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While the electrical grid as a whole may be able to handle the load, can the average US residential service?

My house has a 100A 240V service which is barely adequate as it is. I’m sure it could handle a single EV if I charge it overnight, but what happens when the rest of my family switches to EVs?

If I remember correctly, a charger for a Tesla requires a 50A 240V dedicated circuit, which would be half the capacity for my entire house just for a single car. Additionally, many homes don’t have such a circuit, so one would need to be installed.

This can be easily solved by upgrading my service, but that’s another cost.

In the end, it’s not a show stopper, but it’s certainly another hurdle that will cause a slowdown in adoption rates.

Perhaps codes should be passed which require the garage of new homes to have such circuits installed by default
I wonder, when Tesla unveils something that doesn't fit within the parameters that those people think of as a 'car', how many will drop their reservation?

Since we don't know the details yet, we don't know how much of a departure it will be.
If it's ethically questionable then that's a good reason to publish this information, especially when politicians are involved.
> Surely you can recognize the merit in keeping domestic control of transportation, which is the reason these regulations exist.

Not OP, and not trying to be glib, but I think you're skirting the major objection by assuming agreement here.

Differential privilege due to happenstance of birth location seems a pretty arbitrary line to me, in need of justification.
The difference is that those companies were/are exploiting various loopholes in laws across many countries to avoid paying the tax they ordinarily would. Immoral? Sure. Illegal? No.

I'm no tax professional, but it sounds like this leak is about a large number of wealthy people actively evading tax, by hiding their assets/source of income and other shady things. This is very illegal, and if true, I imagine some of these people can and will be prosecuted for it.

Tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion isn't.
With "inspired by" meaning the very same thing as in the opening credits of a Hollywood movie...
Because once you are boarded and settled, you can start counting sheep.
There's no particular reason we can't install a gas pump on every street corner, and in every office parking space, either - except for economies of scale, environmental reviews, HOA opposition, theft and vandalism...

These are not insurmountable problems, but they are expensive, or very time-consuming ones.

You also can't just run a power cord from a wall outlet to the street. You'll need to tear up the sidewalks, to connect the charging stations to the grid. In many places, power isn't underground, so you'll have to bring it down from the power lines to the underground - maybe through the buildings?

This quickly starts running to far more then $1000/charging station, and closer to $10,000/charging station.

This is what curbside parking looks like where I live:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6236671,-122.3252994,3a,73.2...

It would cost a fortune to wire that up. Better yet, if only half the streets in the area were wired up, due to the saturation of parking spaces, it would be close to worthless.
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They're teens, good judgment is something they're still working on developing.
Several of the author's arguments center around what exists today in terms of infrastructure. Yes, if necessary grid/stations don't exist the average EV purchaser might have trouble getting recharged, kWh prices might go up, etc...

Deep eye roll at stuff like this.

I hope the author realizes that at some point there wasn't a network of gas stations across the country, there wasn't much of an electrical grid, or a highway system for that matter.

Some of the solutions to these potential challenges are related to public investment, many can be solved by private investment and there is a profit opportunity, thus solutions will come. Better solutions in my mind.

Here's the most missed point I see in all this infrastructure discussion. The most costly piece to next-generation recharge infrastructure already exists, and it is the natural gas "grid". It's massive and empowers much cleaner (than coal) local electricity generation. Today you can buy a small plot of land alongside the highway, pour a concrete pad, install a natural gas generator, purchase gas at bulk rates, and charge EV's for $$$. Even the smallest towns in America have NG lines running near or through them. The highest cost I've seen to have a bulk gas line brought on to a business' property was in the low tens of thousands. You can spreadsheet this, there's profit in this model and it requires NO improvements to the electrical grid and suffers practically no energy loss.

Most of what the author sees as problems others will see as investment opportunities and solve. In fact I think I'm going to go take a look at the map of supercharging stations right now...
>Publicly traded companies are one of the most important pro-egalitarian components of Capitalism.

Capitalism eventually buys the market. There has never been a different outcome.
I'm picturing it killing a lot of innovation at Google. Many projects, such as the self-driving car or search for that matter have no initial profitable means for years if ever. With that, I feel it will also stop the evolution of many products, e.g. Why risk investing in a long term project, when they know we can make money this quarter doing X.

On the other hand this will likely lead to more stable products,and products will disappear less often.
The version in the US is a 2.5 liter.
> a side note: when are U.S. sites going to stop treating Australians as second class citizens?

Once we figure out how to digitally accept kangaroo pelts as payment.
Its sort of an amateurs discuss tactics and generals discuss logistics kind of problem.

Oddly enough for HN, its a scalability problem (LOL). If you turned the entire known planetary stock of economically useful lithium ore into present gen batteries with 100% efficiency (LOL) and eliminated all competing uses (LOL), depending who's goofy numbers you use, you could give every human on the planet roughly one electric car. Once. There on its relying on recycling, or the market absorbing dramatically more expensive sources of lithium, or income inequality making a car lifestyle unavailable to most people, etc.

Its a kin to the argument of take the amount of copper in the infrastructure of the USA and divide it by the number of people in the USA and multiply that by the population of the undeveloped world, and you end up with more than the worlds known copper reserves. Africa, for example, will never be electrified at least as we in the west understand electrification. Perhaps new technologies or new ways of looking at things... but just picking up the plans for the TVA and dropping them in the 3rd world is literally not physically possible with existing known metal reserves.

Universal EVs are no problem for every status signalling coastal yuppie, theres just not that many of them. If the developed world retains hegemony we MIGHT be able to switch as a culture completely to EVs. But "the world" is not switching to EVs unless the global population shrinks to fit the global resource limits or ... ?

Note that my numbers assume 100% of the world supply is mined AND 100% efficiency (LOL) and there are no limits. I'm not claiming that 1% of that is realistic, but I am claiming its the very hard upper bound is too low even in some kind of star trek post singularity magical handwave world. Maybe you could fuse hydrogen atoms into lithium in a fusion reactor for a hundred years to make the worlds most expensive battery...

I'm not even sure we can pull it off with low range lead acid batteries in low range cars. When discussing infrastructure type stuff, there are only so many pounds of "stuff" currently economically available given current refining technology per human being. There IS enough iron to give us all cars (maybe not crude oil, but at least iron won't be the limiting factor) but there is literally not enough economically lithium recoverable on this planet, at the current technology level.
Well let me premise this by saying: Getting more money rarely turns a bad job into a good job. If you don't like the place you work, that's the problem, and getting more money won't solve that problem.

That being said: I think you're right about getting other offers lined up. I think you should start interviewing, go out into the market, and get 3 - 5 solid offers lined up. Then bring those offers to your employer and leave it in their hands.

If they won't pay you market-rate (after showing them what market rate is), then leave; simple as that.
> Surely you can recognize the merit in keeping domestic control of transportation

That doesn't seem entirely self-evident, and that's part of the subject of this discussion thread.

There are already extensive regulations on the operation and safety of airlines, most of them likely for good reason. Why, above and beyond those regulations, do we additionally need to limit ownership?

If the answer is "handwave handwave safety handwave security", then I'd point out that there are dozens of other industries even more ingrained into the US where someone looking to do damage could do far more harm than they ever could with an airline, and none of those industries have prohibitions on foreign ownership.
A typical hairdryer is about 1KW, it runs for a few minutes at most, similar to an electric kettle. AC units for domestic (normal sized houses) are from 2 to 5 KW, actual use depends on the temperature differential, humidity, the size of the house and any leakage.

Recharging a drained car battery would use as much power as running a large AC unit for 15 hours, but if the car has driven only a small distance it will use much less power. It all depends on the distance the car needs to drive (logically...).
It's the same as "ok Google" on certain phones... Local dsp chip that only needs to process the wake word.
Yes, but the point is it doesn't need to be ready for 100% of locations immediately. Los Angeles alone has close to 19 million people. Add in other favorable cities like San Jose/SV, San Diego, Las Vegas, and Phoenix and you're looking at a fair portion of the total US population. You can have robotaxis serving those cities initially while the technology matures, and location-restrict autonomous driving for consumer-owned cars to the same places. People seem to think that the moment autonomous cars hit the road, they need to be able to handle a blizzard on a dirt road in upstate New York, but that just doesn't make any sense.
Please do not judge all PHP apps based on this.. there are plenty of PHP apps that use better methods :(
Is the server part very important? It would be great as a self-contained javascript app that I can store on dropbox and sync between devices.
I doubt that the demographic that pre-orders a Tesla Model 3 (years before shipping), is a demographic that is unwilling to embrace change.

I also doubt that it will have no manual control mode, so it shouldn't an issue regardless. Tesla is clearly going the route of being a strict super-set of the capabilities of other cars, until the market decides what features are obsolete many years down the road (e.g. steering wheels).
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Not the company for you, obviously.

What you described sounds like amateur hour on their part, and here's why: if you ask a question which has a single sought after answer, it doesn't give you any data except the binary did they solve it or not. What you want are coding challenges whose answer tells you about that person and how they compare in thinking to others, so there must be a range of valid solutions.
> In early 2014, when she was 16, some Tumblr users dug up posts Miller had written when she was 13 in which she used the word “nigga.” Screenshots of the old posts went viral. At one point, according to Miller, she had 9,500 concurrent visitors on her blog and she received over 2,000 angry messages, some of them telling her to kill herself.

If you're telling a child to go kill themselves, because of something they said when they were 13 years old, and didn't understand a complicated issue from halfway around the world...
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They want to derive the maximum amount of exposure, page views and revenues from the leaked data in the form of web articles with ads, printed news papers with ads etc. Releasing the the actual data would be counterproductive to their own financial gains.

Somewhat ironic, I think.

(Yes, some of the 100+ news organizations are ad free, such as the mandatory tv license-paid state broadcaster/propaganda organ SVT from my country, Sweden, but they also have their own motives of wanting to control the data.)
I'm not super-knowledgeable on this but as far as I understand it, they improve battery lifetime significantly by having low per-cell draw, not running the batteries all the way down or charging them all the way up, and having a fancy cooling setup to prevent cells getting too hot. They still degrade noticeably, but at a slower rate than your typical portable device (where the relevant marketing metric is battery life from a full charge down to zero, rather than battery longevity).
> how the world’s rich and famous hide their money offshore

It shouldn't be just the rich and famous. These schemes don't cost much. I'm sure many internet entrepreneurs use them, because they 're easy to setup and to do accounting (plus low taxes, ain't that sweet?). People have already stopped acting surprised when they read about big corp. dodging taxes. We live in a financially globalized world, but taxation has not been globalized. The main issue here is whether the companies are laundering money or used for illegal purposes. The tax evasion issue is too hard to solve with data exchange (which now exists). These people are always going to be finding new ways to avoid taxes. Perhaps governments should start acting smarter, like moving more to indirect taxation.

Perhaps if this "leak" had happened a few years ago, when panama was still a tax haven it would have some real meat. Right now it seems like it will be used to divert attention.
The problem with this approach (called a "serial hybrid powertrain") is that it's much less efficient than a parallel hybrid like the Prius. You can see it in the fuel economy figures: the Volt gets much lower highway fuel economy when it's running on gas than the Prius does, and only makes up for it on shorter trips where it takes advantage of its relatively large all-electric range. If you're doing a lot of highway driving, the Prius is a much better choice, both for fuel efficiency and for price.

Using a gas engine just to generate electricity, and then running that through some conversions and battery storage before using it to run drive motors just isn't as efficient as using the ICE to drive the wheels directly. Or maybe GM does a crappy job of it, but the fuel economy figures speak for themselves.
Putin's record speaks for itself, really.
Once advertisements become sentient creatures and can be considered human, then they should be granted human rights. As it stands though, what you're doing is saying that refugees (who, I remind you, are humans) are basically worth as much as a banner ad on a website. It shouldn't need to be said, but I'll say it anyway: blocking ads is not comparable to genocide. In any way. At all.

Fucking disgusting.
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Yeah "non-USA" is a "niche".
Cool, so we'll just continue pirating your content and bypassing your filters at record levels then :-)
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The deal with Boom appears to be with Virgin Atlantic, which it a different company from Virgin America, due to the ownership laws that are causing Branson to bail on Virgin America.
Nobody is going to go through the trouble of writing content they aren't passionate about if there isn't a financial incentive.

As for the free time argument, people who are passionate about a subject make time for it. These people you claim are too busy just surviving to write content still find time for several hours of television/video games/other worthless use of time a day.
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I'm pretty sure that the trains are "competing" pretty well with cars in New York, despite a lacking the features you metioned, considering that there are actually less households that own cars there than households that do.

But generally speaking, I agree. To convince the average person of a public transit/driverless/generic-alternative-to-driving, privacy and end-to-end-ey-ness is probably important.
Fair enough. I know I had heard something about them unblocking "non-intrusive ads" but didn't really pay attention to the details.
If you consider that EVs have A) large batteries w/ efficient charge/discharge cycles, B) efficient high-capacity inverters, and C) are plugged in (somewhere) for large fractions of their life, and D) very often have capacity far exceeding their next expected trip duration, then:

It is inevitable that Tesla (or someone else) will implement Grid-tied battery backup as a standard option on these vehicles.

When that happens -- the Grid gets "free" multi-GWh battery-based load shedding.

Why is this not considered an inevitability? Am I missing something obvious here?
>The self driving car business isn't close to profitability, but clearly has a successful business model ahead of it.

Won't/can't read the article because Wired adwall, but what is this business model? Whenever self driving cars came up, I see they need a miracle. Solution looking for a problem. Points being: have better or on par alternatives for transportation already, don't have the necessary legal framework to operate in, people actually like to drive, road safety could be improved way better with other improvements (better education, harsher fines, lowering and enforcing speed limits), environmental impact decreased by moving away from motorized transportation etc.
I think the best solution involves evoluton of the delivery network, so maybe EV haulage is closer than I think..

An EV light truck is perfect for the final delivery to home or shop, and doubly so in congested inner cities with pollution charges, like London.

I could be wrong, but I thought the London Routemasters were hybrids?

HGV delivery might evolve to a combination of more rail, longhaul diesel HGVs and EV light trucks, or even full EV HGVs where the range is lower. Like making several supermarket drops in a city. Whatever way you look at it, we're already making excellent, and suprisingly quick, progress.
Yeah, most of the "reservations" are not going to be real customers. It's just something to tout to shareholders to justify their massive multiple. Tesla is in a race against the clock, they are practically corporate welfare queens with their subsidies and they continue to take on more debt.
So can it now run Witcher 2?
Huh? I just transferred from a Kawasaki train car to a Canadian bus with an Isuzu Engine to board an Airbus that was routed to JFK via British flight controllers, fueled by imported oil.

Glad we got it nailed down.
What are the people in the list hiding (that corporations don't)?
What's your point? The expense and danger of gas pumps make them completely incomparable to EV charging stations.

Replying to your edit: If you're installing them for a whole street at once, then the cost of bringing power down from a pole or digging under the sidewalk gets amortized across them all. We already hook every house up for water, gas, electricity, and communications. Providing power to every parking spot doesn't have to be particularly hard. It's not so easy you can ignore it, but nor is it a particularly big deal, not when looking at a timespan of decades.
Reading about djb makes me feel really unproductive and stupid :) He wrote daemontools and solved most issues that systemd tries to solve years ago, wrote qmail and basically designed the blueprint for writing secure daemons on Unix. He wrote a secure wrapper for using C library functions safely, created a build system that is similiar to NixOS and solves most of the pains of the Unix filesystem hierarchy. Wrote a secure BIND DNS replacement and I've probably forget lot's of other archivements in cryptography and mathematics linke DNSCurve, ECC ciphers and MACs. https://cr.yp.to/djb.html
So how long until Sony lawyers get the Github repo shut down?
I doubt it's the data itself that your browser is struggling with. It's more likely the parsing of the comment content, generation of 20,000 templates, keeping track of probably a quarter million DOM nodes, listening to a hundred thousand events, and making sure all of that is layed out and aligned sensibly in real-time that your computer struggles with.
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>Even if it’s 6 seconds instead of 4 it still is an impressive number for a car at that price range.

Not really. There are multiple Ford and Suburau models (off the top of my head) that will run sub-6.0, some models $10k cheaper than the Model 3.
Letters of intent usually are not legally binding in any way. I
However, I really don't know about Boom's specific case.
The function of the grille on a car with a combustion engine is to protect the radiator from debris while still allowing airflow to it. The need for airflow comes at a cost of aerodynamics, so if the Model 3 lacks a radiator, would it not be more "functional" to sacrifice the traditional grille in favor of improved aerodynamics?

The current design looks transitional to me...it has the general nose shape everyone is used to without the pointless nooks and crannies. If they were really trying to fully favor aerodynamics it would look like an F1 nose.

Edit: stupid autocorrect
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The government structures are completely broken from the inside out. We badly need a disruption in this sector. Digitally decentralized democracy, blockchain government, ethereum-based economy! Not sure. These are random thoughts, but I would love to see at least some baby steps towards this direction. Not an expert on this topic, but I can see there are potential opportunities for the world as a whole and, what's most important, its economy. I'm sure there is an emerging field coming soon around this niche. Most likely, it's just a matter of time.
In fairness, they don't just whitelist any old ad, there's ostensibly a review and guidelines that must be followed, but at the end of the day, it's still a colossal conflict of interest.
No you're working 100% of the time for less money than the gross wages number on your check.
> And I can go to any local shop and get a pre-paid SIM card without any personal info involved.

You see, the fact that I could go to any shop and buy a pre-paid SIM card in the US was a surprise to me. Don't expect that to hold true anywhere else. Taking Brazil as an example: you need to provide a photo ID.
Only a matter of time before the whole US SS/IRS database is dumped into the public domain by political hackers too.
Pieces of it have been liberated by sloppy corporations and medical databases. But not the whole thing from the government.
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More on how the funding projections work here: https://www.backerkit.com/blog/85-backertracker-predictions-...
Fuck off yourself, you stupid piece of shit.

I stand by my comments: this article was standard anti-EV bullshit, and if you don't like my opinion, you can go die in a fire for all I care.
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if "Movie staff and music artists" feel like they aren't being paid enough, they should lobby the industry and demand more money. Recording artists earn less than 10% of album sales. The industry pays $20 million to have Johnny Moviestar in their movie. But somehow there's not enough for "movie staff" ? That's not a problem attributable to piracy.