It isn’t the $20 is the most counterfeited. The $100 is second. However if you live outside of the US the $100 is somewhat more common so depending on where you live what you see might not match reality.
At least according to every search I can find.
I bought a used EV, and the loan is massive and more than I can afford (but I didn’t have a choice - my area is car dependent and I go many places too far for my bike)
Where I live the larger problem is heating the battery in winter. Cooling needs to be done as well, but batteries don’t like the cold temperatures we get in winter.
So far car batteries are mostly lasting except for the Leaf which has a known bad design. Everyone else has put in proper thermo management, and so while batteries have degraded a bit over time, the cars are generally considered perfectly usable. I’m sure there are exceptions, but in general there isn’t demand for battery related repairs in EVs. Only time will tell of course.
That is a headline yes. However I have not been able to trace it down to anyone who is independent and has looked at what it really means. There are too many ways to cherry-pick numbers to make a point. I don’t want headlines, I want someone who understands traffic safety and how to work with numbers to do an in-depth analysis. This is hard work, and so far it is missing (except as done by the self driving companies and thus biased)
"reiterates that “59 people have been killed in over 3,000 crashes involving Tesla’s self-driving software in the U.S. since 2021 alone”
more than 42,000 people were killed on the road in just the US alone, almost all by human drivers!
The real need is not perfection, it is at least as good as humans. Better than humans would be nice. Don’t be fooled by statistics, they can be manipulated to say whatever you want, and it isn’t just Tesla doing it!
Sadly even though I’m sure data exists I’ve never seen anyone independent publish anything trust worthy on how self driving compares to humans. All I’ve seen is data from someone with obvious biases. (they might be right but they still have a bias and so need independent analysis)
Maybe, but that isn’t clear. Like I said, I don’t have fuel source statistics, even though that is important. I suspect it is too early to gather those statistics.
The Prius has some battery replacement, but my impression is most of them the battery lasts for life, only in a few cases is it seen as worth it to replace a battery (or just a dead cell?). EVs have not been around long enough to really develop this industry - if it ever will develop.
The leaf is an outlier - their battery management system was poor and it killed the battery in ways that nearly every other make avoids. The leaf sold in enough numbers, long enough ago, that I’d expect to see an industry to replace the battery if one will happen and it doesn’t seem to be as large as one should expect. This is a sign of something - but what it is too early to tell.
Retail will take anyone and train them which is why it is so easy.
Every other job needs someone with special skills and so they are selective and hard to get in. Even though most people don’t work retails, there is much more competition for these jobs, and a lot less job in any given specialty. The better the job the less competition there is - but there still is plenty of competition.
Which means you need to not ask for “a job”, but select the specific job and then set yourself up to be good at that on your own time. The more specialized you get, the better a chance you have a job in that specialty - but the worse chance you get at any other job! Which means choosing the right specialty is critically important. Good luck (usually it too bad though as most things have enough demand).
The worst part: once you get a job they start teaching you the skill for that. It is really hard to change latter because you go from an expert to beginner.
Remember what others have said though: who you know is more important that what you know! So figure out who you know! Figure out what they can maybe get you into, and apply the above in consideration of that. Sometimes people will tell you what they can help you with, sometimes they won’t know but you can guess.
I suspect he is wrong - the average car is 12 year old, which means there are a lot of cars older than 24 years old still on the road. Of course cars do wear out and get scrapped, but just looking at broad statistics we should expect most EVs made since 2002 (after the EV1) are still on the road (this is broad statistics which doesn’t consider fuel source at all - even though it is an important consideration I don’t have data!) Which is to say there is no reason to think there are large numbers of batteries ready to be recycled. The first EVs are only now entering the phase where they are going to start getting scrapped - and there were not a lot of any of them made.
There likely is a good business to be made recycling used car batteries. However if you want to get into it now is not the time to expand/scale , now is still time to be designing and testing the machines and processes you will be using when you scale. Anyone in this business should expect to still be losing many - your business plan should have real data showing real data of when you expect cars to be scrapped in numbers large enough to be wroth scaling.
don’t blame capitalism. People are that shortsighted about everything. In your own niche you are not but I don’t have to know anything about you to state with 100% confidence that you have already been shortsited about something in your life.
On the other hand you can’t do everything correctly - you don’t have enough time. You have to make hard choices about where you place the redundancey. Aften people focus an the last crisis and so they over invest in fire protection in the next house after a house burns - but the odds of a house fire are still low and they are likely putting less into the real next problem - whatever it will be.
Claude is very good when driven by someone who knows how to do the job and demands perfection. However if you give it a prompt and take the first result it is normally junk, make it iterate and things get better.
don’t label with panel slot - too often you need to move things and so those are incorrect anyway
the box needs to be accessable. The drop ceilling counts but something perminant ceiling would not.
There is a station I used to listen to 8 years ago when I saw heavy traffic (to decide if I need an alternate route) - this is in a tiny city which rarely has traffic issues. everyonce in a while I hear it in a store a something and I still know the song that will be next.
Rotating passwords are less secure pecause people chorse a short password and then append an incrimenting number. Thus if it leaks for any reason the attacker knows them all.
If you only force rotation after a known breach (that you admit to) people choose a new - good - pasword. Make sure the source of the breach is fixed though or people will give up when it happens too often
i set things up so I’m close to net zero, owe the state a tiny amount, tiny refund from the feis. There is no hurry, but I want them done late March just in case there is something weird I need to figure out (which has happened a couple times over the decades I’ve been eoing them.)
As a parent, most of the worry is just unreasonable fear. If you want kids have them. Sure they are expensive, but they will take so much time you won’t be able to do a lot of the other things you were spending money on before. I find it well worth the costs (this is of course a matter of opinion)
The printing press is a very new invention in our universe. Before then books were for the rich. Often too history is written by the victors and so it missing a lot of important details that might or might not matter.
Come to think of it intelligent life such as could write books seems to be new. (but we have no ability to detect life elsewhere if it exists so who knows)
In the 1970s some car makers advertised that there would be no damage to the bumper/car at all at 5mph.
The problem is people don’t want a focused community. They want a broad community so when they have a question they can ask and find an expert - but not so broad that the noise means they can’t follow anything. We do focused communities because the world (or even internet) has too many people and so the noise of all the discussions is too much. However that isn’t what we want.