I’m not sure this did change, at least I can’t find any reference to it, other than a potential proposal.

I’m in the UK, short-term cheaper alternative is keeping your existing gas boiler until it breaks down… so roughly 20-30 years. The government gives £7,500 towards a heat pump but that has resulted in prices staying artificially high and virtually every install for a 3-4 bed home comes in at £10,000. A new gas boiler is around £1,500-£2,000. Due to some other short sightedness, any heat pump which also cools is not eligible for the £7,500 grant, which is really problematic when temperatures keep rising.

Bought our first electric car this year and will never go back to Diesel. If heat pumps weren’t so expensive I’d have one installed tomorrow.

I’ve been thinking about this and I have no problem with AI being trained on things I’ve made public.

What I do have a problem with is that AI being owned and monetised by the super wealthy to further enrich themselves at my expense.

How about a battery the same size and weight as the 22kWh leaf battery?

Edit: I actually just looked up the 2010 Leaf pack and it’s 294kg, with CATL prototyping 500Wh/kg cells a 100kWh pack leaves 94kg for a nice box and BMS. Maybe this challenge is too easy.

With current technology yes it’s impossible, although those doughnut motors are next level, so you are spot on with tweaking the definition of efficiency. Things we can do now are as you mentioned wind resistance, Lucid have achieved over 5mi/kWh in a large luxury vehicle focusing on that.

You can focus on rolling resistance of the tyres, or my making an ultra-efficient smooth self-driving system.

Next is weight, making the car and batteries as light as possible. Although this would reduce the regenerative braking, the inefficiencies in that system would also be reduced.

Ancillary power, most cars have reasonably efficient heat-pump and electrical systems but shaving a few milliwatts from each system and cutting out a few truly unneeded systems will cut down on wasted power and weight. I like the Ami and it’s, ‘you already have a screen, entertainment system, and sat nav on your phone’ philosophy.

Now we get to the tweaking of the efficiency definition… how about we say you can have as many kWh as you like as long as it’s no bigger and no heavier than the origin leaf 22kWh pack?

Maybe adding solar or other micro-generation with an assumption on % of day/night driving and average power achieved by micro generation.

Or by massively improving the efficiency, rather than just the size of the battery… although as the original Leaf only had a 22kWh battery that would be 17mi/kWh, which is probably a bit optimistic.

OMG, how did you know?!