Which EV maker has a model whose range doesn’t diminish in cold weather?

There are a few things to consider.

1. She’s just 8, so you have an easier time controlling what she does (I say this with the experience of rising 2 children to adulthood)

2. She might not be susceptible to these things

3. You just might be a better parent for any arbitrary reason

So as an anecdote your situation is valuable, but as a guideline to how the whole society should handle this problem possibly not so much.

Do you really have nothing of genuine merit to be proud of? All you have is your thermostat?

No, that’s it. That’s my whole identity and existence. Spring is coming, send help.

Ok, sorry for leaving them out. Americans and Brits cannot science.

I watched the first generation that got personal unrestricted mobile phones for themselves. Somehow I thought it was a good idea at the time. It fucked them up mentally, and then Covid-19 came and doubled the effect.

Now I think that a parent who gets their under 12 year old kid a smart phone should be treated roughly in the same way as if the parent gave the kid cocaine.

Ooh, ok. That makes quite a lot of sense. Especially if one uses the miles/km number to show battery state, people are gonna get screwed by the cold. I changed that thing to percentages pretty soon after I got the car.

I honestly don’t understand why people are buying EVs if they don’t have the option of home charging.

Yeah, that doesn’t make much sense.

I was initially confused but after remembering how Americans cannot science and 0F =~ -18C this made a bit more sense.

My Tesla worked fine through several days of -35C though, but the battery efficiency was a bit shit. I think I spent something like 6-8% just to get the cabin warm, but starting the car or driving generally speaking was never a problem.

Their Q4 2023 results will be called in on 24th this month, so we’ll see soon. They were still making profit in Q3, even if dwindling.

Quality, price, availability.

Volkswagen EVs are pretty crap though. Teslas are way above them even if VW is catching up. There’s a reason why they fired a lot of C-level people and other execs in the software side last year.

Are they though?

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I can feel the disgust of the car being related to Elon Musk, but at least the newer Teslas are actually great cars. Not sure where this idea of poor quality comes from. My previous car was a Toyota and I don’t really miss it at all.

When I was making my choice of an EV, Polestars were too expensive and the Hyundais were too synthwave and gray. Volkswagens were shit. Tesla was practically the only choice.

I do hope there will be more serious competition the next time I have to choose. But I’m hoping I won’t have to make that choice in at least 5 years.

What do you mean by this? CEOs are fired from companies all the time.

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Or, there is plenty of competition even now, but since users are the product, not the customer, the competition isn’t what people think it is or should be.

I mehhed out on Outer Wilds because of Brittle Hollow and Hourglass Twins. Great game certainly, magnificent atmosphere, clever-in-a-good-way plot and premise, just not quite for me. Watching my daughter play through it was more fun than playing it myself.

I thought about playing the good and bad endings of Undertale, but it started to feel like work so did not. Plus I estimated that the Sans fight would’ve made be break something.

MacBook Air

Which model? :) The current Macbook Airs don’t have fans.

What kind of noise does that emit in idle and during high cpu usage?

Nobara is superb for gaming.

Manjaro is one of the few that tries to package sway and i3 (even if the editions are community-based) into a coherent whole. Those editions are not great yet, but pretty good and might become great one day.