Cars got electrified, nobody in 2026 looks at the EV industries success and thinks “what a bad idea”

But plenty of people in the late 90s did when the EV-1 came out with its lead-acid and later NiMH batteries. Modern EV battery tech wasn’t built for EVs, it was built for general applications, worked its way into consumer electronics and then from there into EVs. In fact, many modern EV batteries are made up of 18650 cells which were first used in laptops.

The Donut labs thing would make sense if they were also spinning off an energy company and just using the motorcycle business to get attention. Tesla and Ford have already successfully spun off energy branches though in their case it’s more to take advantage of their production capacity over any major leap in battery tech.

Random link says global motorcycle sales are $174 billion.

https://www.freedoniagroup.com/industry-study/global-motorcycles

Ford motor company sold $183 billion in 2025 alone.

https://s205.q4cdn.com/882619693/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/Ford-Q4-2025-Earnings-Press-Release.pdf

Motorcycles are just such a small market compared to the application space for a high performance EV battery. It makes no sense to limit a new battery to that.

Of course it is. If you had the technology to create a revolutionary battery, you wouldn’t waste time with the motorcycle business.

https://youtu.be/r3fD5FPQBtI

You forgot to put it in a PDF and charge $2 million.

Betcha on land they understand Bet they don’t reprimand their daughters

Mermaids are famously delusional about the lives of humans.

does the UI just render blank squares in that case?

AWS wasn’t profitable because they were reiinvesting all their revenue back into growing the service. If they chose to stop growing, they could have been profitable at any point.

AI as an industry is actively, violently unprofitable. They can’t even afford to keep the lights on without torching investor money. The more they grow, the faster they lose money.

Love it. Yes.

Primer

Insanely low budget, very realistic depiction of engineers. Super complicated plot which gives it great replay value.

If you watch it for the first time, the audio sync issues are not part of the plot. They had to re-dub a lot of the movie and they didn’t do a great job.

🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹FLASH!

I was waiting for this story after I saw that on my inbox.

Waiting until “plex pro” and they slowly sunset features on the original plex lifetime pass.

Hey look! We rediscovered netbooks!

Might have to dust off my EeePC.

I believe that minimizes capacitance. My question is why diagonal at all. Maybe it helps with adhesion during the manufacturing process?

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Electrical Engineer here. Pretty sure the slit is to break up the metal in the card so it won’t interfere with NFC.

If you look at an NFC antenna, it’s a big coil of wire. It’s energized by an oscillating magnetic field that passes through it. Faraday’s Law dictates that when a magnetic field oscillates, an electric field will form around it. This electric field generates a current in the antenna that powers the NFC chip.

In a metal card, the current will flow in the card instead and draw energy away from the NFC chip. This slit blocks that current flow so that the current flows in the antenna instead.

Oh I’m sorry. I thought you said that the wheels were falling off. So they’re not falling off then?

The Cybertruck doesn’t have a steering column. They’re steer-by-wire. That may explain why the wheels were able to move so quickly. The steering ratio changes dynamically depending on vehicle speed.

You pilot the Cybertruck with a yoke that sweeps through its full range of motion in just 340 degrees—less than one complete turn. That’s possible because the relationship between the driver’s input and the resulting angle at the front wheels is written in code, with all the infinite possibilities that implies. Tesla uses that flexibility to give the Cybertruck the quickest steering of any production vehicle at parking lot speeds and more relaxed responses at highway speeds for smooth, steady control.

The driver is just wiggling the steering wheel to try to free the front tires.

I keep trying to block reddit, but half of the good practical advice and troubleshooting help is trapped there.

If anybody has a giant directory of active messageboards, I’m all ears.

Well after whatever period of time, the option to even request a chargeback on your account portal goes away. Not sure how you’d even proceed at that point, but I imagine it involves an incredible amount of being on hold.