Born too late to watch the collapse of the Russian empire, born too early to watch the collapse of the Russian empire, born just in time to watch the collapse of the Russian empire.

As a large language model, I don't have an opinion on this subject.

I'd argue that power is more the issue. All that processor time the antivirus spends scanning and rescanning is a chunk of battery gone.

I guess the people buying pallets of $50,000 cards have had words with Nvidia over their shitty closed-source Linux drivers. It's not like Nvidia have suddenly decided to care about Linux gamers.

That's double-plus ungood wrongthink, citizen. Report for re-education.

But it’s okay, he forgot too.

Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.

It'd make the world a better place, but a big company would make slightly less money, therefore it's unthinkable to even attempt it.

See also: vehicle emissions standards

Okay, but if they don't have the electricity for EVs they definitely don't have enough electricity to waste 2/3 of it turning it into hydrogen and back.

It turns out that people don't become more conservative as they age, they become more conservative as they gain wealth. Millennials and Gen Z aren't.

Selling at a loss is how you build volume and reach the economies of scale that drive down costs.

If you fiddle around half-heartedly putting out small numbers of EVs, you'll never come close to competing with a company that puts out over a million a year. A lot of automakers still aren't willing to commit, and they're whining about the position they chose to put themselves in.

It's definitely easier, simpler and cheaper.

Water cooling can be quieter, though. Some big radiators and you can cool a gaming PC with hardly any airflow.

Some have cooling liquid for the battery and electrical components. Some blow cold air over the battery.

And then there's the Nissan Leaf, which just lets the battery cook, knowing that it probably won't die before the warranty is up.

Though it's a bit more complicated than that - sometimes you want to heat the battery or the passenger cabin, and sometimes you want to heat one thing while cooling the other. A good thermal control system can handle moving heat around as well as getting rid of it or taking it from the surrounding air.

An EV doesn't produce so much heat that it needs powerful cooling like a gas car does, but it does come in handy if you want to rapid charge a few times on a long trip. You can get away without it if you're being gentle with the car and live in an area with a mild climate.