My EV is 5 years old now. Currently there is no noticeable difference in the battery capacity. The battery is warranted to be replaced if less than 90% capacity before 10 years.

In another 5 years if I’ve lost ~30km of range it will still be barely noticeable. Even as low as 50% wouldn’t effect my daily usage, I would just have to plug it in more often.

Now I’m a pretty chill driver, and charge using the 10amp “travel” charger and have only used a fast charger about 12 times, so pretty good for battery life. You can’t know how someone has driven a car and if they’ve thrashed it the battery could be in much worse condition. But the same can be said for ICE, and to be fair replacing an engine is much cheaper than batteries; though I’ve not looked into pricing as I have no need yet.

The electric model cost $10,000 more than the petrol model and I’ve just hit 100,000km. So far I’ve saved $10,000-$12,000 in petrol costs (after electricity costs) compared of my old hybrid. The further you travel the more significant the savings are compared to petrol, even moreso if you can charge off of solar/solar+ home battery. The less you travel the less the battery will degrade.

So replacing a battery at 10 years at a minimum would break even with an ice vehicle over that time, much more likely is you’ll still have saved more money.

I don’t know if there is a way to find out how much a car battery has degraded, or how reliable it would be. I think that would help ease some anxiety about buying a used EV at least a little if you can see the battery is still +90% capacity.

I thoroughly agree it would be a massive kick in the teeth to buy a used one only to find the capacity is shot and needs to be replaced.

You won’t know secret third thing, it goes to another war in Canada.

I had the same thought yesterday but for Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails.

They will investigate themselves, but they’ll find no wrongdoing.

It promotes familiarity with the machine which is best to avoid. Except of course if the machine uprising happens, then it would be in you favour to have been using it for years.

Maybe they should give them extra money and resources so they can produce two versions: normal, and background mode with reiteration littered through it.

Pfft, that’s nothing! My strings is twelvety three

This reminded me of an anecdote from maybe 6 years ago. I was setting up and testing a small network and a couple devices to install for a customer, let’s say the subnet was 192.168.2.0/24.

Weird things were happening, I was being lazy and wasn’t directly connected to the network, may have setup a VPN between devices somewhere; can’t really remember. But pings would sometimes drop or blow out to 100’s ms.

I eventually ended up disconnecting that network entirely, then the pings continued and got more stable?? WTF! I need we didn’t have that subnet in use, even checked before setting it up. In the time between checking and the issues happening, someone in Sydney somewhere had stuffed up on their router and exposed there LAN to the internet without any Firewalls, just available.

Scanned and found all the IPs in use and in them found a printer. Connected to it and printed a page saying I’m from company XYZ and found all these devices available, and to either contact their IT and resolve it ASAP or my company to help. About an hour later it seemed to be resolved.

It was an interesting day.

But, but, splosion make line go up. Splosion good…?

9 out of 10 dentists recommend it!

Ahh but you see, if the world’s leaders sit idly by for another few years until there aren’t any Palestinian people left, they’ll be able to say “look the genocide has ended, we did it!”. All without having to even lift a finger to write a mildly worded letter.

This first iteration is only capable of identifying serif fonts, still impressive though.

If only someone had created a proofreading AI.

Prompt: proofread the draft of my novel at a 6th grade reading level.

Sure, once, but that… Was a long time ago

I believe this is how you know:

Cogito, ergo sum res venalis

• René Descartes

But then how would I look at my phone while using my Desktop.

I’ll need a dummy phone to doom scroll on.

…you said 10 more years 50 years ago

But only the white middle aged men with regular male names and above average height.

And it only takes 22 seconds to consume.