also similar to cell phones.

    Each battery is unique because it needs to fit the unique layout of the vehicle. Not to mention the battery tech is moving so fast, that the chemistry of the battery itself is changing every few years.

    I suspect China’s approach to a vehicle where you hot-swap the batteries instead of charging will be the way it goes. Someone will do it, it will be most $$$ efficient and therefore profitable, and then it will force them all to adopt the same approach.


  • The replacing the battery is simply a supply issue.

    There is such a demand and so little supply, that if you want to buy just a battery (and not the entire car) you are out of luck. They’ll put that battery in a new car and sell it before selling it to you as a replacement.

    But that’s short term. There are a huge number of battery plants already breaking ground and coming online.

    In 2 years or so, the price to replace the battery will be a HELL of a lot lower, and the issue you linked above will be long gone.





  • Ya know, I wouldn’t mind ads,

    If google would just FUCKING LISTEN TO MY CURATING DECISIONS!!

    No, I’m never going to buy a car based off an ad. Block em all.

    No, I’m never switching insurance companies based on an ad.

    No, I’m not interested in mobile games. Ever.

    And yet when I tell google, block this content, not interested, I don’t want to see this particular topic.

    It just doesn’t fucking listen.

    You’d think this would be an absolute GOLD MINE of information that google would want, to better focus their ads,.

    But they just ignore it,

    It’s not about linking people to stuff they are interested in and taking a percentage… it’s about wasting everyone’s fucking time, and then they wonder why people run ad blockers.











  • Nah, you can’t beat the power density of hydraulics and never will unless room temp superconductors become a thing.

    Big Dog from Boston Dynamic was hydraulic.

    Going that size or bigger, hydraulics is a must.

    The reason you don’t see it is hydraulics is a completely different ball game.

    Controls researchers stick with small and electronic, because that’s what they know.

    It’s very rare to find a controls engineer that understands hydraulics.

    And the hydraulics experts out there, don’t have the background for sophisticated control theory.