As a furry, this article sucks.

Here’s the BYD blade battery. It’s LFP not NMC lithium and Tesla among others will be using this in their standard range cars. Drive a nail through it and it doesn’t give a shit.

The old rule of thumb is 200lbs = 1mpg. At least store the fuel at home.

Just because you hear the word ‘lithium battery’, don’t think it has much to do with a drill battery. That’s like saying a 50cc moped engine has the same life as a toyota v8. A car battery is using a different chemistry and they are thermally managed as to not be exposed to extreme heat or cold. Car batteries usually…

that new chevy truck has 650km of range. After that kind of drive, a half hour stop for a steak and a beverage sounds fine. But if you can’t charge from home, getting a full charge from a grocery store once per week will be the norm so rapid charging will be key.

I like GM but that engine has a rear mounted toothed timing belt driving the oil pump an you must REMOVE THE TRANSMISSION every 160k to replace it.  NEVER BUY THIS ENGINE. 

Never buy a first year vehicle. Maybe the first 2 years with EV’s. Even Honda and Toyota have a mile long update list for year two. 

Meanwhile, with my new Yamaha Tenere 700, if I do DIY (!) oil changes using yamaha oil and filters they will give me a free 160,000km 20 year warranty on the engine. Save your reciepts.

This is one of the best tracks on Beatsaber.

User created content and mods was the backbone of VRChat. The backlash was so bad they had to disable user ratings on steam as they struggle to contain the shit-storm. And it was the stupidest thing they have ever done. The whole point of VRChat was getting out and creating a bunch of weird stuff for your friends to…

Guess what? GM is cancelling the warranty on a lot of high end vehicles if you flip them within 12 months.

SpaceX crashed a lot of rockets before making rockets that don’t crash. Now they land on their ass with style.

Dammit! That was the tell for ghost cars. Regular exploders had rearward facing exhaust tips. The police package exploders had downward facing exhaust as the cops wanted quieter engines and less chances of exhaust leaking in when they were idling the engine with the hatch open.

LFP batteries are tired, tested and true. A tesla cell has a 1500 cycle count. A LFP battery can go 2000-4000 cycles.

Prediction: Grocery stores will be the new home for rapid EV charging. It is the perfect 30 min weekly stop.

Don’t calculate charge time to full. The last 20% is what takes all the time. Most NMC battery equipped EV’s are normally only charged to 80% unless you are doing a road trip so look at the charge time to 80%. Most cars now can rapid charge to 80%. But wait until next year when chevy starts pumping out the ‘ultium’…

My rental brand new chevy van averaged 22L/100km in city driving (driving gently). That is 10.69MPG for you freedom units sorts. There is nothing acceptable about that in the modern car industry. Especially from us trades users burning several hundred dollars a month in fuel. The van market is an abomination of…

Get a PV array on your roof and your emissions go to zero. And this depends where you live. Here on the left coast of Canuckistan we have over 95% hydro power.

Polestar already has cars on the road and Volvo is backing it.

You are off the mark. The shortage is cobalt and nickel. Half of the electric cars are pivoting to LFP batteries from NMC. That uses none. And there is less lithium in a battery than you think. Around 7kg in a Tesla. There are literal lakes of lithium in south america. Scrape it up with a bulldozer.