ironhydroxide @ ironhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

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If your #1 priority is to save the planet and not pollute and you have the money, so of course go for it.

In the pollution case, it's better to keep a viable used ICE car running than to go buy a new EV. But that's completely ignoring the economics of it. Battery is cheap once purchased. And ICE has more maintenance and repair costs.

That kind of range is a different vehicle. My 500e I bought for 7k. It's the perfect commuter.

Do you really NEED to be able to drive 300 miles every day? If so, battery isn't likely for you. And if you don't need to, why cry that it can't?

Personally the newer vehicles have been going more and more into drm on all their things. Even ICE vehicles have been doing it. Locking the consumer into their walled garden parts and service. And when they erroneously decide that your car doesn't make enough profit, they tell you too bad, your 3yr old car isn't supported, you should buy a new one.

Battery technology itself isn't going to have a huge breakthrough reach the electric vehicle consumer in the next 5 years. They'd already have to have viable proof of concept to do that, and nobody has.

Make sure that the car matches your expectations.

Don't trust their range claims, most of the time they are exaggerated and only able to get that range on a perfect day doing constant 45mph without hills.

Do you have a reliable place to charge it? If you don't have a personal parking place, and cannot install a charger at said place, trusting you have the range you need gets difficult, and expensive. As you have to rely on public chargers that are not very reliable, and worse for battery longevity (level 3 chargers)

Speaking of range. What range do you actually NEED? My opinion is the minimum range should be double the normal daily commute, as most level 2 chargers can add ~18 miles/he charging (overnight charge means 144 miles charge). Double your commute gives you a buffer for the heater, or the grocery run after work. For most people this is only 80 miles.... which almost every electric only car can do without issues.

Is the cost worth the vehicle? Buying new is expensive, buying used can be risky. Do your research thoroughly and you'll be able to decide what fits what you NEED (and that answer may easily be a used ICE vehicle instead)

I've had a full electric vehicle for 5+ years now as my daily. But I have always had a personal parking place, with a level 2 charger. I consider electric only to be a commuter car at best. It's not going to be able to do a road trip. And depending on the car and the commute may even not be able to do a grocery run after work some days. If you have another car that is ICE that you can keep for those times, cool. Or if you are ok with planning, and rent a car when you want to do a road trip, great.

Personally I suggest a plug in hybrid for anyone who can only have one car, and is considering going electric. Prius prime, Chevy volt, Chrysler Pacifica are the ones that have enough range for a short commute, the rest are trying but just haven't gotten there yet.

Well duh, bank accounts aren't horses, you can always just add another 0 without overflow

Yup anyone who as umlaut to an n will buy anything for "cool factor"

A sack of shit serving sacks of shit

As with everything 3d printing, it's a tradeoff.

It's harder to prevent oozing, harder to change colors, worse quality(usually) and larger nozzles.

But you print much cheaper, often can print larger parts with larger nozzles (stronger).

What I do with printing, I'd seriously consider a retrofit pellet extruder on my smallish machine (e5+) If it were reasonably priced.

Almost everything I do is "structural" and doesn't need to be pretty direct off the printer.

Trump doesn't care. Soon as he's sworn in he'll pardon himself for any and all crimes past and future. Then grift as much as possible before getting the 25th amendment boot, which he'll take gladly. No need to act president, and all his legal problems are solved. He can then golf all day every day, exactly as he wants

I knew there was a reason he's called the head of the Republican party.

"X people need their head examined" -someone who legitimately needs their head examined.

rented

You guys do tests (meme, I'm just too lazy to make)

Just because they call themselves communists, doesn't mean the end result isn't the same as capitalism.

A select few have the power, most others are exploited as much as possible

I know what will stop those drones.... blowing up the roads, of course that's the only way the drones can get to the capital.....

I believe it involves impossible math, like dividing by 0

Fuck protecting American interests.

We need to be protecting HUMAN interests. Not billionaires desires for more zeros at the end of their net worth.

That is going to hurt when it cases down on the flat.

But that's only of you think he cares about starting a healthy family. He wants people to suffer, have babies that then may grow up poor so they can suffer in the grinder that is capitalism, and if they don't grow up then their parents suffer more under said grinder with the healthcare costs further feeding the 1%.

Because it has a lot of energy that can be released by burning