No talking? All the new cars have Grok built in unfortunately. They do, in fact, talk.

Have you looked at the price of a model 3 lately? They're about the price of a moderately equipped Civic... You're not wrong about the stock thing though

Never in my life have I actually lost a cap, but I have been splashed in the face multiple times by those idiotic attached caps.

I don't know, maybe all attention is good attention.

You should look outside of lemmy. In my circle people are genuinely impressed.

They believe what? That there was a car using RCS thrusters to quasi-fly made by Tesla?

If you don't believe that, then you're detached from reality.

Sorry, best we can do is reinvent a bus for the 50th time and make it get stuck at a red light.

I'm curious about the actual energy cost of the compressors tbh. How much battery range will go to car RCS thrusters?

There's this stupid incentive in the Netherlands now where people with an EV charger can get ERE certificates for every kWh they charge, which they can sell for money to the government (I believe). Oil companies then buy these certificates so they can pretend to be green.

And of course everyone with a charger wants this now (you do need a charger with certified meter), because for them it's free money.

Attached caps are there for a purpose. They work. So no, they are not stupid.

What is stupid is that comic which is completely misrepresenting what those attached caps are about to create a false hypocrisy to make fun of (about the caps probably even more than about the Tech bros).

It is strange, to see how it is taking up the same anti-EU propaganda usually spread by Tech bros. The attached caps solve a problem and that is that caps are one of the largest trash types on beaches and in forests. They are such a big issue because due to the small size they are also laboursome to clean. Attached caps considerably reduce the number of separated caps and also of trash as a whole ending up there. They don't really cost more, don't need more resources and you can use them just as easily, if you are not completely incapable of adapting to change on a most fundamental level.

To be fair, the caps do piss me off when they mess up me pouring a drink for the 100th time. But yeah, I just pull them off. I never threw them out separately anyway (who tf would do that???).

When it's the prototype of a vehicle feature, scalability is expected.

Of course, this was just for show, as a distraction from other nasty things that were being done behind the curtains, but it's the principle. Don't show it unless you mean it.

Assuming the same number of panels, if you use X amount of solar power to do Y, then X amount of solar power isn't available for something else and it has to use non-solar. The only thing that increases solar is adding more panels, rather than nitpicking which thing used the solar and which didn't.

The use of energy generally is non-green as long as non-green is a major part of the energy market. Ascribing some end uses of energy as green or non-green is silly and wrong. It is only the production end that can be green or non-green. On the use end all energy is equal.

What's obvious to some is a revelation to others, let them have their moment.

Im not putting it past America