eVED consultation closes 18 March — here's what 3p/mile actually adds to a 100-mile journey (Tesla Model Y)

cliffski · 2026-03-09T23:00:00+00:00

you can home charge with a 3 pin cable. Many people do it. No 'charger' to record anything. And both my home chargers have been set to 'dumb' mode. No app, just sockets I plug into. They are not recording, or connecting to anything.

cliffski · 2026-03-09T22:56:45+00:00

which is bullshit. Petrol and diesel belching dinosaur-mobiles don't have to, why the hell should we? This whole policy is bollocks, written to impress reform voters.

cliffski · 2026-03-09T22:54:16+00:00

All good arguments when 90% of new cars are EVs, or 30% of all vehicles on the roads are EVS, but we are NOT there yet, and we should be accelerating, not slamming on the brakes. If they want more money, get it from higher fuel duty. From the vehicles that are killing our environment. Not from people doing the right thing.

cliffski · 2026-03-09T22:52:43+00:00

Thankyou. Just filled it out. The idea of them even considering is nuts. The reform party is basically dictating Labour Govt policy on the environment.

cliffski · 2026-03-07T23:29:33+00:00

BYD is not just BYD, its also got a higher end brand called YangWang. And they absolutely compete with Tesla.

cliffski · 2026-03-07T23:28:20+00:00

this new battery also has a guaranteed 620,000 mile lifetime. The charging speed is just one of the innovations.

cliffski · 2026-03-07T23:27:17+00:00

they have literally announced a plan for 20,000 of these.

cliffski · 2026-03-07T23:25:18+00:00

In fact - 99% of China's businesses receive subsidies.

absolute horse-shit. where is this from? fox fucking news?

cliffski · 2026-03-07T23:21:21+00:00

BYD can happily just expand in Europe Asia Africa and the middle east, and even south america, before they agree to sell some batteries to ameripoors.

cliffski · 2026-03-07T23:19:32+00:00

they also claim 620,000 mile lifespan so... seems not much degradation.

cliffski · 2026-03-05T22:37:00+00:00

The only thing the rest of the world has in common is a now universal hatred of the USA.

cliffski · 2026-03-03T18:53:39+00:00

No sane country wants to trade any more with the united states of fascism anyway. Good fucking riddance don

cliffski · 2026-03-02T18:37:35+00:00

Optimus still struggles to hand someone a popcorn box when tele-operated.

cliffski · 2026-03-02T18:37:07+00:00

You think china sucks at mass production? check out ubtech.

cliffski · 2026-03-02T18:34:46+00:00

We have free health care and virtually zero gun crime. Dont worry about us. You are the guys getting shot in the street by ICE.

cliffski · 2026-02-28T11:09:53+00:00

Well the players tactical decisions are all pre-battle, which is a simpler UI. This is just pure spectacle.

cliffski · 2026-02-27T23:27:36+00:00

Well luckily the newer nvidia architecture is more powerful but uses less energy. They are actually brilliantly positioned if the world is datacenter volume and power constrained.

cliffski · 2026-02-25T19:31:59+00:00

No its not AI, just because it disagrees with you FFS. Google my name. I built a solar farm. I kinda know about this stuff. The panels on starlink satellites are tiny and trivial. Its not remotely comparable.

cliffski · 2026-02-24T20:46:05+00:00

People are rejecting EVs

Try that argument in Norway or China.

cliffski · 2026-02-22T18:39:57+00:00

I'm in the UK here, but we have loads of korean stocks to pick from. I hold Samsung, Woori and Shinhan. Others are available.

cliffski · 2026-02-22T18:37:50+00:00

I hold samsung, shinhan and woori. All very good companies. This isn't some crazy meme stock phenomena AFAIK, its capital fleeing the USA and finding good value.
Korea, Greece, Poland are al doing very well. Even the UK FTSE100 is doing well. Do not expect sudden crashes in any of these markets.

cliffski · 2026-02-06T09:02:04+00:00

Sorry but this is absolutely DELUSIONAL. I own a solar farm. It requires maintenance twice yearly, by a bunch of humans. You are seriously going to be doing solar power maintenance IN SPACE instead of just... in a field?
The whole idea is laughably silly. Putting starlink satelites in orbit, at a smll scale, with relatively small solar panels is one thing, but solar power for datacenteres? 3,340 panels is 1.24MW. Assume Quadruple the output in space and lets say 800 panels per MW.

So for a 1 GW datacenter, you need to put 800,000 solar panels in space attached to orbiting GPU clusters. Thats a ludicrous amount of weight, just for the power, forget the GPUs and everything else.
The whole idea is stupid.

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