In todays news...

[gremlin]

A video portal was set up to allow New Yorkers and Dubliners to see each others culture but Dublin council doesn't want people to see Irish culture. WTF did they expect?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1882x5xggo

Pictures of the twin towers burning might have been a bit much but generally it's just funny, maybe they should have thought about how pub kicking out time in Dublin is early evening in NY.

Give a drunk man an audience and I guarantee his arse will be on display within two minutes.

[irie]

Third world country.

https://news.sky.com/story/warning-to-b ... d-13136216

Warning to boil drinking water in Devon area after 22 cases of diarrhoea disease confirmed

The UK Health Security Agency, which is leading an investigation into the outbreak, has confirmed at least 22 cases of disease have been detected. People living in two different areas have now been told to boil their tap drinking water by South West Water.

By other accounts there a large number of other people suffering varying degrees of illness.

[Taipan]

Tyson Jury's dad is an even bigger thug

https://news.sky.com/story/tyson-furys- ... s-13135242

He really is a cock and an embarrassment. I note he apologised to "His Excellency", but not the lad he headbutted!

[irie]

This is a big deal. A precursor of the forthcoming battery revolution with batteries expected to have ~4 times the energy density ...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos- ... 024-04-25/

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Chinese electric vehicle (EV) battery maker CATL (300750.SZ), opens new tab on Thursday unveiled a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery with a driving range of more than 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) on a single charge.

[Horse]

It's an even bigger deal if it gives the Chinese a massive boost.

They're already leading the way on EVs.

[Mr. Dazzle]

It's an even bigger deal if it gives the Chinese a massive boost.

They're already leading the way on EVs.

Said it before, but...the Chinese stand a very good chance of putting BMW, Mercedes, Ford etc out of business if the latter don't pull their socks up.

Western governments are already putting massive tariffs on Chinese EVs to prevent such an outcome. Remains to be seen how long that can last.

Plenty of news links to slowing EV sales of course...but the US now have a 100% import tariff on Chinese EVs. Why do you need such a tariff if noone wants to buy an EV

It is worth remembering though that an LFP battery (as per thst link) typically has lower energy than the sort you'd find in most EVs. I don't think that news article it revealing any great new breakthrough, they've just made a very big battery. Hence why then mention range and not kWh.

[Mussels]

It's an even bigger deal if it gives the Chinese a massive boost.

They're already leading the way on EVs.

Said it before, but...the Chinese stand a very good chance of putting BMW, Mercedes, Ford etc out of business if the latter don't pull their socks up.

Western governments are already putting massive tariffs on Chinese EVs to prevent such an outcome. Remains to be seen how long that can last.

I don't think any other country wants to risk being beholden to China for essential goods, I can't see it getting better for China any time soon.

That battery announcement sounds great if I make a few assumptions about size, charging time, lifespan, cost etc. I don't like assumptions.

[wheelnut]

Plenty of news links to slowing EV sales of course...but the US now have a 100% import tariff on Chinese EVs. Why do you need such a tariff if noone wants to buy an EV

US policy isn’t always based on need, it’s often based on which lobbyists shout the loudest.

[irie]

Plenty of news links to slowing EV sales of course...but the US now have a 100% import tariff on Chinese EVs. Why do you need such a tariff if noone wants to buy an EV

US policy isn’t always based on need, it’s often based on which lobbyists shout the loudest.

Solve the range anxiety issue and halve prices. Watch demand soar.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Indeed, but as far as I can work out that Chinese battery in the news article does neither of those things, it's just really big! LFP tech is quite old.

Mercedes have already built prototype leccy cars with demonstrated >1000km range without using a meganormous battery, they're in the news. This ain't new. The challenge is making them so people can/will buy them.

https://group.mercedes-benz.com/innovat ... -eqxx.html

[KungFooBob]

That EQXX looks just like the Audi e-Tron GT, which isn't a bad thing, I think the GT is the best looking Audi by a mile and I don't usually like Audis.

[irie]

Might now be able to claim his 72 virgins?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog ... g-aircraft

Iran helicopter crash live news: President Raisi, FM on missing aircraft

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on board the helicopter that suffered a “hard landing” in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, says Iranian state media.

[ogri]

Electric vehicles is a very short term solution until viable alternative solution is found, the carbon footprint for electric vehicles is horrendous, they will be banned soon after petrol/diesel solutions. Most other maker apart from China and musk solutions are actively looking at other options including hydrogen.

[Bike Breaker]

Electric cars were on the roads getting on for 150 years ago but didn't catch on because they were powered by battery and had a limited range. All these years later we have a similar problem.

[Lutin]

Mercedes have already built prototype leccy cars with demonstrated >1000km range without using a meganormous battery, they're in the news. This ain't new. The challenge is making them so people can/will buy them.

https://group.mercedes-benz.com/innovat ... -eqxx.html

If you read the article the "1,000 Km range" is qualified -

Range figures preliminary and based on digital simulations in real-life traffic conditions. The VISION EQXX has not undergone type approval or homologation

So, not there yet in the real world.

[Mr. Dazzle]

They've actually driven it more than 1000km on a single charge, it's not entirely theoretical. They also drove from Stuttgart to Silverstone and did a couple of laps at the end, all on one charge.

It's a prototype like I said...not even a prototype, a technology demonstrator.

The point is, people are already starting to make much longer range electric cars which don't just rely on a huge battery which takes days to recharge. That's as much the future as fancy new battery technology.

[Pirahna]

There's a Harry's Garage video on the Merc from last year, I'll have a look for it later.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Most other maker apart from China and musk solutions are actively looking at other options including hydrogen.

People say this alot but it's generally fundamental misunderstanding.

Said it loads of time, but any serious hydrogen car is still going to be electric and it'll probably still have a (small) battery too. Hydrogen combustion cars which go brum-brum just don't make any sense - they're way less efficient, you still have the noise (which most people don't like) and crucially you still have NOX and similar emissions. The only reason manufacturers would persist with Hydrogen ICE cars is so they can sell V8s and V12s with enormous profit margins, same reason they sell V8s and V12s which run on dyno juice.

Synthetic fuels are a joke, even more the case they'll be used to power exotic cars sold at huge profit margins. Hence why it's people like Porsche and not Dacia really pushing them.

All the 'normal' Hydrogen cars - if they ever come to the fore - will be fuel cell electric, as indeed is already the case with most of the Hydrogen cars you can buy right now.

[gremlin]

Catfight in Congress....

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69004633

[Yorick]

Catfight in Congress....

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69004633

Can't they speak English?