I don't see any information about whether they will bring these into the US. They'd sell well here. It will be hard to make a profit on these, because you can't have much overhead.
But clearly, a less than $20k ev with ~200-220 miles, a city car, would sell very well in the us. It would open up EV ownership to more groups. Imagine what a 2 or 3 year old one would sell for? Those used ones would again open up EVs to new groups.
The longest drive I ever do is 350 miles (most days I drive less than 10 miles) so a cheap EV with slightly more than 200 mile range would be perfect. I already own a steam deck and have books on my phone so stopping to charge once or twice is the opposite of a problem. Less than 20k would be crazy, that's the price I paid for my Fit 8 years ago
I too have long assumed that EVs would appeal more to city dwellers but apparently it's the opposite.
City drivers can pull over anytime they like for gas topups and only when they've driven the car, so setting up charging infrastructure and having to plug in every day without failure just to remove gas stops makes little sense to them. OTOH, gas stations for rural house owners are travel destinations of its own, and they welcome offgrid home charging and everyday full tanks.
Short range grocery getter EV exists in the middle ground of those extremes, only in locations where it's rural enough that finding gas is annoying enough, while at the same time daily driving range is short enough that the car's range covers it.
Only reason urban citizens would prefer EVs is if they have specific opinions about personally owning ICE device, but those people aren't the biggest majority.
An EV would start to get pretty irritating if your only option is street parking. I have a garage I could charge one in right now, but most of the people on my block don’t. And if I wanted to move I may not end up with one.
Actually owning an EV in Vienna for a bit more than a year that has turned out to be a non issue. We charge all our city driving range during curb parking around the city. Parking at a charger is actually easier since non charging vehicles are banned and fairly cheap since regular parking would also incur a cost.
I'd love to agree because I like kei cars and small cars in general, but I don't think they would. These cars on US roads would be dwarfed by SUVs and pickups, and Americans have voted with their wallets that they don't want small cars, which is why manufacturers have almost uniformly stopped making them (most don't even make regular mid-size sedans anymore).
A 200 mile range would cover 99% of American commutes. The real issue is that Americans buy their cars for road trips. Even if it’s only once every year or two and it would be way cheaper to buy a cheaper car and rent a more capable one for the road trips, people generally won’t do it.
This movie was in the second trilogy, "once upon a time", Once Upon a Time in the west, Duck you Sucker, and Once Upon a Time in America. And from wikipedia there's a much better and longer original European cut that is 3 hours 49 mins instead of the 2 hours 19 minute cut. I can't figure out how to stream that.
They now test them doing things like going 70 mph without stopping, got 270 miles https://insideevs.com/reviews/598000/ford-f150-lightning-ran.... EPA doesn't drive them that steadily that fast on their test run. The new Tesla model 3 (highland) gets 370 miles on that test.
This is a rebadged chevy blazer ev, except it (1) doesn't have onstar (yay!), (2) had android auto and apple carplay unlike GM cars.
What's the best tradeoff for cost vs range?
It's about $60k before discounts. The tesla model 3 highland (recent refresh) can do an amazing 370 miles at 70mph. The only problem is it's a tesla.
Out of spec drives until the battery is dead. They haven't tested the honda prologue yet.
My wife drives a ‘23 Blazer RS (non-EV). We killed OnStar as soon as the trial ended. Still has CarPlay. At $44k with all the discounts (my dad is a GM retiree), it was hardly a bargain. I can’t imagine paying $60K for the EV version of it. Don’t get me wrong it’s a nice car, but it’s a Chevy.
Well of course dealers don't want to sell you EVs. They have far far less maintenance than an ICE car. There are less options on many of them. And the biggest reason is that they know their customers who try 'non-dealer' sellers like Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid are far happier overall. And the EVs plus dealers are clearly not matching the good things that come from Tesla or Rivian. Another example, there's basically no need for an annual service visit. The dealers are trying to make kind of silly service visits, charging $100 to rotate the tires. https://www.insideevsforum.com/community/index.php?threads/s...
There are problems with no-dealer companies, when they are in initial stages it can be hard to get repairs if there is no local service center. Rivian is still growing a lot and can get behind, Tesla seems to have basically built out enough service in a lot of places but also can get behind. But even real auto dealers can get behind too.
I have a Tesla and my interaction with the local service center has been pretty much as good as my prior interactions with a trusted mechanic.
The dealer model is just regulatory capture. It's a dumb middle man that provides no value beyond what the manufacturer can do. It's only there because dealers tend to be over represented in state and federal officials. So, of course, they keep and create regulations which penalize direct sales.
It shouldn't be amazing but it is endlessly surprising to me that authorities cannot stop abusing their authority to spy on their fellow citizens. The articles doesn't clarify whether this is a case of "shootings are happening right now and we are spying on the reporters for a day or two because there is an urgent need to protect people and maybe their sources will help us", or whether it was "we were irritated that they figured some things out, it was an easy lazy way to try to find out who was giving them info".
Authorities will spy on us when given the opportunity for expediency. With everyone carrying around phone/tracking device, your recent vintage car comes with one and then there are just things like tagging devices, apple tags etc.
What we need are serious penalties for this spying, but ha ha we are going in the opposite direction. I'm not even in the UK, but I figure authorities in the US are doing this kind of thing too. They try to get text messages, all kinds of surveilance is going on.
- "I figure authorities in the US are doing this kind of thing too"
It's endemic, and coincidentally there was a bill that failed in the US senate just last week that was meant to put to a halt to it—Wyden's "Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act",
Every institutions #1 priority is to amass power and perpetuate itself. Of course the violence arm of the state engages in extralegal surveillance and extralegal intelligence gathering and extralegal violence to these ends of course it curries favor with the arms of government it seeks to ally itself with by offering to do so on their behalf on a limited basis.
Speaking about the police specifically, or perhaps more generally the executive branch of the state, the only thing that checks this power is the risk of them doing something that so threatens the populace or other institutions that they ally against them. The point at which this check starts becoming a realistic possibility explains the variance in volume and forms this bad behavior takes from country to country, culture to culture, etc.
This article is about the PSNI, a documentary released in 2017, and surveillance in 2018. While the history between NI, the rest of the UK, and the Republic of Ireland is obviously relevant, it’s a bit of a stretch to reduce this to the relationship between the UK and Ireland.
It's really not. The existence of NI as part of the UK is not something that Irish nationalists have historically been very happy with. They aren't in charge, and the people who are in charge are scared shitless of them ever getting truculent again.
And they try to pre-empt it in the only way that they know how.
I’m aware of the broad history, and I’m not claiming the PSNI is particularly neutral or otherwise unwilling to engage in these tactics. However, discourse that reduces the PSNI abusing power to a UK vs. Ireland conflict doesn’t
promote holding the appropriate features of society and institutions accountable as they should be.
You misspelled gangsters, terrorists, and thugs who murdered civilians willingly. I'll say the same about the RUC, which at its worst was a facade for loyalist paramilitaries. But let's not pretend a revival of the Troubles will do anything or that the UK wouldn't hand over NI if a durable majority wanted it that way.
And yet, we as civilians cannot resist just handing that power over to them.
What's the solution? People just don't care about civil liberties, if it means the possibility of preventing every perceivable harm to protected members of society (think of the children).
> Birney and McCaffrey were arrested in 2018 over the alleged theft of material used in the documentary from Northern Ireland's police ombudsman and claimed they were subject to covert surveillance before and after the release of the film.
The PSNI overreacted in this case over concerns that information was leaking from the police regulator. Keep in mind that at the time of the documentary's release, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (the PSNI's predecessor organisation) was undertaking a massive decades-long counter-terrorist operation that involved suppressing terrorist organisations on both sides of the conflict, and that many of these terrorist organisations still exist and remain heavily involved in organised crime.
While the PSNI acted illegally in these raids, it's easy to see that their motivation stemmed from a need to investigate any leaks, which, if they had existed, would almost certainly have put lives (informants) at risk.
It's not always some grand conspiracy. At least in the UK, it's usually honest people doing their best and getting it wrong.
The Peelers have historically not been known for their honesty when interacting with Catholics. Racism serves as an institutional tool for harassment and the justification of power over certain groups. There is no genuine honesty in these practices, even if they are ostensibly used to prevent violence.
> their motivation stemmed from a need to investigate any leaks
It is 100% of the time motivated from a desire to investigate leaks and find sources. If you think this is a justification, you will always be in favor of the surveillance of journalists.
> It's not always some grand conspiracy. At least in the UK, it's usually honest people doing their best and getting it wrong.
If they were honest, they'd admit that they neither believe in journalism, nor the protection of journalists' sources. Some do admit that, but most don't.
Perhaps removing the informant from the field would be a less productive but legal solution to preserve their life?
I don’t think non-secret police has the right to overpass it’s rights even for any good with honest sentiment. How useful is a legal framework that can be trespassed in case of lives at risk, in a violent context where people get murdered?
We should refrain to call conspiracy easily but if I would be caught, "honest people doing their best" is how I’d try to defend myself.
I saw your recent post on running Llama 3.3 70B on a m2 pro 64 gb. Do the many variants of apple silicon alternatives with varying numbers of cpus, gpus, and neural engines matter that much for how fast these llms can generate tokens, answer questions? More hw is always better, but what can we say how performance scales with the many different choices?
64gb ram is crucial, after that, need 1+ tb storage, and then?
I don't know. I believe memory bandwidth matters, and I got the impression that the M4 series isn't yet as good as the M2 was on that front, but I'm half-remembering things I've heard here.
define political violence acts? Taking pictures of someone doing something that might be awful to expose that they are doing something awful is what I imagine these people do. That doesn't feel like what I'd call political violence. P.V. would be trying to shoot someone, maybe bringing up a crowd to chase someone away because you don't like what they are saying. You know, threatening.
Trespassing is what they are doing if they come in and take pictures when they are supposed to be there on private property. Can you explain what you mean here?
Or maybe it's kind of like there were more than 4 different plugs for mobile phones to charger (lightning for apple, several variants of USB, some weirdo proprietary, then usb-c). A lot of people like me have 3 there way splitters (micro-usb, lightning, usb-c), so I can charge any phone.
