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  • Traveling at high speeds just takes a lot of power regardless of fuel, but ICE cars are so inefficient in city driving it makes highways look good in comparison. 25-50mph might be more efficient, but every time you brake that kinetic energy is turned into waste heat, totally negating the benefit of driving slower.

    EVs on the other hand have regenerative braking systems. Rather than using friction to slow the car down, they just use the motors by applying resistance to the wheels. The kinetic energy is used to charge the battery while slowing the car down. You get the benefit of slower speeds without much braking loss, so this is where EVs shine.


  • I hate Tesla and especially the Cybertruck as much as the next guy, but this was a highway test and that sounds like a completely normal result.

    I own a Bolt EV which is rated for 259 miles of range. On the highway, that’s more like ~220. That sounds bad, but the other side of it is that I get ~300 miles of range during my normal work commutes through the city. This is just how EVs are, the estimated range is based on a mixed test. EVs are backwards compared to ICE, you’ll get ~20% less range than the EPA estimate driving highway speeds and ~20% more doing purely city driving.










  • Most of the “major” distros are probably made by red hat

    “Most” being RHEL and Fedora??? Where the hell are you getting this from? Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Suse, etc have nothing to do with Red Hat. Fedora isn’t even controlled by Red Hat, they own the distro but it’s community developed. The Fedora project has moved in directions counter to what Red Hat wants in the past.

    Microsoft has successfully sabotaged the linux desktop by making gnome the default de.

    my dude did you read the article that you linked?