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Software Developer

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: April 19th, 2023
  • I’m waiting for battery technology to improve in terms of power density and for infrastructure to improve in terms of power delivery.

    My situation is admittedly unique, I want a low slung comfortable hatchback, I street park, and I need a car that can do 6 hours of road in a single day with no prior planning.

    Since I don’t have a house, I can’t charge at home for peanuts. I instead have to go fight for one of the two 7.5kW stations in my neighborhood and move my car as soon as it’s done charging or get a ticket.

    There’s also only one 350kW station on my way to and from work, and last time I tried it with an IONIQ 5, it took 35 minutes to charge and it was in the middle of buttfuck nowhere at a closed Ford dealership. Work has chargers, but you have to share the output with everyone else so I only gained like 3%.

    To top it all off, battery technology seems to be preventing good long range EV hatchbacks from taking off. I tried the IONIQ 6, and it felt like I was sitting on the floor, but elevated. Bizarre.

  • I’m the kind of 'tism where I can’t get myself to tell white lies and will argue up and down until the truth prevails… sometimes to my own detriment, but I really like to understand the underlying mechanisms and the nuance underneath things, otherwise I feel lied to, and I thusly can’t get myself to feel like I am deceiving others.

    Please share the paper, I’m curious!