I wonder how it was sealed. Is glazed ceramic + wax that airtight? The article (nor many very similar ones from other sites) doesn’t give specifics.

Just being forced to talk about how it’s going and what’s blocking can be helpful, so I’m glad you’re questioning for to be more useful, not doing a little rubber-ducking isn’t all bad.

“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” Gretta Pecl of the University of Tasmania told The Guardian. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future.”

But, reason to keep fighting:

Others found hope in the climate activism and awareness of younger generations, and in the finding that each extra tenth of a degree of warming avoided protects 140 million people from extreme temperatures.

Cool, they’re planning:

140 car parking areas and 100 highway interchanges as potential suitable areas for solar deployments.

The article also mentions that all large car parks are required to build solar. I’d love to see requirements like this is the US.

I dunno, Jorch thinks he’s got pretty good chances too.

Calling the police seems like an overreaction. I wonder if they’d be any help with ICEd spots.

The Rivian driver parked across two spots to reach the charging cable. I guess I might do that if I were in dire need or there were a lot of empty stations, but it seems like an easy way to invite conflict.

The headline doesn’t say anything about what I might expect to find in the article, it just claims it’s gonna be great.

The automaker expects EVs to account for 50% of its sales volume by 2025, and to be selling only EVs by 2030.

Unionize!

Another XC40 owner. Mechanically/physically great, software is somewhat flaky. Still forgets seat positions sometimes, backup camera takes a while to boot, etc. And as others have said, range is moderate, and suffers in the cold. Definitely a very sleek vehicle though; we rented a Bolt recently and the XC40 does feel and sound much higher quality. The Bolt does have some features I envy though: flat floors / deep trunk, memory for the lift gate height so it doesn’t crash into our cargo pod, remote start / preconditioning just from the fob without a subscription.

The Ford FAQ strongly imply that you need a Blue Oval membership, but they don’t exactly say you can’t get your own adapter and pay through the Tesla app.

A no-annual fee BlueOval Charge Network membership is required to order your Fast Charging Adapter. Your BlueOval Charge Network membership and Plug & Charge can be used to activate and pay for charging at upgraded Tesla Superchargers.

But Electrek makes it sound like it might be Ford specific:

Tesla Superchargers will also support Plug & Charge for Ford EVs. This means Mach-E and Lightning drivers can simply plug their car in, and it will automatically begin to charge. If you’re not enrolled in Plug & Charge, you can plug in at a Tesla Supercharger, then manually activate the charging session via the FordPass app or via your in-car screen. Notably, the Tesla app is not required at all in the process.

What’s limiting it to Fords now? Can anyone buy an adapter + sign up for a Tesla account, or is there an opt in process for Ford owners’ accounts?

I hear a lot about EV adoption suffering among renters, so from that perspective this is nice.

But:

Itselectric installs Level 2 charger posts that get their power from nearby private buildings who make passive income from partnering with Itselectric. When EV drivers sign up with Itselectric, they’re sent a portable EV charger that’s registered to the driver’s account. They can then plug and charge at any Itselectric charger in Boston and beyond.

Requiring an account and special equipment? I really want to see pervasive simple cc payment for charging.

Which part of it?

At the other end of the spectrum we see the Toyota bZ4X, the Polestar 2, the Volvo C40 and the VW ID.7 Pro.

Can confirm, Volvo XC40 Recharge suffered a huge reduction in range this winter. We can usually make a 120 mile trip using about 50% of capacity, but in 10F weather we couldn’t make it (just barely) on one charge and had to make a stop at a random L2 at a college.

I don’t know why they didn’t sort their chart by deviation, though. Here it is sorted:

Has it improved since launch? Not really.

Volvo XC40 Recharge has buttons for most things (volume, wipers, defrost, …) though climate is on the touchscreen which is annoying. Navigation on the touchscreen is nice. The software is a bit glitchy, though the car itself is very nice.

But I strongly agree: searching for buttons was a big part of our car search.

The conversation.com has an article about sodium ion with this description of potential usage in vehicles:

While a range of sodium-ion cathodes are being developed, the batteries packing the most energy use layered oxide cathodes. These batteries are good enough to deliver cheaper passenger EVs capable of 150-250 miles. Recent analysis has shown that the latest sodium-ion battery packs can even undercut the cost of LFP batteries thanks to their cheaper raw materials.

Time no, money probably. It costs $10-$20 to fully charge at a supercharger.

Martha Wells. Finished the Murderbot series, wrapping up the Raksura. All very much of the same cloth, but I enjoy it.

Also recently discovered Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, I had only read her Temeraire books before.