Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Gale Hawkins]

At work, I keep threatening to buy rubber shoes - for draft horses.

I should probably quit joking about _____ like that !

Rgds, D.

Or live in walking distance of an Amish community!

This energy and labor shortage is a worldwide mess.

The assisted living Center for the gentleman that I'm his guardian lives contacted me yesterday that they are planning to shut down in 30 days because of lack of workforce and so we are getting into another home in the chain but it'll be a 100 mi away from me but it's a nice place.

 

[txdon]

Why Tesla will be the #1 car sold across the pond.

 

[3930dave]

Or live in walking distance of an Amish community!

This energy and labor shortage is a worldwide mess.

The assisted living Center for the gentleman that I'm his guardian lives contacted me yesterday that they are planning to shut down in 30 days because of lack of workforce and so we are getting into another home in the chain but it'll be a 100 mi away from me but it's a nice place.

Strangest labour market I've seen.... then again, outside of Covid, some of this was predictable.

I bicycled to work Friday. 20km or so, one way. Some hills, good cardio. I've done it a couple of times this Summer, after finally changing out the rear gear-set I'd blown out of my old mountain bike....

We are not a bicycle culture (Can/USA), anything like some parts of the world. I met a Danish guy, new to Canada, working at an engineering company in Toronto years back. He commented about being only one of two people in the whole building who bicycled to work - said in Denmark, the ratio was inverted.

Once the market settles down a bit, I'll probably take a more serious look at E-bicycles.... firstly for the wife, after she gets a decent helmet, as that may help her get some more ride-time in....

Rgds, D.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Wife & I ride horses. No fuel cost, they fertilize, go places lots of 4x4s couldn't go.
Great companions and don't have to plug them in!
However...there is land to buy, stable to build, fences, gates, feed, hay, straw, veterinarian bills, tack, farrier, medication, trimming supplies, (I'm sure I forgot some things).
They are fantastic though!

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Wife & I ride horses. No fuel cost, they fertilize, go places lots of 4x4s couldn't go.
Great companions and don't have to plug them in!
However...there is land to buy, stable to build, fences, gates, feed, hay, straw, veterinarian bills, tack, farrier, medication, trimming supplies, (I'm sure I forgot some things).
They are fantastic though!View attachment 717277

I just got in from scooping mini horse poop out of dry lot while the wife did the hay and feed, etc while the horses were out getting some green grass. You have a nice place and beautiful horses.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say

Surely this is not true with so many businesses shut down, food and supplies shortages, etc.

 

[3930dave]

Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say

Surely this is not true with so many businesses shut down, food and supplies shortages, etc.

Unions holding the docks hostage ? Naaahhhh, that'll never happen......

One solution is in that article - automated off-loading.

Otherwise, build it on-shore, or do without are other options.....

Sea-can costs jumping 10x or more will/has caused pain - upside is making on-shoring more attractive.....

Rgds, D.

 

[goeduck]

I have worked projects at the Ports in Seattle. I do not see automated off-loading a possibility without massive investment.

Build it on-shore, I am 100% on-board with.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I don't think this one has been posted but here it is. This is why I believe 80% of the taxpayers money going to EV discounts will go to Tesla and China companies coming. USA OEMs just do not have any sizeable number of EVS plan for the next 5 years for domestic sales. For 2 years I have been thinking Nissan is on the downhill slide towards the end.

 

[Egon]

Wife & I ride horses. No fuel cost, they fertilize, go places lots of 4x4s couldn't go.
Great companions and don't have to plug them in!
However...there is land to buy, stable to build, fences, gates, feed, hay, straw, veterinarian bills, tack, farrier, medication, trimming supplies, (I'm sure I forgot some things).
They are fantastic though!View attachment 717277

No fuel costs except for the essentials that provide them a proper living environment.

If they are used to cultivate & harvest, haul lumber etc. for food and building supplies it’s a different scenario.

 

[3930dave]

No fuel costs except for the essentials that provide them a proper living environment.

If they are used to cultivate & harvest, haul lumber etc. for food and building supplies it’s a different scenario.

And a different tax (deduction) status.....

Which lead me to thinking about..... commercial EV use.... how will the metering work ?

I'll use my HVAC Contractor neigbour as an example. Drives a Dodge Sprinter, hands diesel bills to his book-keeper; all done. Jump fwd xy years, he plugs his Electrotastic Van in at home at night.....

Is he going to need a separate "commercial" meter @ home, or will vehicles have govt recognized "smart tax" software built-in for reporting charging ?

Rgds, D.

 

[Frankenkubota]

I have worked projects at the Ports in Seattle. I do not see automated off-loading a possibility without massive investment.

Build it on-shore, I am 100% on-board with.

problem with build it here is, among many other issues, the environmental ecological impacts.

quick example.....

denim material is made here, highly automated but made here. blue jeans

they ship the bulk denim to some, quoting the donald, **** hole in SE Asia where the acid stone wash process is hidden so deep in a jungle it takes 2 days to get there.

NIMBY

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Building one a day starting sometime next year will be a start.

 

[lman]

Building one a day starting sometime next year will be a start.

That's what they said 3 years ago.

 

[3930dave]

That's what they said 3 years ago.

While I'm not a T fan-boy by any stretch, that's just Standard Elon....

Set a Stratospheric Target and Go For It..... even if you only get part-way there, you end up leagues in front of your nearest competitor.

Works fine (for him), assuming you don't run out of $. Betting against him hasn't worked out well, so far....

Rgds, D.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

That's what they said 3 years ago.

What's your point in stating what is universally know?

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I notice some just don't get the thought process of Elon Musk. Having for the first time ever watched hours of Grimes interviews this weekend helped me better understand how Elon thinks because they are very very very similar.

 

[3930dave]

I notice some just don't get the thought process of Elon Musk. Having for the first time ever watched hours of Grimes interviews this weekend helped me better understand how Elon thinks because they are very very very similar.

Elon is actually borrowing an old technique.

IIRC, it was Edison who used to publicly announce products, well before they were ready. Simple enough tactic, but one that most of us don't have the ________ to use.... me included.

Rgds, D.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

This $400 Cane Uses Autonomous Vehicle Tech to Help Guide The Visually Impaired

The standard white cane is an essential aid for getting out and about for many visually impaired people, but to date, it hasn't offered much in the way of affordable modern updates – which is something that a group of researchers wants to change.

www.sciencealert.com

Self driving technology is helping the blind walk faster.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Elon is actually borrowing an old technique.

IIRC, it was Edison who used to publicly announce products, well before they were ready. Simple enough tactic, but one that most of us don't have the ________ to use.... me included.

Rgds, D.

Yes. A quote from thousands of years ago stated there is Nothing new under the Sun. In Europe Edison is not viewed as highly as in the USA.

The wisdom behind Elon Musk's announcing his products once they become a reality in his mind is to attract a team that will make them a physical reality.