• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    21 days ago

    Your mileage may vary.

    1000km range is fucking stupid. No one should be driving that far at once, and they rest of the time you waste energy and money just carrying around thousands of pounds of batteries.

    Then there is the fun of a car crash and shorting out over 120KW of energy.

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        20 days ago

        in non shit hole countries, driving that far without breaks is illegal.

        in shit holes, over 40,000 are killed and countless more maimed for life on highways. Every year.

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      20 days ago

      How much is the average used by daily drives? What about the 90% percentile. Something like 1000km must be on the extremely tail that. The only distance I can think of 1000km is going to and back from São Paulo to Rio.

      A 1000km range is a complete waste of resources.

    • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      1000km range is fucking stupid. No one should be driving that far at once

      I’ve done it several times. It happens.

      the rest of the time you waste energy and money just carrying around thousands of pounds of batteries.

      It would certainly be interesting if EV’s had a means to load or unload batteries for more or less capacity. If the majority of the time you’re driving local it would certainly be better having a smaller battery pack loaded and then load more when you need the range. We’re a long way from being able to do that unfortunately

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        20 days ago

        When the selfdriving feature gets even better,

        you must be excited about this guy showing up next month.

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          20 days ago

          Self driving is absolutely a thing. FULL self driving like what Tesla tries to bullshit about is a way off.