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How low can Elon Musk sink? – politicalbetting.com
How low can Elon Musk sink? – politicalbetting.com
Elon Musk has become even more unpopular in the UK since January, and is now unpopular overall among Reform UK votersAll BritonsFavourable: 13% (-5 from 12-13 Jan)Unfavourable: 80% (+9)Reform UK votersFavourable: 36% (-11)Unfavourable: 58% (+18)yougov.co.uk/politics/art…
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The key will be temperature control of the battery during the charging process, I will bet.
Interesting how obsessed Elon is with The Rocket… A telling object… a giant phallus at the intersection of war, science, engineering, industry, government, fascism, the occult… If only someone had written a 700 page postmodern novel on this subject…
Got to say if it was anyone other than BYD I would consider the announcement as vapourware but not with their background and market position
A bit like Cummings, really, fair comment - bonkers solutions.
Gotta laugh at Tesla . . Even as a Green.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50695593
A row has broken out ahead of the Boat Race after three Cambridge rowers were blocked from competing amid what has been branded “a desperate ploy from Oxford to gain an upper hand in the most slimy way”.
Three post-graduate teacher training students – one of them a former Under-23 world champion – have been ruled ineligible for the men’s and women’s races less than a month before the annual showdown on the Thames between Britain’s oldest universities.
Same old Cambridge, always cheating.
This is super exciting. We've made next to no effort to put in EV infrastructure in the UK (only invested about £3 billion), so this might be the sort of game changer that we need. Much cheaper than retrofitting charge points to houses and lampposts.
Just checked, nothing!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50695593
As I said at the time, the way Musk should have defused the situation was to say something like: "I'm sorry. Everyone wanted to save those kids, and passions were running high. Unsworth is not a paedo. I should not have said that. I will offer a million pounds and a years' time for five SpaceX engineers to the International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery to develop technology that they think will be of use in future rescues. Thank God the kids were retrieved safely. And I give a million dollars to the family of the Thai cave diver who died."
That would probably have cost him less than the lawyers cost defending the court case.
Funny thing is Daniel Levy of Spurs also read Land Economy at Sidney.
I'd argue for undergrads only, but that would be hypocritical as I played Uni rugby as a post grad for three years.
* Talking bollocks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62z6gljv2yo
A timely boost to global and European demand. Could lead to a mini boom if they properly go for it, because there is so much dry powder there.
Compare and contrast with the smaller rocket company, Rocketlab. Beck, their leader, is obsessed with Venus. They are developing a self-funded private probe to Venus.
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/upcoming-missions/first-private-mission-to-venus/
Still, I am looking at buying a Model Y Performance for the missus. Some seriously cheap 2nd hand ones around atm for some reason...
Small sample. Basically same results as the previous Ashcroft poll.
And they'll probably get cheaper. Who wants to drive a car that screams "Friend of Elon"?
What's so frustrating about the UK is that we are already so well placed for EVs - lots of excess energy overnight, 85% of households live in houses rather than flats. We've just failed to get the incentives pointing in the right direction.
To charge that fast means delivering electricity in large amounts, very quickly.
To charge to 80%, say, with 10% “in the tank” means delivering 70KWh in 5 minutes.
On an 800 volt system that is *thousands of amps*
That will require infrastructure, all right. Lots of it.
Turnout adjusted, ‘Don’t know’ excluded
Reform UK: 36%
Labour: 33%
Conservative: 12%
Liberal Democrats: 7%
Green Party: 7%
Other: 5%
How are you likely to vote in that by-election?
Turnout adjusted, ‘Don’t know’ included
Reform UK: 30%
Labour: 27%
Conservative: 10%
Liberal Democrats: 6%
Green Party: 5%
Other: 4%
Don’t know: 17%
How are you likely to vote in that by-election?
Raw vote, not adjusted for turnout
Reform UK: 26%
Labour: 19%
Conservative: 5%
Liberal Democrats: 4%
Green Party: 4%
Other: 2%
Don’t know: 22%
I would not vote: 18%
His share price would rise. Although the people torching his showrooms would now be from MAGA.
MUST WATCH: @VP explains in three minutes why the experiment of globalization failed:
"It turns out that the geographies that do the manufacturing get awfully good at the designing of things."
"Cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch, and it's a crutch that inhibits innovation."
Having said that I also captained a high profile university sports team as a post grad. Well, high profile ish. OK then, croquet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten_Engelmann
He also rowed for Cambridge University in the 2006 Boat Race (losing against Oxford). He competed as a member of the winning Cambridge Crew in the 2007 Boat Race, where he weighed in at 110.8 kilograms (244 lb), the heaviest rower ever to compete in the contest.
In July 2007 Engelmann did not complete his academic course and instead returned to the German national rowing team to prepare for the Beijing Olympics. It was reported that Oxford asked for the 2007 race to be awarded to them, or declared void, as Engelmann was so important to the crew and appeared not to have been a genuine student. Although Cambridge refused to void the event, Engelmann was denied his Blue, making him the only Boat Race crew member not to have a Blue.
Presumably people have range anxiety so can't actually travel anywhere meaningful in the things.
It's interesting that Tesla should have brought together the hard right (hating anything eco) and the hard left (hating everything Trumpish) in one joyous band of righteousness.
To start with, it means investing in infrastructure all the way from the power stations on an epic scale. The equality reports alone would take 10 years.
Gov. Pritzker just debuted a phrase I had not heard before: "Elon Musk and his DOGEbags..."
As a regular commuting cyclist I can tell you that it is normal to get wafts of cannabis smoke when passing queues of traffic, usually in the vicinity of a van.
Though that might not be enough power.
Edit: At 1MW needed per charger, a 20MW SMR might just do it, which Last Energy claims to sell...
That's roughly equivalent to £6 million per fuel station. No idea if it's feasible to get enough power to each location for that kind of cost.
Apart from Trump's unreliable tariffs, does Tesla have any kind of moat now ?
US Chief Justice John Roberts said the impeachment of federal judges is “not an appropriate response” to disagreement with their rulings
That’s slacker thinking.
Detonate a 20kt nuclear device in a cavern full of salt every 30 minutes. The molten salt reservoir drives a steam system that powers the turbines….
#WhatWouldNealCloudDo
In terms of if you or I had the money - maybe
But by the time the bullshit artists have had a go…. No chance.
The entertaining bit is that electric cars have also destroyed a lot of the premium market as electric cars remove a lot of the issues premium ICE sellers focus on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlLv_EIL9OE
Just no charger hooked up to it yet….
Add him as a runner Betfair!
What odds would you want btw?
Seriously though, nobody is getting a 10-20MW connection to every petrol station, surely?
You'd need local battery storage, though that would probably need as large an exclusion zone as a nuclear device.
In the long term, yes, your local petrol station will be a pretty serious electricity substation.
And in fact there is a major synergy there. The battery storage can also be used to time shift power and make the local grid more stable and secure. Buying and selling electricity to/from the generating companies….
Dear @BBCNews in case you have not noticed or somehow missed out on the last 20 years, the Putin regime in Russia is a brutal dictatorship that kidnaps, imprisons, disappears, tortures, and murders anyone who opposes it. So could you stop asking Russian anti-war activists (including the one who is a friend of mine) to go on a "debate panel" to "debate" pro-war Russian regime propagandists, and thereby identify themselves to the Russian regime? Your job is to report the news, and not to emulate the morons that inhabit twitch.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr_Q-bPpcw5fJ-Oow1BW1NQ/community?lb=UgkxP1r5X2-z3VnW3WiIeQddG40mFtX8weEa
Is SCOTUS going to get radical and start protecting judges from intimidatory maniacs? Is it a sign that SCOTUS thinks enough is enough?
The Guardian is covering it in US politics live.
Silence has had some success over here selling scooters and "nanocars" (which, I guess, are technically invalid carriages) with swappable 5.6kWh batteries which have built-in wheels and are small enough to drag into your own house or garage. Not so good if you're in a flat or have steps, though!
For anything larger I suspect that just expanding / improving the charging infra is going to end up being much cheaper in the end.
In a filing moments ago by Justice Dept, ICE doubled down on the Trump admin's refusal to honor Judge Boasberg's oral directive to turn the planes around, and said two planes left before court order was put in the written record. via
@JakeMRosen
Most EVs won’t charge at that rate, and won’t for many years. It’s possibly quite useful for commercial vehicles like buses, though.
A 500 kW charger would fully charge a 50kWh battery in ten minutes - which is about the maximum likely need for the next decade - so that’s about five cars an hour.
A 10MW supply implies 100 cars an hour. How many petrol stations do that amount of business ?
With local battery storage you could do more at peak hours, or get by with a smaller supply.
And a lot of people will just trickle charge at home.
For example, they are going to fit EV chargers to the new laybys along the A9.