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  • Technology@lemmy.world•EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UKbypartial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 days

    Now they have an option for bluetooth and an app if you install it on your phone… but that’s not a car connected to the internet, and we never installed the app.

    From what I’m seeing its installed on all cars. The app was the primary way to interact with it, and it is indeed internet connected, including location services (so you can find your car on an internet map if you lost it) in 2019 models. The useful features required a subscription, but the basic features showing when you need an oil change (from vehicle telemetry) and being able to schedule service are apparently free for life. However, Acura disable the paid service July 21, 2025. I wouldn’t have any faith they disable the telemetry though.

    The mobile phone radio is apparently in the TCU (Telematic Control Module) which was not an option but installed in all vehicles.

    Here’s a youtube video of someone taking their TCU out of their 2020 RDX if you’re interested.

  • Technology@lemmy.world•EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UKbypartial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 days

    Where did you get this idea? EV’s go through brakes and tires faster than their ICE equivalents because of the extra vehicle weight.

    Oh my, I think you just showed your hand about lack your of experience on the topic.

    EVs (and many hybrids for that matter) use the brake pads significantly less than ICE vehicles because most of the braking energy is recovered from regen. I had a Prius for 9 years and sold it with the original factory brake pads still on it, with likely another 4-5 years of life on them.

    My EV’s brake pads are still at 95% life even with the car being 4 years old.

  • Technology@lemmy.world•US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissionsbypartial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23 days

    So one year of increase

    You’re moving the goalposts of this discussion. We’re talking about 2025-2026 activities. From the OP article:

    "According to the Energy Institute’s latest Statistical Review of World Energy, US coal consumption increased by 10% in 2025, compared to a 0.7% rise globally. "

    vs 9 years of decrease is still an overall decrease.

    …so that point is irrelevant to the current discussion.

    Also there’s a difference between China choosing to do something with their planned economy, vs. random wacky shit happening here in Freemarketstan

    In this context, no there isn’t a difference. A net increase in coal usage is the only measure. Under that measure both the USA and China have increased domestic coal consumption for energy production.

    Even if you want to try to play the “planned economy” card, I doubt in the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030), which was formally approved at the National People’s Congress in March 2026, did the concept of $100+Brent crude prices exist as a recorded target. China has been buying up cheap Urals oil from Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet of tankers for a couple years now increasing their strategic reserves (far higher than even the USA). Even those Urals shipments have largely curtained as its now open season for Ukrainian drones knocking out shadow fleet tankers by literally the dozen.

    China is not sinning by increasing coal use any greater than the USA by just reacting to geopolitical market conditions and the need to continue to power its nation.