Why don’t you look at the drive’s SMART data?

$225,000 per charger is quite a deal.

Actually some browsers also have issues with 4k and certain codecs. IIRC Edge is (or was) the most compatible surprisingly.

It’s ‘unreasolvable’ in the sense that nothing currently exists to make an EV truck match the range of an ICE truck while they’re presumably dumping lots of cash at the problem currently. Whether or not batteries are cheaper and more energy dense years from now, it doesn’t help them sell more 2025 model year trucks. This isn’t ‘unresolvable’ in the sense that it can never be solved just not something that can be solved now.

There’s a lot more than swapping in the E-axles. The engine will need to be swapped out for a small Cummins engine with the generator bolted on the back and the battery packs will need to be fabbed in place as well along with all the high voltage wiring and what not. It’s certainly not an insurmountable job but it will definitely be out of reach for most people to do at home without having had a decent amount of experience.

Just to be clear, I’m extremely excited about their project, both the light-duty truck conversions and the heavy-duty EV trucks, and agree with what you’re saying about the company, so don’t take this as criticism of Edison or their work.

Yes, they’re easily solved with a larger fuel tank that can take you further before refilling. “Doubling the range” on an ICE vehicle is as simple as some extra plastic/sheet metal with very little cost. The same isn’t true for battery packs. The physics of it is that gasoline and diesel have more energy density than lithium (or other current compounds) batteries.

I’m following along with them via DeBoss Garage, but technically they haven’t solved it either. They’re still working on prototypes for passenger trucks and haven’t brought anything to market yet.

The idea is fantastic, and I actually considered investing after his latest video before seeing the requirements, but it also comes with many issues like how the F you’re going to do complete drivetrain swaps on your truck without having decades of fabrication skills. They’ve mentioned having dedicated shops available to do conversions but labor prices are the real killer here. I know there are lots of people out there capable of doing it but it’s hard to reach any volume doing it that way.

Nothing in the body of the article actually supports the headline here. They’re saying that some states have EV incentives currently and that Trump is likely to end them federally. The way the headline is written makes it sound like there’s a concerted effort between Democratic governors to ensure these subsidies remain but they never mention anything about any governor.

My solidly blue state offers incentives but they’re only from a fixed pool of money that runs out halfway through the year at best, with no way to know whether they’ll continue them next year or reimburse you if you find out after purchasing that the funds have already been depleted.

Who’s going to volunteer for the slave labor and heavy subsidies it takes to reach that price though?

or you could just (god forbid) build them here in the US.

Even cars built in the US from US car companies have to have parts imported from Canada and Mexico (sometimes shipping back and forth multiple times). These tariffs will raise the price of every car.

2026 is only 10 months away. I think they’ll be okay.

Even besides this aspect, it’s an idea that borders on fantasy because it would require every vehicle to have the same size and shape of pack (or perhaps a few different variations) which would require every manufacturer to agree to the standard and build all their vehicles around it.

Furthermore, it would also require a ton of labor to be swapping millions of packs every day with no end in sight. This also introduces a ton of liability because what happens when people fuck up and a car bursts into flames or the pack falls out on the highway, which even if rare, will be happening frequently with volumes this high especially in a job that probably would be considered low skill and low pay (like a fuel attendant job).

The same investors that approved his $46B pay package last August?

Can you get around this by changing your DNS? I thought that’s the primary way ISPs can control your traffic (though I only enough about this stuff to be dangerous)

Can you explain in detail how that’s possible for them to accomplish?

What a crock of shit. They’re $15k because the government is paying for the rest of the car, they control the lithium, they don’t give a shit about environmental regulations, and they use slave labor to produce these materials and cars. The only way any other manufacturer in the world can compete with this is if they also do all those things too. If they choose not to commit such atrocities, they’ll go out of business, leaving us completely reliant on Chinese auto manufacturers for all our needs with millions of Americans out of work. This isn’t a “US car” thing. No other country is producing cars in such a manor. US manufacturers only make up 30% of the market here.

This is just a bunch of vapid influences being manipulated and then spreading it to all their followers like a virus. They won’t see anything past the fake cheap price and demand the Walmartification of ever more US manufacturing jobs.

IMDB would probably be a good start.

I think it depends on what you’re storing. If it’s video then you’ll want bigger drives because you’ll fill your array of small drives up quickly and trying to manage 10 or 15 1TB HDDs will get out of hand quickly. Backing up isn’t super critical with large “Linux ISOs” since you can just torrent most everything again to replace missing files.

For fast throughput of small files, I think smaller drives in an array win out and if these are important files, it probably wouldn’t be too expensive to buy a couple of large HDDs to backup the entire array.