On mobile Voyager is quite nice imo

The efficiency of an EV SUV will never be anywhere near the efficiency of an (electric) bicycle. Motor and battery efficiency also improves for bicycles. The bicycle will always need only a fraction of the resources, in materials, electricity and occupied space.

It embeds the existing dominant individual, resource-wasting mode of transport even deeper into the culture (and urban planning). That makes it a negative for urban environments. Bit different story in very sparsely populated areas.

The water in the pipes requires a lot of energy. Extraction, cleaning, pumping it around. It will get more expensive with higher energy prices.

Producing food requires a lot of energy. Tractors, harvesters, packaging plants, transport to supermarket. Energy prices will make your food more expensive.

Houses need heating, cooling, repairs.

The cost of almost everything almost everywhere will rise a lot very quickly in the coming months if this mess keeps getting messier (and it is). Fossil fuels and the price of it are deeply embedded in every aspect of life.

Black cat, white cat

that’s a sales pitch, not a source.

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So I looked into it a tiny bit, and I am not surprised. These tires can reduce noise a bit indeed: mainly FOR THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE CAR because those notice it more now where they used to not notice it much because of their own engine being louder in the cabin.

Even if newer tires end up making it relatively more silent than older tires, the heavier vehicles (ever larger SUV’s + very heavy battery) will probably mean it’s a zero sum game compared to the old cars and tires. There is no magic tire eliminating the rubber-road surface noise. Cars on roads are noisy, the only thing effectively keeping the noise down is speed reduction in cities or building expensive tunnels.

Sources?

Why would air drag be lower? Big SUV cube = big SUV cube. The only difference is lack of air intake grill in front.

There are roads “near” me (750m - 1500 m) away with speed limits 80-120 km/h. That’s already pretty damn far away compared to many other buildings in average cities, and there’s lots of stuff in between me and the roads, like other buildings, parks, sound shield barriers next to the road, et cetera. Yet, when the wind is coming from that direction, it is very very loud, especially at night. Even at such far distance and it not being just open plains between the roads and me… I find it quite hard to believe there would suddenly be new fancy tires that reduces this noise, and mainly: why wouldn’t the same tires be used on internal combustion cars then? There’s also the “whisper” asphalt. Yeah, it means a dB or two less, but it sure as hell ain’t fixing the problem completely for me.

Source?

Above about 30 km/h you don’t hear the engines from traffic, but just the general “woosh” traffic noise. EV or ICE doesn’t matter much in that regard. Exception being obnoxiously loudly ‘tuned’ engines, but those should just consequently be confiscated imo, especially if driven at night, while that is on purpose disturbing thousands of people’s rest, it’s sociopath behaviour

The entire “electric cars wills be quiet” is just a lie and/or misconception of what traffic noise is. If you live relatively near any street with a speed limit above 30 km/h, as most people do, you’ll notice very little noise difference with 100 % electric cars and trucks imo. The noise comes from the road surface, the tires, the friction in general. An electric car at 50 km/h to me is louder than a new train at 150 km/h. Asphalt or concrete + rubber = noise at speed.

They want ever more power and control. Money is just a tool to get that. Most billionaires are sociopaths.

Same. Spent about 65 € I think, now it’s looking like > 200 €

I think even both teddybears and soap are quite regulated markets in EU, could probably require a capital to enter the market a lot larger than you would think, to get anywhere beyond the local flea market level of sales.

Still trying to wrap my head around how at that time and in that context and when so many technology CEOs and celebrity/politically active people seem involved, they were all sending these plain text emails, didn’t bother the least to try to make communication more secure and private

Lol Volkswagen, the company that actively rigged diesel cars to pass the tests… ? Dieselgate. The German car manufacturers are hopelessly late at EV because they wanted to drain every last penny out of their ICE. The EU setback to extend ICE is after German car manufacturers lobbied… They are killing themselves in the long run, for bit more production in the short run. They saw this all coming decades ago and made wrong choices. Now they’re fucked. The Volkswagen id (EV) sales numbers are so disappointing they had to lower production and make employees stay home.

You mean as server? I’m looking for os on TV box, server is already running dietpi with jellyfin and works rather well