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It’s paying to rebuild infrastructure where the state government has been neglecting.

Besides Texas, none of those states listed are population dense or otherwise rich. In fact the low population density may require the cost per subscriber to be significantly higher because more infrastructure is required to bring service to fewer people. This is a perfect example of good federal government spending.

Is your preference that if these regions can’t afford to build/maintain this infrastructure they should go without?

What bullshit. Putin was actively invading Ukraine in east in the Donbas region through all four years of Trump administration. source

By removing the LFP model they’ve removed all the complexities of how many speakers are in the vehicle and all the other minor changes that were part of the standard range vehicles.

There is barely any difference between the base model and LR. Besides the battery pack itself, the standard range doesn’t have different parts, it just has fewer of them. Also, Tesla could make the base model a “build to order” vehicle meaning there would be no “stale” inventory.

Except the tech companies are among the politicians’ biggest “donors”.

Public cloud computing companies that want to host government IT workloads still have to be Fedramp compliant. Doesn’t matter how much their donors pay, if they aren’t Fedramp compliant they can’t bid for the work.

This doesn’t make sense, because if there aren’t enough models being sold, the cost could be immense for the complexities it creates.

The sales for having the “as low as $X” aren’t recognized against that base model, they’re recognized against getting someone to consider buying any Model 3 “because they only cost $X!” Once you have the buyer interested, it isn’t difficult to increase the price the buyer ultimately pays because they buy the more expensive models.

I’m fine with my 8 layers during winter, tyvm.

Not all of us can live in the warm weather winter geographies like you do where you only need 8 layers. /s

The lack of demand makes sense, at least for the US. The 500e gets just 149 miles of range and starts at $34,095.

Tell me you don’t want to sell EVs without telling me you don’t want to sell EVs.

Isn’t it just a matter of cutting off a couple of undersea cables?

North Korea isn’t an island. It shares a land border with Russia and China. My guess is that North Korea’s main telecom connectivity is through China. If China is cutting off North Korean internet, internet access is the least of its worries.

Ugh, and if you don’t mind selling your soul, she might not be wrong. Owens is apparently worth $5m. source Thats more money than I have.

Today’s CNN is so useless, I’m doubting people will even try to pirate the content. After a year the stats on 12ft.io will still be single digits of use, and thats only because they’re in the habit of reaching good new sources someone didn’t realize they were trying to get over a CNN paywall.

Trump’s thoughts on Pence on Jan 6th:

Its amazing that is cheaper to destroy a disabled tank with thermite from a drone than an munition of some kind.

Here’s a great video going down to the hex level for how to extract the cleartext out of unsaved Notepad files using the temp cache files: video

This has me insanely curious as to where these are common and what are their emissions laws. Time for a trip down a rabbit hole.

I looked into getting one of these or converting my own car to be gasoline and methane about 15 or 20 years ago. Here’s what I learned during that time. I don’t know if any of this legal information is out-of-date now. During the really early days of bi-fuel cars, homebrew cars were very bad polluters because they’d skip the emmisions systems altogether. This changed when the law was put in place requiring catalytic converters on all cars that burned gasoline.

The challenge then with a bi-fuel car was you needed to build an emissions system that is compatible with two entire different fuels, with different combustion products. That is not a small challenge. This is fine for the gasoline side, however, there isn’t really a catalytic converter for methane because the exhaust gasses were actually cleaner than exhaust from a gasoline engine even after passing through the catalytic converter. So there was no market to create a cheap methane catalytic converter because it would have been nearly useless. The law didn’t care though and there was no exception for bi-fuel cars.

There WAS an exception in the law for methane only cars, which is why you could actually buy methane (CNG) cars from major manufacturers like the Honda Civic GX:

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If you wanted to buy a used one of these, you can still find them and fill your CNG tank from your home’s natural gas line.

Autotrader link showing Honda Civic GX for sale

Sure, and I do that too, but that a problem: you’re limited to only a single line of text about 200 characters long

One of my biggest problems with the new notepad is you’ve lost using it as a forgettable scratch space. Anything you put in the new Notepad now gets written to your drive, even if you don’t save the file.

You can’t type or copy/paste anything sensitive into notepad anymore as a temporary space even if you don’t save the file.

From Healthcare.gov (the ACA, aka Obamacare, website):

"Medicaid expansion & what it means for you. Some states have expanded their Medicaid programs to cover all people with household incomes below a certain level. Others haven’t. Whether you qualify for Medicaid coverage depends partly on whether your state has expanded its program.

• In all states: You can qualify for Medicaid based on income, household size, disability, family status, and other factors. Eligibility rules differ between states.
• In states that have expanded Medicaid coverage: You can qualify based on your income alone. If your household income is below 133% of the federal poverty level, you qualify. (Because of the way this is calculated, it turns out to be 138% of the federal poverty level. A few states use a different income limit.)

…AND…

“If your income is low and your state hasn’t expanded Medicaid: If your state hasn’t expanded Medicaid, your income is below the federal poverty level, and you don’t qualify for Medicaid under your state’s current rules, you won’t qualify for either health insurance savings program: Medicaid coverage or savings on a private health plan bought through the Marketplace.”

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States were given money when the ACA was implemented to expand the Medicaid. Many red states turned that money down choosing to let their poor residents continue to not get any healthcare coverage. Was that your friend’s state?

I would see it being similar to having 2 gas tanks in a car where one is for a high octane fuel and the other for a low performance fuel like ethanol.

And these exist completely separate to EVs. They’re called bi-fuel vehichles.

“How Do Bi-fuel Propane Vehicles Work? Bi-fuel propane vehicles typically use a spark-ignited internal combustion engine. A bi-fuel propane vehicle can use either gasoline or propane in the same internal combustion engine. Both fuels are stored on board and the driver can switch between the fuels. The vehicle is equipped with fuel tanks, fuel injection systems, and fuel lines for both fuels” source

They aren’t common in the USA because of they way emissions laws were written which made it uneconomical in many cases for auto makers.

There isn’t the same challenge in EVs, especially where we’re talking the “fuel” is just electricity which is common to both chemistry batteries. I see no challenge for EVs.

My guess is he would use a wheelchair at home where the area is prepared to accommodate it. The exoskeleton is likely slower and harder to wear around the house, but can make him mobile in places where a wheelchair can’t go.

If you meant for a single car, that might be a bit lofty,

What difficulty do you see with this concept in a single car? This technically exists already as there are multiple charge controllers and BMS systems in EVs shipping today, they are just managing different modules of identical chemistries in the single car.