Clickbait title, but here’s the cold weather range reduction, ordered best to worst (why wouldn’t they sort it that way already?).

Model	WLTP range - miles (km)	Real-world range - miles (km)	Difference
MG 6S	301 (485)	214 (345)	-29%
Hyundai Inster	223 (360)	159 (256)	-29%
MG IM6	313 (505)	218 (352)	-30%
KGM Musso	235 (379)	163 (263)	-31%
Voyah Courage	273 (440)	186 (300)	-32%
Kia EV4	369 (594)	242 (390)	-34%
Changan Deepal S05	276 (445)	182 (293)	-34%
Xpeng X9	348 (560)	224 (361)	-36%
Mazda 6e	343 (552)	216 (348)	-37%
Smart #5	335 (540)	212 (342)	-37%
Audi A6 E-Tron	405 (653)	250 (402)	-38%
Hyundai Ioniq 9	372 (600)	230 (370)	-38%
Zeekr 7X	336 (541)	210 (338)	-38%
Volkswagen ID. Buzz	279 (449 km)	141 (227 km)	-38%
BMW iX	398 (641)	241 (388)	-39%
Ford Capri	348 (560)	210 (339)	-39%
Volvo ES90	387 (624)	231 (373)	-40%
Tesla Model Y	372 (600)	223 (359)	-40%
Mercedes-Benz CLA	440 (709)	261 (421)	-41%
Skoda Elroq	325 (524)	192 (309)	-41%
Suzuki eVitara	245 (395)	139 (224)	-43%
Volvo EX90	379 (611)	210 (339)	-45%
Lucid Air	596 (960)	323 (520)	-46%
Opel Grandland	300 (484)	162 (262)	-46%

Do post again if you figure it out!

His comment about the history of police patrols and slavery is one with more to learn about:

Most law enforcement was, by definition, white patrolmen watching, catching, or beating black slaves.

After the Civil War, Southern police departments often carried over aspects of the patrols. These included systematic surveillance, the enforcement of curfews,

I’m not excited about random people walking around with big guns, but to hear him talk I have more in common with his ideology than police (or certainly ICE) — even his gun safety keeping it pointed down is miles beyond ICEs haphazard flailing of weapons at protesters, murder aside.

Yeah, I’ll believe it when you can buy it and/or someone reviews an actual bike.

Yeah, current company has their internal git server default to master and it was a little odd first time I created a new repo. Luckily all the CI templates can recognize either name so I just switched it.

Bought a lifetime pass, switched to Jellyfin after way too much Tidal promotion on my server.

I just downloaded the .deb (unless it was an AppImage) and it ran without further tweaking.

Similar kite systems are being developed elsewhere in the world, including by the Dutch start-up Kitepower, whose kites are flown in continuous cycles of figure-eight patterns to produce energy at the ground station to which they are tethered.

https://thekitepower.com/the-hawk/

Cute — though the visual gag fits a little better with infinite recursion that infinite loop.

This demo of the C-8 (speedboat size) looks pretty neat. One unexpected feature is that it’s very quiet, they basically chat in a normal voice.

In that model, the motor is a bullet form factor, in line with the rear foil.

Software union? (Where?)

Thankfully, it’s not too difficult. The solution, which was created by security engineer Fredrik Gustafsson, comes in the form of a small circuit board that taps into the car’s battery management system (BMS) harness. Gustafsson has instructions on his GitHub page, but here’s the gist of it.

Cool. Probably wouldn’t tinker with my car to that extent.

It does look like PlugShare has coverage in Europe, but I don’t know if it’s as necessary — from what I hear y’all have much better charging infrastructure. J.D. Power does have some non-US surveys, though I only see Canada and China.

J.D. Power runs surveys which you’ll get if you use PlugShare (and if you aren’t using it, you should to find out about out-of-service chargers!). They publish their results, and a recent publication addresses no-charge and waiting visits:

Non-charge visits and availability vary by location: To better understand the EV charging experience, J.D. Power monitors non-charge visits and availability at public stations nationwide. The findings reveal that the Pacific region has the highest rate of non-charge visits (21%), with 12% of customers also reporting wait times for an available charger. In contrast, the East South Central region has the lowest incidence of both issues, just 7% for non-charge visits and 5% for wait times. Among major cities, EV owners in Seattle (25%) and Los Angeles (24%) report high rates of unsuccessful charging attempts, while a greater share of drivers in San Francisco (18%) and Denver (14%) experience wait times to access chargers. By far, the most common reason for non-charge visits is the charger being out of service or not working properly, which affects 60% of failed charging visits.

Wondering what the action will be in court:

The consequences for Rhode Island’s only commercial offshore wind project will feature heavily in a Sept. 4 federal court hearing, where a group of 18 Democratic state attorneys general, including Rhode Island’s Peter Neronha, will ask U.S. District Judge William Young of Massachusetts to throw out the Trump administration’s Jan. 20 executive order halting reviews of offshore wind projects.

I think we’re often faced with the choice whether to invest in personal protection in case of disaster, or in general disaster aversion. It seems more certain and higher direct impact to do the former. But if there’s any reasonable chance the latter will succeed, I’d rather do that. For one, the payoff of not living in an apocalypse (even with significantly reduced material goods) is much better than living well-armed in the apocalypse.

At least that’s how I frame it to myself: up my donation to the ACLU and Democracy First before I stock up on ammo. As long as there’s hope.

Yes — I think part of the lesson is to document the rationale and the compromises as much or more than the intended functionality.

Sounds extremely similar to US-based Form Energy (founded 2017), down to the 100-hour target and container based installation. Ore Energy says they were founded 2022. Anyway, cool to have more activity in the long duration grid storage space.

Interesting. A little more specific than “hey free land” though it doesn’t seem like it being a pit is actually a factor.

Abandoned mines tend to have decent road access and solid connections to the grid, ready-made infrastructure that could be useful for solar installations. What’s more, solar projects on abandoned mine sites could also help revitalize mining community economies.

Solar could also aid restoration by keeping bare soils from drying out or blowing away and making it easier for plants to get established.

The ‘Indonesian Indigenous Car’ is making its debut in 1:1 clay model form at the 2025 Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show (GIIAS), and the company behind it is PT Teknologi Militer Indonesia (TMI), which deals with military equipment. i2C’s first product will be a large SUV based on a platform of a foreign partner which identity is yet to be disclosed.

Sounds like there’s a long way to go until there’s an actual car.

[T]he company quotes a CLTC range of 617 km from an 83.4 kWh NMC battery. There’s a single rear-mounted motor pushing out 204 PS and 310 Nm of torque (identical figures to the BYD Atto 3).

For all the talk of “indigenous” it sounds like a restyled BYD car, unless I’m misinterpreting. Though developing local design and assembly capacity seems like a good benefit.