Unless you’re travelling 200+ miles every day and assuming a 20% reduction in range after 8-10 years, most EVs start with ~225-250 miles of range, so at 80%, which is pretty much the realistic worst case scenario, that’s still around 180-200 miles of range.
Plus, they don’t need oil changes/spark plugs/coils/etc., electric is cheaper than gas per mile by usually 2-4x, they don’t need brakes or calipers hardly because of regen braking, and so much more.
Ioniq 5 and 6 also suffer from ICCU failures like crazy and other gremlins in their high voltage system. I was going to buy an Ioniq 5, but this steered me clear of the brand for now.
The Kia Soul EV seems fine, but isn’t it super range limited like the Nissan Leaf used to be? I haven’t looked at them in a while, but last I knew their Soul EV only got ~120-150 miles of range.
Diesels don’t run for shit anymore. All of the DPF and EGR systems kill them after 150-200k max. Gone are the days of the 7.3L Ford or 5.9 Cummins that were bulletproof. I still drive around my gasser 7.5L in my 95 F250, but it’s a gas guzzling beast.
As for range loss on cold, that’s true for LFP batteries. Not NMC, which is what most cars use. Range loss in the winter is mostly from climate control, but unless your car is using a resistive heater, this isn’t hardly any range loss.
Batteries don’t usually just “die” though. You don’t have to even think about replacing it. Even if a 250 mile EV loses 30% of its capacity after 8-10 years (which is higher than most besides older gen Nissan Leafs), that means it can still drive 175 miles.
The reason Americans don’t buy EVs is because all EVs sold in America are:
There are very few basic, cheap EVs on the American market. Tesla is really the only one and most of us refuse to support that prick.
I just bought a used 2023 Bolt EUV a few months ago. Absolutely love the thing. I got it for $15.5k and it still has 5 years of warranty. And GM decided “hey…you know that car you love? We’re going to stop making it because it doesn’t have the margins our big boi SUV gas guzzlers have. Sorry and fuck you”.
Supposedly Apple claims to encrypt it at rest and in transit.
While I loathe AI bullshit, Apple is at least prioritizing local, on-device AI and end-to-end encryption with their cloud AI services.
I’ll still be passing on any of this bullshit, but I appreciate that they tried to make a less problematic version.
Toys for Bob is making this game, the people who made the original trilogy remake. It’ll probably be done well. They seem to get it.
Indie Devs: Allow us to introduce ourselves
Indie Devs: Allow us to introduce ourselves
If your networking gear isn’t running open source and/or non-cloud connected software, it isn’t yours.
Yeah this is still a problem.
How long do you think it’ll take before Nintendo adds a software check so you can’t have the European version outside of Europe beyond short term travel?
KDE Plasma. It’s the most feature rich “just works” DE there is. GNOME doesn’t even have fucking maximize and minimize buttons by default without adding them via GNOME Tweaks.
I used to be a Cinnamon/Linux Mint lover, but their slow implementation of Wayland, Window Scaling, and certain other annoyances like their split NetworkManager GUI between GNOME’s UI and the native NetworkManager UI made me switch.
My games are less “nobody liked it” and more “a lot of people have never heard of or tried it”:
Ori and the Blind Forest
and
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
They’re absolute masterpieces. It’s like playing a video game version of a beautiful oil painting with incredibly tight movement controls. And the soundtrack…MY GOD is it good.
It’s one of those game series that I wish I could memory wipe to replay again. Sure, the story is a bit simplistic, but it hits the notes it needs to without dragging.
It’s one of the best Metroidvania games ever made, but it kind of fell into obscurity similar to other masterpieces like Titanfall 2.
I got a free, second hand Framework 13. It had a dead motherboard, but was in excellent shape otherwise. I bought a newer gen motherboard and some second hand RAM to move from DDR4 to 5. Kept everything else.
Works great. Only paid ~$500 for parts.
Krafton is paying out $3 for every $1 earned. They made a shit deal.
There are some types of vehicles that don’t work currently for pure EVs. Long distance hauling vehicles, for example. Mostly because most EV charging stations are not pull through, so hauling a trailer while charging is a PITA. A plug-in hybrid would be perfect for this application, though.
There are also many people who live in places where charging at home isn’t practical. That’s thankfully changing, though.
Most people, though, should be able to drive an EV in America. I drive a 2023 Bolt and it’s fucking awesome.
For sure and fair enough.
I just feel the need to remind people when they mention degradation as a concern, that a degraded battery after a decade doesn’t just turn into a paperweight. It just goes slightly less far.