Electric Vehicles

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Not a huge fan of preview posts, but the solid state battery is significant AF. Let's see how this pans out.

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In 2024, a small electric SUV with a range of 300 miles produces 52% fewer life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than a comparable gasoline vehicle. Electric vehicles (EVs) have no tailpipe emissions, but nearly three quarters of the GHG emissions for a gasoline vehicle come from the tailpipe (vehicle operation). Although GHG emissions from the production and distribution of electricity is about double that of gasoline production and distribution (149 vs. 75 gCO2e/mile), that difference is more than offset by the tailpipe GHG emissions from the gasoline vehicle. Battery production adds an additional 30 gCO2e/mile over the life of the EV but is negligible for the gasoline vehicle. Increasing efficiencies for battery and vehicle production will lower GHG emissions in the future. Also, GHG emissions from electricity production are projected to be lower as the United States moves toward decarbonization of the grid.

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Tesla uberbulls often like to say that Tesla is the leader in self-driving because while it doesn’t have a commercially available autonomous ride-hailing service like Waymo, it doesn’t rely on geo-fencing and mapping like Waymo.

They argue that if Tesla wanted to do that it could, but it prefers to focus on an autonomous system that could drive anywhere, anytime, without mapping.

However, it is questionable that they could do it if they wanted to because they still haven’t done it on a project much simpler than Waymo’s operations in Pheonix and other cities: the tunnels under Las Vegas.

The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is The Boring Company’s first full-scale loop project currently in commercial use.

Elon Musk’s tunneling start-up completed the $50 million project in just over a year.

A Boring Company Loop system consists of tunnels in which Tesla electric vehicles travel at high speeds between stations to transport people within a city. The Boring Company said that it was working with Tesla to use its self-driving system inside those tunnels, which would enables to get rid of the current drivers and lower the cost of operation.

However, 2 years and several more tunnels connected to the Loop later, The Boring Company is still using drivers in the tunnels.

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https://archive.is/p6nUd

I'm still yet to understand the benefit of tariffs.

At this rate, he's gonna crash the whole company.

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Why are people getting bigger vehicles? It makes no sense.