I must admit that I didn‘t even think of any applications of this battery tech outside of the mobility sector.

That’s true, but they had almost no success in the automotive world up until next year (probably).

Interesting that it took so long. I assumed that Sodium-ion would have hit the mass market one or two years ago when CATL announced they started mass-producing these cells in 2023.

For example, Yiwei debuted its first sodium-ion battery in an electric car in late 2023.

Up to 400 kw charging speed and an average above 200 kw? (based on the 10-80% metric). That’s really impressive.

If you can repair it yourself and maybe wait a few weeks for the spare parts to arrive … then it‘s probably cheaper.

But why would someone do this? This seems ok for an electric bicycle, not for a 30k Xiaomi car.

As Electrive points out, these cars come without dealer support. Warranties? Fugeddabowdit. Parts? Nope. Service? Bring your car to the nearest dealer in Shenzen. If your car turns itself into a brick one fine morning, who you gonna call? Do you speak Cantonese?

It has a grafana integration, so it probably doesn’t include dashboards natively.

I would add file types to the list. JPEG is easy to rotate, but what about other image filetypes, images with embedded video, different video file formats etc.

I disagree.

Yes, there is some editing capability in the app, but it doesn’t edit the image, it stores a new file in your local (non-immich) gallery. As I don’t sync this particular folder on my phone, I had to reupload it - and now have this image twice in immich, and one version with the wrong timestamp (now).

That’s barely any more helpful than downloading the image and editing it with another app.

True. But I don’t think that he adressed the downsides of battery swapping (e.g. different form factors, different sizes and weights, the huge need for storage) and the advancement in charging technology (BYD just announced 5-minute-charging).

However, he really focussed on how charging stresses the electrical grid while completely ignorong the existence (and possibility) of battery-backed fast charging stations. Such a battery-backed fast charging system would probably need less battery capacity than the proposed swapping station.

I know nothing about coding, but its probably not trivial in a project the size of immich to add “one simple one-liner”.

Think of the Web UI, the mobile apps, the internal API, the filesystem handling, preview generation etc.

I’m sure it can be done, but it probably takes a couple of days.

This article comes across as promotional to me

Just an idea: Maybe a simple photo editor would fit in nicely? Crop, rotate and adjust the colors/brightness/contrast.

And … please let me rotate videos that are accidentally 90 degrees off.

The typos make your comment very hard to read.

the results show that the majority (69 percent) of respondents without an electric van on their fleets do expect to purchase one in 2025

This number seems almost too high to be true.

But maybe this also means that in a fleet of 100 cars, they buy one electric van? Hard to tell.

The EREV lineup includes two trims. The Pro version comes with a 52-kWh battery, delivering a CLTC electric range of 230 miles, and can achieve up to 870 miles when combined with a full tank of fuel. The Max version upgrades to a 66-kWh battery, extending the CLTC electric range to 280 miles and offering a total driving range of 933 miles.

I dislike how the range numbers are just “added” together. I don’t think it’s reasonable to add fuel-based range and battery-powered range and say that the car now features a 900 miles range.

I’ve run caddy and traefik. Personally, I prefer caddy, but both are likely completely fine for your use case.

Traefik has the advantage that it can be configured with docker compose files, while caddy needs its Caddyfile as a seperate configuration.

I suggest this video from the youtube channel “technology connections”.

The key takeaway is that you can charge your EV with any household outlet, unless you drive a lot.

You’re right, I picked one of the fastest charging EVs. Your example of the chevy bolt is however one of the slowest EVs in terms of charging.

But you’re right, I probably should have chosen a more “average” car. 1 hour of charging for this trip is really the “best case”, other EVs need 2+ hours (or 3+ hours for older models).

What’s really nice about this website is that everyone can easily find out how much time charging takes for a given route and car. And that is really why I posted the link here.

The website works without a login. Nevertheless, I’ve created a screenshot of a route from Madrid to Paris, 1260 km, with four charging stops, adjusted for a Hyundai Ioniq 6 LW AWD.

The longest charging stop takes 18 minutes.