Majorllama

My little brother said the same thing. I think you’re both right. Clearly that wasn’t enough to push the deal through though.

You don’t need to merge with Nissan to do that if you’re Honda. Just buy out their design team. Much cheaper lol.

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Honestly thank God.

I was really worried about how this was only going to drag down Honda.

I used to love Nissan. They made several of my dream cars.

Unfortunately it’s been quite some time since they made anything very good imo.

Currently have a reputation of meh reliability and meh driving experience.

They don’t offer anything to entice someone away from Toyota or Honda.

I hope Nissan can come back but idk how they do that without a serious overhaul of their whole business from the ground up.

Criminal presidents are so in right now.

What are they gonna start a major war with? Their one “functional” 5th Gen “stealth” fighter that has the radar cross section of a Boeing 747 and no replacement parts?

They gonna start shitting out t-34s again like it’s WW2?

They have lost the majority of their best vehicles and their trained soldiers.

If nukes didn’t exist they would already have been obliterated by now.

See I would have no problem with that but the other people living in this house would have a lot of problems with that. Namely the women. I know for a fact me and the other guys would prefer it but the ladies would never green light something that “ugly” lol.

Yeah at some point you just say fuck it and limp along until the problem is big enough that it’s time for a completely new house or you move.

In our situation it’s one of those things where it just doesn’t seem worth it to properly address because if we are gonna have an electrician cut a bunch of holes in our walls to redo all the wiring we may as well have a plumber cut a bunch of holes in our ceiling to insulate all the pipes they installed in the ceiling crawl space without any insulation. And if we have them cutting holes in every wall and every ceiling we may as we lost have them tear the whole goddamn house down and start over properly lol.

That’s the best part. It’s not in the kitchen. My room is on the complete opposite side of the house. Literally the furthest room from the kitchen.

Whatever drunk moron wired the house back in the 70s did so in such a confusing manner that electricians give us the “fuck no I’m not fixing that” price when we ask them what it would cost to sort out our completely nonsensical wiring. I think the last guy we talked to quoted us 30k and he pretty much flat out told us nobody will ever want to unfuck our house.

I got a UPS cause the breaker to my room likes to trip if I am gaming and someone in the house decides to microwave something for 10 minutes. My desktop, three monitors (2x1080p 60hz + a 1440p 144hz) and my 3d printer all running at full tilt will suck my 1500w UPS dry in about 2 minutes lol.

If I’m not gaming and say just watching YouTube while not 3d printing anything that same UPS can run for almost 15 minutes.

I mean I am all for ending racism, but if we are being honest with ourselves the little “end racism” banner wasn’t doing shit for race relations lol.

Spending time with people outside your bubble is always good even if it’s uncomfortable at first. There are countless records of racist white guys joining the army and leaving with a different perspective on the different races. People raised by racists who then went and spent time being shot at and laughing next to people they had been told were somehow different than them simply because of their skin pigmentation. Many people came back from military service with friends of all nationalities.

Anyway the whole “End racism” banner feels a lot like the “gun free zone” signs. The people who are going to read the sign and listen to it are probably already following those instructions. The people who are going to ignore it and continue on their way weren’t going to read it in the first place.

What’s the famous quote? “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

I think there is a certain accuracy to that statement, but I feel it also fails to recognize the human element involved. We know history now. The average person today knows far more than anyone in the past knew about history ever and yet … We continue to make the same mistakes as a species.

Some people just want to make change regardless of direction. We feel restless when things are going too well for too long. Even if it’s bad change we seek change regardless.

Thsi whole planet has got mental health issues and I don’t know how the fuck we even start resolving that shit.

Yes and no. It depends on what material you are specifically looking for.

For the grand majority of materials needed in an ICE vehicle we have had “ethical” sources for everything for awhile now. Which makes sense the industry has had 100 years to clean up its image as much as they cared to.

The materials needed specifically for large lithium batteries are still currently gathered primally in places where human rights aren’t even considered. People are working on getting that changed, but last time I checked it was still really bad.

While there is no hard rules involved with the word “slightly” when used to describe a change in percentage it is generally used for changes of 5% or less.

Yes this is getting pedantic about the English language but a 20% change would be more accurately referred to as a “moderate” change.

And you are absolutely correct ICE engines are always less thermally efficient than EVs. Your average standard gasoline engine these days is somewhere in the ballpark of ~25% efficient. Some of the more efficient diesel ICEs are up to 50% efficient these days. EVs tend to be around ~90% thermally efficient.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667141723001088#%3A~%3Atext=Typically%2C+most+Li-ion+battery%2C]%2C+[21]].

Also it’s not a 20% loss at 0°C. It’s closer to 50%. Which would be most accurately described as a “significant” loss of efficiency.

https://ev.aaa.com/articles/are-electric-cars-good-in-winter/#%3A~%3Atext=How+much+of+a%2Ccar's+heating+system+is+on.

Even AAA did research that shows it’s anywhere from 10% loss in range to 40% loss as you get colder and colder.

Hey super genius if your have a car that only has batteries inside it as an energy source what do you use to heat up the batteries so the batteries are working inside their correct temperature range? The batteries. Which are cold because you parked it outside in a place that averages close to zero degrees depending on the region and time of year. Sure if you park it in your heated garage and then park it at work at a heated garage and you only ever drive it between those locations the cold will basically hit matter but if you ever leave the car anywhere that it will drop down to ambient outside temps then it will be causing damage to the batteries when they use their own cold juices to get warmed up enough to do their job right.

I know that when charging they will sip power to heat the batteries to the proper temperature for charging (and they heat up a tad naturally when charged), but anyone who isn’t always charging it while parked or leaving inside a heated garage that will not be the case.

Brother what are you talking about. I said they function in the cold. They don’t work well in the cold. They have recommended temperature ranges for a reason. I am simply pointing out the significant hit to battery performance and lifespan that the deep cold adds.

I havent posted any “misinformation”. You can literally verify every statement I’ve made with a number of scientific papers and studies on the effects of temperature and batteries. We have known they don’t work well in the cold for years. I have had to stick an untold number of cellphones into my inner layer pants pockets to prevent them from completely shutting off or refusing to charge because they got way too cold to safely operate.

By owning and driving fully electric cars in the significant cold they are absolutely lowering of the lifespan of those batteries meaning they need to be replaced more often. The batteries are far and away the biggest source of pollution in an EV.

You can call me names and whatever else you want but at least be scientifically accurate.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara

Feel free to do your own research at any point. The materials required for the massive batteries in all those EVs have to come from somewhere and they generally are obtained through slave and child labor in third world countries.

Also your “source” is a privately run show from a former actor and comedian who really likes EVs and he gathered an audience that donate money to him through patron to keep the show going. That’s a biased source if I’ve ever seen one. Of course the guy who makes a living in the EV space is going to do nothing but sing the praises of the Almighty EV.

I feel it bears repeating I am not even again against EVs. I simply do not care for how the EV super fans talk about their stuff. They always seem to pick and choose whatever information is convenient for them and their favorite tech while conveniently leaving out anything negative.

I do believe electric will be the future. We just have some problems to sort out on the energy density side of things. Battery technology still just isn’t quite ready and even if we sick with lithium we need to find a better way to get the materials required.

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My apologies I should have been more specific. It’s a special diesel fuel they call AN8. Generally still referred to simpy as Diesel. The vehicles they put it into are diesel vehicles.

If that’s the case why are all of the vehicles in the Arctic diesel? The south Pole is all diesel.

Anywhere that spends time regularly in the negatives does not use electric vehicles.

I’m gonna need a source on that one chief. If you account for the extremely unclean energy used to mine, process and ship the raw materials for EVs they are absolutely not cleaner for the environment than current efficient ICE vehicle production. To be clear they both create a ton of pollution during production but this claim that EVs are magically cleaner is a crock of shit.

The main difference is we have been producing ICE vehicles for a long time. We have (mostly) ethical mining for the resources required and the whole process has been streamlined over the last 100+ years.

Just because you’ve shifted the pollution from on your street to some poor kids in the congo doesn’t mean you’re suddenly “clean”.

I’m not saying that we need to stay using ICE forever or that EVs are inherently evil. Simply that as the EV market currently sits they are not the clean green machines people often want to pretend they are.