No, stating facts that apply IS the scientific process, to explore and test ALL options.
Lidar and cameras share one huge problem as far as self driving cars go, rain and snow render BOTH mostly ineffective.
I've never understood the current public discourse about most tech these days. If you like an idea, you latch on to it, promote it, and destroy opposition to it.
Wait, come to think of it, that's how politics is practiced today as well!
We NEED to go back to being allow to discuss pros and cons of everything. Cheerleading and winner take all gets in the way of EVERYTHING.
Musk is no different.....hero to devil due only to politics.
I seem to remember MBA seminars 15 years ago.....something about turning brands into religions and users into ambassadors (read: zealots).
The arguments people bend over backwards for just to argue in-favor of stunted technology is just so bizarre to me.
This is a tech site. If you are arguing for lesser tech, you're not one of us.
Liking tech doesnt mean you have to wholesale embrace all technology without any criticism. That is what we call, if we're being charitable, obsession. Personally I fell it's closer to zealotry.
There is zero proof that it's liberals that set the fires. No one has been caught. And as far as "unbeknowingly" goes, do you mean unknowingly or unbeknownst?
Uh huh. There's no proof that I'm eating all the cookies in the cookie jar, but my weight keeps going up. Must be the russians.
Cmon now. We have left leaning websites full of people calling for the destruction of teslas, we've seen none of this behavior BEFORE the election, and we know the same group wasn't afraid to burn their own cities down 5 years ago.
Common sense, so rare it's a super power!
Perhaps a step down converter somewhere in the car that distributes lower voltages but with extremely higher currents. Battery's need serious cooling or worse possible cause happens - thermal run-away and your car + the rest around it is completely toast.
Why would you step DOWN the voltage? That's the opposite of what you want. The higher the voltage, the lower the amperage you need to reach a rated charge speed, and the less heat produced.
This is why kia's 800v EV6, despite having a 20kW slower charging rate then the model 3, can go from 10 to 80% in 15 minutes, when the tesla 3 with a similar sized battery needs 41 minutes. When charging, going from, say, 10 amps to 5 amps results in 1/4th the heat, not half.
You can deep charge a battery bank big enough with higher ratings. But it has to be distributed evenly. Then the questions comes which power grid is capable of putting down a 12 car load point and being used at several times of the day(s).
In the west there are problems with power already. Some area's completely filled up to the notch even causing power outtages. We're still a decade away from something practically like this.
Well, we have fission, but that gives some people the big sad, so instead we'll have the rolling brownouts and have to put battery walls in every home.
The competency crisis knows no bounds. If I ever get a house with some land you bet I'll be putting up solar panels and battery packs because I have little conviction that we'll be able to maintain our infastructure over the next 30 years.
Interesting. So it's maxing out the CCS standardfor voltage. At 1000v, to hit a MW it would need to push 1000 amps.
That's.......a lot. The current CCS standard is maxed at 1000V350A. Most current high speed Tesla chargers have 500A cables. So the kia EV6, which is 800v, hits 230kW charging, which is 287 amp. And Mercedes Benz ran into issues implementing their 500kW charging, requiring liquid cooled cables. I dont see this megawatt charging being sustainable.
Chargepoint has begun "large scale deployment" of it new Express Plus Power Link 2000, a DC charging station capable of delivering up to 500 kW – twice as fast as Tesla's V3 Supercharger. The only issue is we only know of one car that can handle it.
newatlas.com
