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But again… why be mad at China? They are making big investments in their own people and industries to boost their own country’s abilities and better their future.

Meanwhile the US is just trying to hamstring the rest of the world instead of doing better.

They’re living the American dream y’all used to aspire to.

How come people get mad at the Chinese Government for assisting in building their industries, rather than getting mad at their own Governments for NOT assisting in building theirs?

tl/dr: The average person will be very reluctant to use Lemmy.

Sounds like a positive to me.

I don’t know if I trust the average person anymore.

Dunno about the person I was replying to, but I was assuming they were lazy. And potentially stupid, but mostly the laziness was the critique.

“Oh no, I clicked the button and it didn’t do what I thought it would. Oh well, I give up! My time is too precious to try any sort of critical thinking. I’ll just post on reddit instead. Updoots to the left, thanks for the gold kind stranger. Dopamine boost achieved.”

TIL that expecting a tiny slither of effort from participants is “elitist”

Now that’s more like it!

I could write a book on the disastrous experience with our fleet of Vitos. Suffice to say we will never consider any Mercedes product again.

Like the Volkswagen ID.Buzz, Kia’s PV5 looks more like a minibus. At 4,695 mm long, 1,895 mm wide, and 1,899 mm tall, Kia’s passenger electric van is slightly smaller than the European ID.Buzz model (4,712 mm long, 1,985 mm wide, 1,937 mm tall).

Its a pity the only EVs that are getting announced are small, and aimed purely at the people mover market. I guess because service vans are usually bought based on price, and BEV is just not enough available power to cart a tonne of gear around over long distances.

I’m looking to replace our diesel service vans (mix of Toyota HiAces and Hyundai iLoads) and I want to go up a little in size, not down to the tune of 500mm or more.

Come on BYD, take that Shark 6 idea and make a van out of it. The Whale 6. I’ll take half a dozen.

Toyota Hiace LWB
    5265 (L) x 1990 (H) x 1950 (W)
Hyundai iLoad
    5125 (L) x 1935 (H) x 1920 (W)

vs

Volkswagen ID.Buzz
    4712 (L) x 1936 (H) x 1985 (W)
Kia PV5
    4695 (L) x 1899 (H) x 1895 (W)

That’s my argument. People with Tesla cars are all carrying on about separating the product from the CEO and I’m like… your money is the difference between him being a relatively harmless crazy person ranting in a public park somewhere, and being the president of the US whose actions are causing real world hardship to a heap of people.

I did a work trip that was twice that distance and I never even left the state 😢

Comparing this specific heating per volume, the Tesla 4680 cell creates around 2x of the heat to be dissipated at a 1 C load (Figure 8). Thus, when designing a system with the same power requirements, the cooling needed for the Tesla 4680 cells must dissipate approximately 2x more heat per volume than that needed for the BYD cell at the same load. Therefore, the LFP electrode design is more favorable for designing a cooling strat-egy for fast charging.

Interesting that Tesla is the king of fast charging, despite the technology being objectively worse in a fast charging application.

Who cares? If your upvote or downvote or any other activity you deliberately perform on a public platform is something you’re embarrassed about and wouldn’t be willing to do in a face to face engagement you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

> “Here’s how”

> goes on to not explain how

Our EV doesn’t have a spare, which I wasn’t concerned about as I’ve had maybe two flats in my driving history and one of those I just pumped up and drove to the tyre shop for a repair.

What did catch me out recently was not having a jack. It makes sense though - car has no spare, so why include a jack?

We got a screw in the tyre a few weeks back and it was leaking too bad to pump up for even a short drive. I figured I’d jack up the car, take off the rim, and take it in the wife’s car to the tyre joint.

Things to note:

1. No jack, as mentioned. Went to the local auto store and bought a pretty mid range scissor jack that looked like every other car jack I’ve ever used.
2. EVs are really bloody heavy. A standard 1600KG scissor jack could barely move the thing. Went back and bought a much heavier duty trolley jack.
3. A 3200KG trolley jack makes lifting the car easy, but the jack itself is huge and leaves no space on the lifting points to put jack stands.
4. An EV is really stiff - lifting the rear passenger side resulted in every wheel except the front drivers side coming off the ground.

Didn’t want to leave it perched on a jack and a single wheel, so took the tyre off and ended up replacing the screw in the hole that was leaking with a bigger screw… Then pumping it up and driving it to the tyre joint.

Moral of the story - might be easier to just carry a small selection of different sized screws and a screw driver.

It’s too small for a rim and tyre.

Totally agree.

I don’t even bother clicking on video links on random instances. Most are broken, and the rest are incredibly slow.

Why do Shorts even exist? They’re just videos that are worse (no time bar, cropped to portrait, description and comments etc are even harder to read)