Hinderberg accused Adani of all sorts of things and Adani's response was pretty lame - 1. https://hindenburgresearch.com/adani/ 2. https://www.adani.com/-/media/Project/Adani/Invetsors/Adani-Response-to-Hindenburg-January-29-2023.pdf 3. https://hindenburgresearch.com/adani-response/ There are just t...
Jump to postOne thing hampering EVs IMO is a lot of people still live in places like apartments and condos and other dense residential complexes. Those places lack EV infrastructure like charging abilities, which would be a big turn off for people how don't have/can't afford a house where EV savings are truly ...
Jump to post[Snip] No why would we? Under NATO we have not lost independence or ceded sovereignty that make decisions on our behalf unlike the powers of the European Commission. NATO cannot make decisions on its own all member nations have to agree, there is no voting decisions are made by consensus. No decisi...
Jump to postThe price cuts in China dropped sales of competing EV's from Nio, Li Auto and Xpeng by as much as 60% in January. Tesla got a boost in sales for both February and March and they are production full.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqGFOvv6WPc
240 KW DC fast charging in India -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwCRE-2qmu8
15-80% 10 minutes and things are only going to be better.
Bought a mid-range Samsung device last year, so not gonna change it anytime soon. I wanted to get Note 10 because of the stylus but was twice my budget. If ever Samsung decides to have something like a Note 10 or 10 lite in and around INR 25k/- then there is where my money will go. But again, not an...
Jump to postDuring COVID lockdown (the first one) I bought tons of stuff on Amazon, it turns out more than 5000€ were on Amazon UK despite me being in France, due to favorable prices. Since then I've bought almost nothing from the UK, for Christmas I bought a 50€ thing that was only available there, ordered ea...
Jump to postDuring COVID lockdown (the first one) I bought tons of stuff on Amazon, it turns out more than 5000€ were on Amazon UK despite me being in France, due to favorable prices. Since then I've bought almost nothing from the UK, for Christmas I bought a 50€ thing that was only available there, ordered ea...
Jump to postAnd for this? Poorer by the year, nurses, teachers, even some firefighters, having to use that stain on our nation, food banks, something that hardly existed before 2010 but whose rapid rise is something Jacob Rees Mogg is proud of, he says. Schools crumbling many seen as dangerous. Then there is t...
Jump to postultimately it will become the supplier's problem when no further orders are taken. i.e. reputational damage If it was so, then there would never be any shady suppliers anywhere in the world. In fact even known reputed manufacturers have been known to short-change customers throughout history - http...
Jump to postSure the problem lies something else though: Products designed to stay in the EU and that are certified to EU standard are tested in regular as well as unannounced controls. Products that are designed for export to a country with no agreement that demands controls or standards can just be packed an...
Jump to postHave you seen those news clips of miles long traffic jams in Texas due to cold weather and impassable ice covered roads. Imagine the range anxiety if you were sitting in your EV for 12 hours going nowhere. Safety forces can always bring you gasoline. Best vehicle to be in - IMO hybrid I remember ju...
Jump to postNo but they can produce and sell good meat in the EU and the stuff thats out of date can just be sold and shipped to the UK instead of thrown away. They could have had good meat on the continent and shipped dodgy meat to the UK when the UK was in the EU. See the horsemeat scandal. https://en.wikipe...
Jump to postI don’t think Brexit supporters understand (as it seems is typical with most things) that products coming into the UK from the EU are not checked, Jacob Rees Mogg said it’ll be too expensive if import checks comes into effect. There was a random lorry check late last year and they found out of 22 l...
Jump to postDescribe for me an EV made with 1950s technology with 300 miles range, 0-60 acceleration in less than 8 seconds, and with over the air updating, and level 3 charging, and advanced driver assist features. . It probably would not have sold even in 1950. I can imagine, in fact I have driven and would ...
Jump to postApart from that, big business doesn't pay as much tax as everybody else does. One big reason for the industrial action to happen -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QZ-M6kNLXM
Toyota is again to its old tricks, seems the new leadership didn't have any change. They still want to produce majority gas vehicles and are ignoring what advances are happening -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQngpP3MLG8
Materials science, for which my shorthand definition is quantum physics meets engineering, has been essential for battery production. And probably just about everything else used in a modern vehicle. It really did not hit the ground running until the closing years of the last century. EVs without m...
Jump to postAs I said it's a business decision. Eventually someone sees that the equipment breaks down a lot then then does a cost v production analysis, then most likely starts looking at the competition. But what if the competition is also doing the same thing. Once you have no standards, then it doesn't rea...
Jump to postI just don't see how the percentages of EV sold would increase significantly unless the Big 5 started to offers more competitive products into the market. Personally, I see significant adoption in few short years, and then slow down in demand unless there are major changes in the market offerings. ...
Jump to postthat will then come down to do the "knock off" parts meet national standards? If not, then it's his choice to risk his company's reputation if the parts constantly fail. that comes down to a business decision not a trade decision.. In India, who do you think is gonna check national standa...
Jump to postIt is painfully obvious here that the defenders of Brexit have no practical experience in the mechanics of international trade or the complexities and costs of product certification processes. Having spent over 30 years in international trade, I can tell you firsthand that it makes a world of diffe...
Jump to postI just don't see how the percentages of EV sold would increase significantly unless the Big 5 started to offers more competitive products into the market. Personally, I see significant adoption in few short years, and then slow down in demand unless there are major changes in the market offerings. ...
Jump to postIt is painfully obvious here that the defenders of Brexit have no practical experience in the mechanics of international trade or the complexities and costs of product certification processes. Having spent over 30 years in international trade, I can tell you firsthand that it makes a world of diffe...
Jump to postThe problem is when i replied the question was about any friction it was about aligning standards. When the standards between EU/UK have not changed Maybe, maybe not. The friction (and it’s consequences) are derived from the ability to have non aligning standards, whether they actually align or not...
Jump to postAt the state level, California's government also leans heavily Democratic at the moment, which means Republicans tend to think it's some kind of communist worker's paradise. That's not really true. The state's ballot initiative process lets us see where the voters are on a lot of issues directly, a...
Jump to post…IIRC the Horndale battery was finished with couple of months after Musk shot that tweet saying we will either do it within that time frame or we will do it for free. Don't know or think that any hydrogen creation utility installation can be finished in that sort of time-frame. Most of such install...
Jump to postSeems like 13 years of underpaid and undertrained is finally resulting in a big industrial action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XZ9iZKz3To The strike is by half a million workers via teachers, civil servants, Border Force staff and train drivers. Am shocked that even Border Force are underpaid a...
Jump to postI'm already pissed off that my printer ink cartridges let evaporation happen. I'm gonna be more pissed if my car's fuel slowly disappears, even more if it explodes after it leaves the car. BEVs also lose charge when stationary. Teslas very especially since they never fully shut down and have this p...
Jump to postI am sure there are quite a few Terri Pratchett fans here on airliners. Has anybody any idea why Discworld hasn't been attempted either on cinema or TV as a series ??? Would be interesting IMHO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld
Why do people hate California so much, is it because there are lot of different ethnic communities that live there or is there something more ??? Hate, jealous whatever, would be nice to know as have at least a bit of context. It's an easy punching bag for politicians to rail against its problems, ...
Jump to postWhen will the UK be able to reapply to reenter the EU? I am positive a vote for it would succeed in the UK. The real question is would the EU accept a reapplication and what guarantees would they want to avoid this same mess from happening again in ten or twenty years? Tugg From an outsider perspec...
Jump to postWhy do people hate California so much, is it because there are lot of different ethnic communities that live there or is there something more ??? Hate, jealous whatever, would be nice to know as have at least a bit of context.
Jump to postThere are already motors and batteries without (or with little) rare earth. And as you just said hydrogen cars are also EVs, they need electric motors to work, they just produce their electricity from hydrogen in real time. Hydrogen leaks because it's the smallest atom, and it's stored under pressu...
Jump to postSo how is the AU/NZ deal going to do a "number" on UK farmers that the EU can't do right now if they wanted to? Being a Kiwi, you would be aware that the seasons are different for veal and lamb products. Why would the EU do it and had they ever made any attempt to do so? The UK with these...
Jump to postThat age limit is ridiculous. Yes she's a loud mouth a bit like Trump, except she makes coherent sentences and talks about facts, science, stuff like that. Bothers a lot of people, of course. Why doesn't she "know her place" ? I don't have a problem with the age limit to have your button ...
Jump to postApparently, Mr. Santos or whatever the gentleman goes by, he isn't or wasn't gay as well or was two-timing with a woman with whom he shared a flat with. This was on Jimmy Kennel show. I don't have more details as it was on th show and I can only read the subtitles. This is not correct. Santos’ ex-b...
Jump to postHow does AOC sound from the democratic side, she is young, has fire and the belly and strongly opinionated. Where does she appeal to independents and youngsters and how much? Could she be a potential VP material in current dynamics and if yes who would be her potential crew-mate for President be ???
Jump to postUntil and unless Hydrogen separation is cheaper and the technology widely available don't see it taking off. Until gasoline engines can go more than 20 miles without breaking down and needing repair I don’t see them replacing horses. True, but you are forgetting that is an alternative technology wh...
Jump to postApparently, Mr. Santos or whatever the gentleman goes by, he isn't or wasn't gay as well or was two-timing with a woman with whom he shared a flat with. This was on Jimmy Kennel show. I don't have more details as it was on th show and I can only read the subtitles.
Jump to postFor people who are worried about EV's in cold weather, solutions do exist like Tesla's heat pump and these solutions and more should make things more easier. Now whether they should be mandatory or opt-in really depends on markets and people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGgrkeds5U
Toyota has been talking about hydrogen for 2 decades now … 20 years is a long-long time frame If we’re going to talk about hydrogen… Twenty years is nothing in the big scheme of things. People talked about EVs for much longer than that but the battery technology was simply not advanced enough to ma...
Jump to postThe way I see it, you cannot make hydrogen either as easily or whatever as you can make out of combination of solar and battery technology. Hydrogen will have niche uses but nothing like what these two have. And these solutions have been in market, known to work and are relatively inexpensive. A pr...
Jump to postThe way I see it, you cannot make hydrogen either as easily or whatever as you can make out of combination of solar and battery technology. Hydrogen will have niche uses but nothing like what these two have. And these solutions have been in market, known to work and are relatively inexpensive. A pro...
Jump to postUsually all alternative energy serious solution makers would be there. It is like saying if there is a Car convention, then there wouldn't be EV's or something equally absurd like that. For e.g. heat pumps and many other such manufactures, energy storage i.e. batteries and whatever different types ...
Jump to postAbout hydrogen, how much it would be would probably be in Fully Charged show that will happen in Canada on 9th and 10th September 2023 - https://ca.fullycharged.live/ What the hell does hydrogen have to do with an EV convention? :rotfl: Usually all alternative energy serious solution makers would b...
Jump to postAbout hydrogen, how much it would be would probably be in Fully Charged show that will happen in Canada on 9th and 10th September 2023 -
https://ca.fullycharged.live/
Where. AFAIK they met and beat market expectations. https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/electric-vehicles/tesla-beats-expectations-to-report-record-profits-seeks-rapid-output-boost-41674701230296.html LOL - why do you think Tesla dropped their prices? Because they were bored? They're losing market...
Jump to postSadly, even Ford didn't get till 6 months back -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxM_ZH8QHMI
The big problem with Toyota is that they were asleep at the wheel for many years thinking that electric cars would be a novelty and hybrid vehicles would be the way of the future, possibly followed by fuel cell vehicles. Only now with new leadership do they have a chance to devote their vast resour...
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