God Emperor of Mastodon (new account)

@michal@sapka.pl

This is my new, future account. While most interaction still happen on the bsd.cafe one, I aim to migrate fully here.

I am posting mostly culture, emacs, bsd and anti-ai based ramblings. I don't curse and I try not bait people into pointless anger rages.

I am a nerd (or dork? I don't know), a software engineer and I started to hate what technology has bacame.

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[?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
@michal@sapka.pl

In Poland, AFAIR, a car needs to drive 40-60k km/year to offset battery production.

My car is at 170k after 20 years ;p

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    [?]Ben Rosengart [he/him] » 🌐
    @fivetonsflax@tilde.zone

    @michal I don’t understand why it would be a yearly amount. The battery is only produced once. Are they working backwards from a presumed max car lifetime or something like that?

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      [?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
      @michal@sapka.pl

      Because the car has a huge battery and making batteries is extremely destructive, I think.

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        [?]Ben Rosengart [he/him] » 🌐
        @fivetonsflax@tilde.zone

        @michal I get that. What I’m asking is, the battery is produced only once, so why would the payoff distance be a _yearly_ number?

        The only way I can make it make sense, is if they’re assuming a car will be off the road after X years, so they’re dividing the payoff distance by X and calling it a yearly amount.

        It seems weird to me because car lifetimes are commonly measured in distance driven rather than years.

        Is that clearer?

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          [?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
          @michal@sapka.pl

          I think it's easier to think about? It's a unit I've seen before, and it seems widely used (https://carbone4.com/en/articles/analysis-faq-electric-vehicles)

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            [?]Ben Rosengart [he/him] » 🌐
            @fivetonsflax@tilde.zone

            @michal this gives an absolute number of km driven, see highlighted section

              [?]nSonic » 🌐
              @nSonic@troet.cafe

              @michal I think that’s wrong. It not „per year“ but an absolute number. After about 30k to 60k kilometers the ev is better. Don’t know who brought in the „per year“ claim … but i have an idea …

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