I know the resistive heater in my Volt can’t compare to the heat put out by the ICE.

the ICE generates an insane amount of excess waste heat as a byproduct, so you have a virtually unlimited supply. The Volt is a PHEV so resistive heating was probably not considered super important.

If the heat pump can put out more heat for less energy

There’s no if about it, it is ~300% more efficient.

That might be the second biggest issue (next to range)

They are the same issue. Less energy used for heating = more range.

Lots of people consider only their commute

No they don’t.

The frequency of 200+ mile trips is vastly overestimated by anti-EV people

The frequency is irrelevant. Again, if you want to go on a single trip, literally ever, in the entire time you ever own that vehicle, it needs to be able to make that trip, and it needs to be able to do it in a reasonable about of time.

A half-dead 2011 Leaf would still cover my 40-mile round trip.

If you only ever drive back and forth to work, then I feel really really sorry for you, but you are an extreme minority in that sense.

Installing an OS is so easy even I can do it, and it only takes about a half an hour on a modern machine.

As a bonus you can pick and choose whatever cases and other components, and get the most performance for your money.

Not trying to tell you what to do, but if you haven’t tried you should give it a go. Bazzite is really awesome and I use it on my living room PC. Only thing it’s missing is HDMI-CEC to turn on automatically and the sleep/resume function and the power up with controller.

Sounds like the dust was not the problem.

Not sure what your point is. I never said anything to the contrary.

No, people reading scholastic documents and drawing the wrong conclusions is how we got into this mess.

Yes that was my point.

The fact checkers were not incompetent, they weren’t involved at all.

I’m glad that works out for you.

Most people aren’t road tripping in their electric vehicle every day.

They can’t road trip ever if the vehicle doesn’t have sufficient range. I don’t understand how you can even be in this conversation when you don’t understand basic principles like this.

If you don’t understand how temperature affects battery chemistry, capacity, and charging

I understand how it affects all of these. It doesn’t cause any of it to “not charge properly”. EVs are used in the coldest places in the world with no major charging problems.

Nah, there are lots of devices that have them already, notably the Legion Go.

The average commute is 52 miles. Most EVs sold in the US have a range of 250 miles or more.

No one cares about “average commute” when buying an electric car and considering the offered range. They’re thinking about long trips.

So a resistive heater eating 10% of your range is way less of an issue than your battery not charging properly in cold weather.

Who said anything about batteries “not charging properly”? What does that even mean?

heat pumps should be available, but they aren’t going to save you if cold weather kills your battery.

We’re not talking about killing batteries, we’re talking about electric range. Heat pumps extend your electric range and 20 miles can absolutely be the difference between making it to the next charger or not.

Driver assistance is one of those times I think AI is actually smart and works well.

This is effectively a startup, as Sony doesn’t yet have any of the infrastructure needed to manufacture these. Tesla started out with $100k+ cars as well.

As for legacy automakers? Well they don’t make cheap anything anymore. Just giant trucks and SUVs.

You can buy a Nissan Leaf for <$30k but I would not recommend it at all until they add some sort of active cooling to their batteries. They’re an absolute joke without it. But it is a valid demonstration that it is possible.

Both prices include a complimentary three-year subscription to a variety of in-car features, including the company’s Level 2+ driver assist and an AI-powered personal assistant.

At least you won’t need and probably won’t want either of those things.

the logical thing to do is whatever gets the most people on the site the fastest, not do something that instantly alienates a massive amount of people

Not true. Facebook knows no one is leaving (at least not in any significant numbers). So what makes them money is showing ads. What allows them to show more ads is people staying on the site longer. What keeps people on the site longer is “engagement”. The easiest way to keep people “engaged” is to sow discord.

Just think about it, are you more inclined to comment on an image of a cute puppy, or a post where someone is spreading disinformation?

Honestly its probably for the best. When people started investigating the “Fact checkers”, it was discovered that they didn’t know anything about the checks that were attributed to them.

Why would they be on Zuck’s payroll if they weren’t going to help him?

It defintely is a huge issue, considering resistive heaters use 3x as much energy. Most EVs have a “low range” and anything you can do increase it without adding more batteries and weight and cost, especially in winter, is a huge advantage.

It uses the same amount of energy to create cold as it does to create heat.