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World’s first ‘superfast’ battery offers 400km range from 10 mins charge::Tesla, Toyota and VW supplier CATL says production will begin in 2023

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[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Know what's better than a battery that charges fast? A train with a catenary that never has to charge at all

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not remotely realistic to expect a sudden drastic change in infrastructure like that. While we should work toward such goals, statements like this are ignorant of the time and efforts necessary to affect such change.

[–] Trekman10@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

Kinda telling on yourself by calling it "drastic". What exactly is "severe" or "rapid" about supporting alternative methods of transportation?

[–] ErikDegenerik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then build me a railroad track fucker.

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[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

I'd love to see you take a trash lumber pile or fence clippings to the landfill with a train. If I didn't own a truck I would have already needed to rent one twice this week

[–] Trekman10@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, you really incensed a whole bunch of people who seem to like living in soulless, identical car-centric hells. What normal person thinks you expect "a sudden drastic change" from a silly comment like this?

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Thing about reactionaries, they tend to react

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How does that get me from my house to somewhere near my house? Or is this something I'm supposed to pay higher taxes for that won't service anything near me?

[–] randomtask@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It doesn’t. Public transportation only really works in dense environments. The rub is that the default mode of development across the US has been suburban sprawl, which basically makes the “last mile” - from the bus/train route to your house / business / shops - impractical.

Best we can do given this state of affairs is build good transit and densify around the stops with infill development. Continuing the pattern of sprawl just makes every problem related to transportation harder - longer commutes, more traffic, higher amount of energy consumed to get from point A to point B.

Anyway, hope this battery tech works out because a lot of us are stuck with expensive personal vehicles as our only viable option given the way our cities are laid out.

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[–] Trekman10@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Ugh, me? Living in a SOCIETY where I have to PAY for things I don't USE?! What's next, paying for SCHOOLS when I don't have KIDS?!

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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