Thanks. That's what I figured. To date, I think only ultralight aircraft that would normally just be high altitude vehicles have viably used electricity for long distances.
Buying old means not purchasing net new products. It's not fully sustainable, but it maintains the status quo and doesn't contribute to more waste. Keeping something old alive and in good working condition is a lower carbon footprint than buying a new EV or Hybrid.
My 1975 was tuned for distance. When I drove it from Key Largo to Seattle, it did 35mpg average over the 3500 miles I drove. That car was lost in an accident, sadly.
25 miles per gallon. 30 minutes would be 12.5 miles on half a gallon.
My current one does about 25-30 mpg. It weighs 1950 pounds. So, yes. It can comfortably do half an hour on one gallon or so and have fuel left to get me to a refill.
They have flat 4 two liter VW engines. Extremely efficient if tuned correctly. One top of that, there is a direct 1 to 1 drop-in electric kit for these. When my current engine dies, I have an electric kit I'll put into it to make it an 914E.
$5 cost. 25,000 pounds. BUT OVER WHAT FUCKING DISTANCE?
$5 gets me 23 miles in my Delica. It gets me 100 miles on my motorcycle. It gets me 30 miles in my Porsche 914. But the article says nothing about distance.
My team would literally get 1000s of applications a month. 95% were AI submitted / created. We couldn't keep up. We implemented an agent to sift through the shit and present us with legit candidates.
Of those, we got between 1 and 2 interviews a month after reviewing what was left over from the above. Of those, over an 18 month period, we offered zero candidates a position.
Of that, we would pass candidates on to a video screening that we would review. Most used AI interview tools to answer our screening questions.
Of those 200 or so, we interviewed 24-32 candidates directly. We recommended 3 to leadership for hire.
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