Plug-in hybrids are ideal. They get the cleanliness and efficiency of regen breaking, the efficiency of an electric motor, with the much smaller footprint of a battery 15% the weight of an ev battery. They effectively suppress range anxiety while still heavily incentivizing electricity use instead of gasoline. And when they do run on gasoline in exceptional circumstances, they are running more efficiently than conventional gas cars.
Eurotunnel was not state owned. Yes it can technically go bankrupt, but it won’t.
Well Eurostar is a state owned company. It can’t go bankrupt. But if it starts losing a lot of money, it can be scaled down.
Not at all, corporatism is a system where interest groups have a high amount of power : guilds, syndicates, unions, etc…
Capitalism literally refers to pooling capital together from multiple sources to allow shared risk taking and allow for the creation of companies that can get bigger by having more than one owner.
This eventually leads the way for pension funds and multinational corporations whose sole purpose is to extract maximum value for pensioners and billionaires.
That’s not the definition or foundation of capitalism, it’s the definition of a market economy.
The foundation of capitalism is a system where investors can pool small amounts of money together on big projects, to share risk and reward. Historically to fund trading ships on their way to the indies.
So it destructures ownership, which has a million ripple effects on the organization and economy.
I mean you need the mustard or it won’t emulsify. 2 parts oil for one part of acid is better imho
I mean yes if we’re actively looking for a suspect in a red Renault Clio. But in this case the dude is dead, whether his car is a Mercedes or a BMW is a ridiculously useless piece of information for an article to give.
Well it’s both. Which tells you something about the French. Organized and intolerant to this kind of shit.
Well if you just manage your money properly, it grows. I would argue it’s better to do that and give you money away rather than not manage your money properly. In the end, more money goes to good causes that way.
If they “stopped” that would mean leaving their money in a bank account sleeping. The only entity benefiting from this would be the bank.
He does actually. https://observer.com/2024/09/bill-gates-bernie-sanders-tax-wealthy/
He and warren are some of the smarter billionaires, they realize having infinite money is not actually very useful.
Not to say there’s any thing good about there being billionaires in the first place, but there is a spectrum.
That’s kind of irrelevant.
Nuclear handles the base power generation. Grid storage is meant to handle peaks. It needs to be cheaper than coal, which is also used for peaks.
Anyway, grid storage is already about 200$ per installed kw with lithium. If sodium gets us to 100$, a 1GW installation comparable to a nuclear plant would cost 100 million. That’s like 150 to 300x cheaper than a nuclear plant. And a plant takes years to build, decades even. A storage facility takes days or weeks.
Of course that does not count energy generation, but grid scale storage basically stores free excess energy from nuclear and renewables. So they actually improve the cost efficiency of nuclear and renewables, they don’t compete with them.
It’s basically solved. Sodium batteries are cheaper and much more durable than lithium batteries, and are currently being commercialized. Their only downside is that they are heavier, but that does not matter for grid-scale storage.
Yeah but there’s no more “get out of the rer at the wrong stop and you’re fucked” at least !
They unified the ticket system last year, you can go anywhere with one ticket now.
Barely made a dent commercially, but put the company in a difficult financial situation where build quality was a bit lower and cars a bit more expensive for a while.
The point of these punishments should never be to kill a company, but to hurt investors, who are ultimately responsible for setting the CEOs agenda.
And, well, VW stock is still down about -80% compared to pre-dieselgate. So I would say eurocapitalism working as intended.
Then they will unironically call it the freedom OS
No, what did it was removing headphone jacks and selling only crappy non-repairable headphones.
This is known as the cost disease. As manufacturing gets increasingly optimized, automated and cheap, the share of income that needs to be spent on everything else increases. For example, housing and services like live entertainment or healthcare.
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We said stone age.
It just fully depends on the driver. A PHEV which the driver does not recharge is just a heavier HEV.
But if you have less than 70km to drive every day and have a home charger, there’s barely ever any reason to use gas.
The issue is that many PHEV owners only get one because it allows them to get around regulations for driving in city centers, so they just use the cars as gasoline powered cars.