Might skip that one then, always wanted a Mustang so might just get one of those instead, doubt they do electric ones of them though
Yep, I've heard about the Grabat battery. Very exciting prospect. Couple of points. Nothing is perfect, and lithium mining is nothing like as bad as extracting oil. Lithium batteries don't really suffer from bad memory effects, and can be kind of wiped clean, so to speak. And they're 97% recyclable, so to some extent, one gets to a point where you don't need anymore. Also I've been hearing, remarkably, the recycled material works better/more efficiently than the original - I need to find something, somewhere to confirm that though. I sort of wish Tesla would share their lithium battery technology with everybody, because they are about 5 years ahead of everyone else in that field, and they'll go a bit further, having purchased a company called Maxwell, which produces a dry battery tech which is far cleaner to make, is rather more energy dense, with much longer life and recharge/discharge times. Maxwell/Tesla are being fairly secretive about the anode and cathode material, as you'd expect, but I've a sneaky feeling that the tech is a little bit like the Grabat. A refresh of the Model S and X is coming later this year along with major extensions to battery range, power, charge times and life time expected. So Graphenano need to get going with their tech.
You, Me both Fran. Thing is, providing we keep each car we buy in as good a tune as possible, we are arguably doing less damage to the planet than those who buy new. But times do come along to buy new, and hopefully during those times the people will buy electric. And when every car is electric, it 'll be a much cleaner environment. Then the EVs will filter down to you and me. One day, I will buy a new one, or a very newish secondhand one and that can see me out. Solar on the roof and battery storage. That'll do me. Did you know that we are currently two continuous weeks and counting without burning coal for electricity in the UK?
Another employee gone postal in the US and killed 13 fellow employees and injured many more....described as the worse shooting since November. Wow, as long as that! Obviously the easy availability of guns is a major part of the problem, but there must also be something wrong with the America psyche that means they struggle to deal with disappointment and conflict. Yes, we don't have ready access to lethal weapons, but we rarely go round smacking our fellow employees either, so there has to be some underlying difference between the two societies. The most savage response from the average Brit is pursing of lips.
2SLGBTQQIA [two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual] Just found this description in an article delineating a group of people...I actually laughed out loud....surely not the effect they were going for when discussing an issue they care about. Are people happy to be lumped together in this way as if all their problems are the same?
Just started to answer a couple of questions in an online survey about 'improving the online experience'. It gave me multiple choices. I wanted the choices to include: 1] Youtube to have a clear option where I can completely stop it recommending videos to me. I mean NEVER do it YT. EVER. 2] BBC and other news and sport video sites to have the clear option to permanently stop auto-starting the next video, that is absolutely of zero interest to me. When I say OFF, I mean OFF. Not on again when I next access the site. 3] Various websites to stop showering me with notifications after I tiptoe in just to confirm that I'm not interested in their content. Actually, it's more serious than it might seem. I'm actually ducking out of enquiring of websites, videos and such because I don't want the shower of crap that comes forth from it. Last year I tentatively opened a Facebook account to join up with someone I was helping, and the shower of sh*t that resulted just for me being there made me end up closing the account as soon as my mission was over. 4] Google to stop asking me if that was me after I access my emails from someone else's computer. That's the whole point of web-based mail - portability. I know that it's generally a good thing for security, but they've lost a large point in having gmail. 5] When I scroll down a web news page and the embedded video that I scrolled past because I wasn't interested in it follows me down the page and starts playing. And that's every time I come back to the page even though I turn it off every time asap. A permanent shut off please. 6] Android phones not having the flexibility to include 'Copy to Clipboard' in their sharing menu, because it's deemed old fashioned, and because they want to kill it off. Yes, you can access it elsewhere, but why be less helpful, Google? Just a few off the top of my head. There are loads more. Interestingly, the survey didn't include any of those answers as options. Of course, they wouldn't. That would actually be helpful.
Volkswagen have had an epiphany. The company that was the headline act in the global scandal drama 'Dieselgate', brings you 'The 12 Myths of E-Mobility'. https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/stories/12-myths-of-e-mobility-5031 It's all very welcome. But it is just words, at the moment. In the meantime, VW still make millions of FF vehicles per year. Perhaps they should stop ASAP?
