1st Gear: “‘Wait Do We Actually Want These Lithium Mines’

They are consistent, about 1/3 the cost per mile, I don’t need to go out of my way to get it, and the beautiful part of electricity is that you can produce it yourself with a nice array of solar panels on the roof.

So the DA is saying that the defendant wouldn’t accept anything other than a ticket. How about we not exaggerate the situation. The DA knew very well that in court the guilty verdict was 100+ years, probably offered 20+ years in the plea.

It seems to be the case that this guy is at fault for negligence, and should be serving time and never driving a rig again, but that doesn’t meat the point about minimum sentences is invalid. They are bullshit.

His choices were a plea deal, or a ridiculous sentence; that’s not a choice any person should make.  It should have been between a plea and a reasonable sentence.

I like to get a different daily driver every few years so I have some great ones. This is my favorite: In 2008, I had an NA Miata that I decided to sell. It was worth maybe $3,000 at the time. I posted it on Craiglist and got an email from a local eye doctor who specialized in LASIK surgery offering me LASIK in…

Wait, thought you were getting a Nissan not a Tesla?

This should just be the Bronco Sport.

Wait.

If we could just go ahead and add the two teens to some sort of watch list for probable future serial killers, that’d be super.

Charge rate is tied to charging current which is limited by charging conductor size and battery size. You won’t be able to charge a little battery as fast as a big battery, all else equal.

Consumers and journalists need to focus more on charging speed than max range.

it probably says more than he was running a half ass battery repair operation and didnt check his work before powering them on and charging them. and im sure they were the highest quality ebay batteries. im more curious to what his education level was on the subject and what tools he was using for his repairs. we dont…

My dude, you probably drive a car with 12 gallons of highly combustible, flammable, and potentially explosive fuel in a huge tank underneath the trunk. Cars aren’t really safe regardless of their energy medium.

It doesn’t have much to say about it other than the potential for destruction of the chemistry during a thermal runaway event. These are almost definitely abused and poorly made with garbage battery management, no thermal management, and the cheapest chargers on the fastest charge settings. Only the cheapest electric…

All of which have more sophisticated battery packs and charging systems that are not subject to the repeated HARD battery discharge cycles of an R/C airplane or car battery. And fast charging for that matter, since you don’t want to sit around waiting before you can fly again. And they are subject to a lot more…

The fire source in li-ion cells is the organic electrolyte, not the metal which is ionized. The heat/ignition source is the electrical potential. Have a failure and you have a fuel fire with a built-in re-ignitor.

I even store (and charge) the batteries for my R/C airplanes outside. Even those little things can be scary if they pop off (and I have seen it happen at the airfield), and they are tiny compared to those in a scooter or eBike.

In NYC there just has to be multiple stairways down, even if they’re both inside. The ones bolted to the outside were to make old buildings get up to code, since it would be ungodly expensive to try to put in a new interior stairwell.

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