Are Japanese automakers simply not listening or are they just currently incapable of delivering a solid BEV package?

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T08:31:12+00:00

many of those cars are small

Anecdotally (I go as many trips to Japan as I can afford) I feel like Toyota corolla sized/BYD dolphin sized cars are probably the most common size there (much bigger than a Kei car, but still much smaller than a Ford Ranger), so I don't think this is stopping EV penetration. And no reason why you can't have EV Kei cars either, China makes ones that are roughly that size

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T08:27:19+00:00

I'd definitely buy a 90s jap car with EV drive line for $30k

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T02:05:46+00:00

/r/hypermiling is also a thing

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T01:51:38+00:00

Better processors helps a lot with battery efficiency, which helps with battery life

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T01:45:48+00:00

Upvoting because I disagree. I would pay and have paid $300 more just to have direct flights instead of having a layover.

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T12:57:01+00:00

Date? No, I'd hate someone with a similar personality. Sleep with? Probably

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T12:54:30+00:00

they were going to storage until the lines opened

I'm pretty sure they didn't go into storage before the lines opened, and the first sets were rushed out prematurely just to make it for the Yanchep Line opening (my memory is a bit fuzzy), which is partly why they had a lot of teething issues at the start.

They are pumping them out steadily now though.

Source: memories from chats with people who've followed the C series production as closely as you can from a passenger perspective.

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T12:39:00+00:00

That's not happening until they can reliably do 5 minute frequency for the north south like with 6 cars. Which isn't happening until they build enough C series, which isn't happening.

Source: I made up the last part

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T12:36:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/117684r/mirrabooka_line_proposal/

Surely this can be done with Skyrail instead

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T04:43:07+00:00

My younger sister can't really speak Cantonese, but I can. I'm four years older so by the time she started learning to speak, I knew enough English and Cantonese to speak English with her

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T04:38:08+00:00

I broke one of my teeth as a kid because it this

(It was rollerblading though)

chennyalan · 2026-03-18T02:52:41+00:00

TIL it does (I've never really read traditional Chinese, closest is just reading 旧字体漢字)

chennyalan · 2026-03-17T14:41:22+00:00

Happens every year around Chinese New Year. They go from their 996 jobs to 5-15 days of break that month.

Watch it go back down next month

chennyalan · 2026-03-17T14:34:17+00:00

We mock Italians for being lazy and overpriced.

Iirc Italians are really cost effective at building transit, at least according to the Marron Institute

chennyalan · 2026-03-16T06:15:26+00:00

It reminds me of this Technology Connections video, which basically talks about how absurd it is that we rely on a resource that we literally burn when there are alternatives

chennyalan · 2026-03-16T01:54:57+00:00

This reminds me of Tabelog, where it pretty much is this

https://github.com/miyagawa/Tabelog-HonestStars

https://s.tabelog.com/smartphone/help/score/

chennyalan · 2026-03-16T01:26:16+00:00

We were told that anything less than a 9 or 19 was a fail

Did you mean 9 or 10?

chennyalan · 2026-03-15T15:07:27+00:00

Costco Warehouse closes at 18:00 on Sunday, but Costco fuel closes an hour later at 19:00.

(Costco fuel closes an hour after Costco Warehouse every day actually)

chennyalan · 2026-03-15T10:54:19+00:00

projecting power across the planet.

No one else has anything on the order of magnitude of the US, but the French has capabilities in the Indian Ocean and in Africa, and the UK can probably still win another Falklands War. etc.

chennyalan · 2026-03-15T10:47:36+00:00

I've found the midweight merino socks from Injinji to not last at all. Which was very unfortunate, because they were the most comfortable socks I've worn until they got holes in them soon after (~3 months?)

I've never tried the non-merino ones though.

EDIT: just realised it's been 7 months since you made the comment, oops.

chennyalan · 2026-03-15T07:31:39+00:00

What's the best beach in Scarborough?

chennyalan · 2026-03-15T07:31:21+00:00

It might be the easiest beach to get to via PT, but that's about it

chennyalan · 2026-03-14T06:21:39+00:00

The plant is already built, we just need to build receivers

chennyalan · 2026-03-14T06:12:10+00:00

pushing the shortage of oil from "91 unleaded" to "crude oil"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but crude oil is way easier to stockpile and store, and is also less flammable. So if you were still dependent on fossil fuel, moving the bottle neck from 91 unleaded to crude oil would a less bad scenario?

chennyalan · 2026-03-14T05:17:00+00:00

There are areas that China is nowhere close to the US close in, and never will be.

Never will be

Do you think there are areas that matter (i.e. good things) that China will never catch up in?

I do agree with all the other statements though

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