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

  • @[email protected]
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    1111 months ago

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

    • @Ghyste
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      3211 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        1011 months ago

        I’m getting so sick of the anti-car crowd commenting this stuff on anything related to cars. Like yes, we know, public transportation is good and a great goal. But they’re just so out of touch with reality most of the time.

        • @Ghyste
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          411 months ago

          Seriously. In fact we’re doing both things in a lot of places.

      • @Trekman10
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        010 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months 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
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      110 months ago

      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?

    • BombOmOm
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      -111 months ago

      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?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 months ago

        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.

      • @Trekman10
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        210 months 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?!