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fizzle

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  • It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

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  • The maximum weight for a tractor-trailer rig in the United States is 80,000 pounds, 40 short tons or 36.36 metric tons.

    I'm not sure what you're getting at with this. Here in Australia road trains haul 90 metric tons of grain and fertilizer all the time, that doesn't include the weight of the trailers.

    Regardless, I'm not quite sure what you're trying to illustrate - your example of a "streamlined vehicle" undoubtedly consumes a lot more diesel than your example of a vehicle which is not streamlined. Isn't that antithetical?

    In terms of torque, EVs have a significant advantage.

    Yes, but a "truck" with a 4 ton towing capacity obviously needs motors with more torque than those on a tesla.

    The additional energy required to accelerate the additional weight up to speed isn’t that much of a problem as an EV will get that back with regenerative braking. Well, some of it.

    As little as 5 to 10% on the highway, not particularly significant. Installing regenerative brakes on a trailer is a lot of additional cost and complexity.

  • AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees

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  • It depends on the level of your objection I guess.

  • It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

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  • I don't know enough about physics or cars to really rebut you but this doesn't seem plausible to me.

    I don't think aerodynamics are particularly relevant to towing? Prime movers (tractor trailers?) are about the least aerodynamic vehicle there is but they regularly tow more than 100 tonnes at highway speed.

    If I had to guess I'd suggest the primary problem is the relationship between system weight of the vehicle and load, battery capacity, and the battery's weight. As in, if you want to be able to cart 1 ton for 200km then the additional battery requirement is another 300kg so that's really only an extra 700kg so you need more battery and heavier frame and so on.

    Another problem I suppose, and I emphasize that this is supposition, is optimising motors for both torque and speed. The torque required to break inertia with lots of weight in sandy or muddy terrain.

  • It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

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  • I know this sounds really pathetic to say out loud now that it's a confirmed flop, but I never liked the look.

  • AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees

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  • I don't think employees can really be separated from the company mission. They might not be the ones who benefit the most, but they still receive some benefit in exchange for producing the outcome.

    People resign from roles on ideological grounds all the time.

  • It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

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  • Simplified design and easier printing sounds like a very practical purpose.

  • ænyøne with me?

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  • Hard milk

  • I'm in!!!!

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  • The tesseract dev felt you didn't belong in their vision of an ideal platform.

  • sadge

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  • some personal vendetta

    Seems like it's hubris / arrogance - a poorly considered attempt to create some kind of ideal social experience.

  • Tesla falls 10%, Alphabet sinks 5% as AI spending concerns spook investors

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  • Actually I'm not so sure about North Korea.

    This is a "law" I just made up but: in any crisis the poorest are the worst effected.

    NK does have some trade with China and Russia, and they receive aid from places. I presume the ruling class supports itself through offshore investments and so on.

  • What is your take on romantic love? How do you experience it?

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  • Its a cultural paradigm we overlay on top of the hormonal responses we've developed over milennia, in order to reproduce and then give our offspring the best chance at doing the same.

    As evidence I'll suggest that even today's cultures have different concepts of "love", but this is especially true as you look back through history.

  • Trump BBC Defamation Lawsuit Backfires Big-Time—With Subpoenas Coming

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  • No journalist or agency wants to be involved in a lawsuit with POTUS.

  • TIL neo-nazis made pilgrimages to Hitler's former home, so Austria made it a police station

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  • If I lived in a suburb and nazis were always coming to visit whatever thing I would want to dismantle that thing to stop the nazis coming.

  • Trump BBC Defamation Lawsuit Backfires Big-Time—With Subpoenas Coming

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  • The problem is that the bullying works even if it isn't really successful.

    Next time a producer is considering whether to publish something, they're less likely to say something controversial about little-T because no one wants the bother of a lawsuit with POTUS even if it worked out ok last time.

  • US greenlights Saudi nuclear enrichment without safeguards: Report

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  • That's great. Really fabulous. Throw it over there on the pile of other irreversibly harmful stuff Trump has done, either for his own glory, or because someone tricked him, and that he won't be around to see the consequences of.

  • Had to put the haircut on this

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  • I doubt he believes m ch of the vile trash he peddles. I'm certain he finds most of his subscribers unbearable.

  • Do you feel a recent sudden redditification of lemmy ?

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  • Its a very narrow dpgraphic of reddit users though, of course it's going to be different, not necessarily better.

  • In Major Shift, Trump Admin Prioritizes Fight Against ‘Left-Wing Terror’ Over Islamic Extremism

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  • You have a source for that? Women and daughters being abducted from their husbands and fathers and never heard from again?

  • Trump Accidentally Proves That Putin Did Help Him Run for President

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  • Obligatory "if any other president did this..."