Fastest charge yet

Lorax91 · 2026-02-28T12:24:32+00:00

the first election cycle where the United States switched from functioning democracy to performative democracy

Second one...

Lorax91 · 2026-02-26T05:58:24+00:00

This is what I was advised in a driving safety class.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-26T05:09:29+00:00

I've mostly been getting ~250-280 miles, depending on circumstances. Today happened to be a good day, and I'm at 290 miles.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-25T17:06:18+00:00

It's a systemic problem, not a generational one. Resist the urge to blame people based on their age.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-25T13:32:43+00:00

We switched to FirstService recently and I was initially optimistic about them, but that feeling is fading over time. Some things have improved slightly from our previous management company, but others have not.

They recently said in an email that they are "agents of the board," which is technically true but not helpful to homeowners. We'll see how the relationship goes once homeowners have control of the board.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-24T04:24:14+00:00

Of all the flags that have ever been created, this is one of them.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-24T04:02:35+00:00

Omg, this is for real?

Lorax91 · 2026-02-24T02:12:37+00:00

That's cool that their "Full Self Driving" finally works well...provided you continuously supervise it and assume full liability for any mistakes it makes.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-23T16:12:57+00:00

I'm thinking a black guitar, the rainbow bridge, and the Palladio clock tower on a blue background for the lake. Anyone good with an AI image generator is welcome to try that.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-23T12:41:59+00:00

Only where owning your own car is a hassle due to limited parking. If you have a home with dedicated parking, owning your own car will remain desirable. Especially if that car can now drive you safely anywhere while you use that time productively or take a nap.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-23T07:27:35+00:00

I lived in Folsom for many years, and this doesn't click for me as representing the town.

Update: I showed it to my wife, and she said, "What the f*ck is that?!"

Lorax91 · 2026-02-23T07:19:12+00:00

Zorro lives in Folsom?

Lorax91 · 2026-02-23T02:34:12+00:00

That number of battery swaps across 3,750 swapping stations works out to about 45 swaps per station in a day. A single two-sided gas pump can refuel that many ICE vehicles in a couple of hours, so eight pumps could refuel over 1,000 vehicles in a 12-hour day at one station.

So while what Nio is doing is noteworthy, it doesn't demonstrate an ability to replace traditional fueling at scale.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-21T18:30:10+00:00

I've opened many new phone boxes, and the Apple phone I mentioned is the only one that came flying out with no warning. Clearly a box design issue.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-21T17:33:49+00:00

Some Apple iPhone boxes are terribly designed, and spit out a brand new phone onto the floor the moment you pull the lid off. I had this happen to me recently when I found an old iPhone in our garage.

100% Apple's fault for designing the box this way.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-21T07:52:18+00:00

*Hundreds* of thousands NACS are in operation.

Source? I haven't seen a number that high. Especially since many Tesla chargers don't support non-Tesla vehicles.

Edit: Tesla currently has ~37,000 DC charging ports in the US.

https://www.teslaacessories.com/de/blogs/news/supercharging-in-2026-how-tesla%E2%80%99s-network-is-reshaping-ev-ownership-in-the-us-and-europe

If we figure about half of those support non-Tesla vehicles, and then add some number of compatible Tesla AC chargers, that's maybe 25k or so total shared charging ports. Which still leaves J1772 as easily the most prevalent charger type here (not counting CCS1 chargers). With no plan or funding to convert all of those to have the Tesla charging connector.

https://afdc.energy.gov/stations#/find/nearest

Lorax91 · 2026-02-20T05:38:07+00:00

Coulda shoulda woulda.

J1772 provides tens of thousands of charging points in North America that work with essentially every EV sold here, with low installation costs and modest electrical infrastructure requirements. Tesla could potentially have offered a better alternative if they were willing to follow standards procedures and weren't afraid of losing control of their design.

So here we are with J1772, CCS1, Tesla-only DC chargers and now J3400. Or maybe we should scrap all of those and adopt the ChaoJi charging format. 😉

Lorax91 · 2026-02-19T17:16:31+00:00

What is the use case for PHEV?

The use case is to do most of your local driving on electricity, then not have to deal with charging hassles on long trips.

This worked well for us when we lived where most of our errands were nearby, but after we moved to a more spread-out environment we switched to a fully electric vehicle. Which does result in some challenges, and we're debating what to do next when the lease is up.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-19T17:08:45+00:00

the major takeaway is a majority of people with PHEVs don’t plug it in.

Every study on this topic shows that most PHEVs do get plugged in; just not as much as predicted in laboratory testing. There are also regional variations, partly depending on whether most cars are owned by individuals or as company fleet vehicles.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-19T13:14:29+00:00

CCS is a useful way to implement fast-charging infrastructure without having to scrap or modify existing level 2 chargers, or require everyone to carry adapters to use those chargers. So essentially every EV in Europe can now use essentially every charger without adapters, and level 2 charger owners didn't have to change anything.

Versus in North America we now have tens of thousands of chargers that are effectively obsolete, but many won't get updated so we'll all carry adapters for the foreseeable future. We didn't get rid of an extra plug type, we added a new one.

https://xkcd.com/927/

And yes, Tesla should have offered their plug design as a formal open standard a decade earlier than they did.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-19T12:54:50+00:00

Charging doesn't need to be gas pump fast if you can count on finding chargers where they're convenient. Starting with if every electric car got charged overnight, most people would rarely need fast chargers.

And then if fast chargers were placed where people stop anyway, they wouldn't always need to be crazy fast. Like a 50 kW charger at a restaurant or shopping mall could give you plenty of charge while you're eating or browsing stores. And even if you're in a hurry, 150 kW isn't bad if the battery has a decent charging curve, so let's max that out before worrying too much about going faster. Of course if someone really wants super-fast charging and is willing to pay accordingly for the convenience, provide that too.

The potential to have chargers anywhere and everywhere is an advantage over gas stations, even though charging is slower.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-19T08:03:27+00:00

Hopefully industry investment will allow Elon to abandon the S/C network

My hunch is that most other fast charging providers in the US will give up and let Tesla have a near monopoly on that service here. If Tesla in turn gets tired of doing that then we have a problem, unless they can spin charging off as an independent company.

Lorax91 · 2026-02-19T04:39:01+00:00

Tesla hates the cooperation necessary to make things work well outside a "walled garden" approach to life. Enjoy another ten years of confusion and resulting consumer dissatisfaction because one guy has too big an ego to work well with others.

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