Scientists that gets paid? Buddy, everybody gets paid, but scientists don’t get paid nearly as much as oil executives and coal barons do.

This is very common disinformation and FUD promoted and spread by the fossil fuel industry to discourage people from buying electric vehicles, and to just muddy up the waters in general.

Sorry, you’re an ignorant fool who’s being willfully deceived by rich, greedy people who have zero regard for your and your family’s future or health.

10% of the driving NOW - that percentage is increasing every year. It used to be only 2% just a handful of years ago.

I can’t go through your entire diatrabe of garden variety often debunked swarm of negativity (it’s already past 1AM here and I’m too tired), so I’ll just say that electrification is still rapidly ongoing, and you shouldn’t judge tomorrow by the state of today.

The benefit here is when idling, apparently.

Yeah, imagine how many shit overly heavy, thirsty crappy ass hybrids with double power trains and even more failure points you could make, instead of switching over to clean electric-only vehicles.

Well one of the e-tron models (the earliest one, IIRC) goes under the (not very flattering) moniker “fat e-tron”, so this seems accurate... :P

Regen braking recovers kinetic energy and puts it back into the battery pack for increased range. Why wouldn’t you want that? Being disinterested is irrational.

It actually doesn’t increase range, it decreases range versus just freewheeling/rolling on inertia. If you’re one-pedaling, the motors are either powering the wheels, or regen braking. There’s no coasting middle ground.

Omg and I thought only EVs caught fire spontaneously! *rolleyes* Maybe some people are simply full of shit, who could have known! :/

Issue with the driver?

You should note that a high and rising percentage of EVs sold now use batteries that are essentially not susceptible to thermal runaway. The more volatile LNMC battery chemistries are becoming aimed more and more towards high performance vehicles, while mass-market vehicles increasingly use cells from the safer,…

Weell yeah, because you know, physics, and inertia. That’s the thing that crushes up cars like they’re beer cans, and kills people.

Kotaku has featured A Content since its founding, so nothing new here. :P

Yes it’s certainly startling she turns out to be the villain (spoiler alert, sorry), but to me the reasoning why seems clear enough. You have a character with a history of mental illness reaching back to the original comics from what I understand, who goes through some extremely traumatic events in her life starting…

Had the good fortune to fly in a 747 once in my life across the atlantic, back in 2006. It was pretty noisy, but the sheer size of the cabin was glorious. You could get up and stretch your legs for a bit with no problems at all. KLM staff was excellent, they handed out free soft drinks whenever you asked. Tomato juice…

That’s your interpretation, I don’t necessarily agree with it (spoiler alert: I don’t.)

The book corrupted her. The book corrupts everything it touches, seemingly. Or well, did, up until Wanda destroyed them all, as it would seem.

Actual reason: people are fucking morons. Or even more accurately, people are fucking morons who can’t follow the simplest of instructions when all they can think of is “I want to get on the plane, I I I me me me now now now.”