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Current capacity, safety and power delivery are fine for most purposes, really.

LFP batteries really solved battery fires - they can't produce their own oxygen like older NMC batteries, so they just get really hot and die instead of going off like fireworks.

Once you get past 300 miles, you're pushing the limits of the average bladder and you need to stop before the car does.

With current electric trucks, if you're doing some city driving and plug the truck in when you take a break, a truck driver will run out of hours before the truck runs out of range.

EVs are even better - you're fully in control of the power, without an engine and transmission imposing a bunch of limits and power bands based on engine RPM and vehicle speed.

You actually get the experience that automatic transmissions promise but fail to deliver. If you want power, press the pedal. If you want more power, press the pedal more. That's it. No power fade, surges, hiccups as it shifts, etc.

I prefer a manual to an automatic, but they're both obsolete. Electric motors just do as they're told.

I wonder if they're going to change that one. More and more people are going to go their whole lives without ever seeing an analog clock.

People on here get all upset about kids these days who can't read an analog clock. Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it's completely reasonable that they don't know how to drive a manual.

Doesn't have the depth, warmth, or ability to bring joy to others.

My favourite is when they include a screenshot as evidence, and the screenshot clearly disagrees with them. So I get to read back to them the message in their own screenshot.

"Nobody wants to work" always has the unspoken second part, "for what I want to pay."

Because then they'll actually need to do recalls instead of just patching issues with an update.

That's probably only true for USB power supplies - a USB adapter isn't set up to do anything with voltage and probably just passes the positive and negative pins through.

The VGA adapter feeding power back through USB in the first place, yeah, that's not supposed to happen.

With USB power delivery, you can get 9V, 12V or higher over USB. Usually the device requests higher voltage from a PD charger, but it's not impossible for a modern device to be able to cope with just having 12V shoved into it.

Signals aren't magic, they consist of electrical power. You can get at least a little bit of power from anything that isn't an optical port.

You'd have to actually get paid for it, though.

Feed-in tariffs around here assume that you're using home solar and you're feeding into the grid during solar hours, when everyone else with solar is also flooding the grid. So it's hardly anything.

We don't have higher rates for feeding in to the grid during the evening peak, because that hasn't been a thing before.

We do have higher usage rates for peak times though, so it makes sense to use your car's battery to power your house during those times which takes load of the grid. But we really need time of use rates for feeding into the grid too.