Saint Kitts and Nevis. Economy sucks, internet too, but you can’t beat the view.

We could go door to door spreading our disbelief. But we generally hate proselytizers.

Gooble gobble

Fried finger food.

1,5,7,8,3,4,2,6

I read that title to the rhythm of Radar Love.

Black snake moan, of course

I’m more of a “Christ on a cracker” man in polite company, or “fuck me sideways” otherwise.

Pretty sure it’s got no thoughts going through its brain.

Thank you.

I wrote near 1000 km.

My bad, misread that as miles.

Still, I think is safe to assume those batteries are on the higher end of energy density, so the Huawei battery would be something like twice the density (which, again, amazing). So those would be upgraded to 2000 km with the new tech.

I see. As I understand it, automakers successfully lobbied for the credits to be used at the sale, so I wonder if that solved that issue. Moot point in two months, anyway.

A lot of local businesses could benefit from a truck like that. I don’t listen to music driving, I know I’m on the minority, but we exist. I’m more interested in if the interior is weather rated like a Wrangler. If so, this is a game changer for a weekend car. Get that open top add-on and go have fun.

The other big plus is that you don’t need to buy any extra up front. It’s all installable at home.

Yes. Like the plastic bumpers on Subaru cars.

How so? I thought it was a blanket credit: battery made in US, half credit, car assembled in US, the other half.

I assure you I am not being pedantic. This isn’t a PR. It’s supposed to be a critical article about a PR. And it does a terrible job at it. And that’s what I’m complaining about.

Are you talking about the Lucid Air? Stated EPA range is 512.

The only Mercedes I found with a 1000 figure was 1000 km or 626 miles for the Mercedes Vision EQXX concept.

But my search prowess isn’t what it used to be. I’d love if you could provide the models.

Change to range. Still no reason to blatantly lie.

“This battery can go 3x as far as current ones” is perfectly understood by anyone.

solid-state battery architecture with energy densities between 400 and 500 Wh/kg, which is two or three times that of the current EV battery landscape.

So 3x is the upper limit, comparing probably to the worst of current cells, which I think is LFP. So let’s be generous and use the 3x figure, and not the lower end of the spectrum.

1864 miles / 3 = 621.3 miles, which comes close to the recent figure of 607 achieved in a test for the Escalade IQ. Important to note that GM only claims 465 miles of range that, and that test only achieved that by limiting speed to 60 mph.

So, the highest range “common” car, which definitely does not use the least dense battery, can achieve reliably only 465 miles. So if that switched to this new tech, it would get some 1000 miles at best (which is great, but close to half what’s promised). Which begs the question: what currently in production car were they thinking of when touting a 3000 km range?

And now comes my assertion: that car doesn’t exist. They’re full of it and they know, they just wanted something for headlines. And the specialized media was supposed to catch that but didn’t, because journalism has been reduced to parroting press releases, devoid of any critical thinking.

Note that headline says “we have questions”, but didn’t ask any of that, which would be the first thing to ask: is this true? If it wasn’t for the very sane point at the end that nobody wants a 1800 mile range vehicle, the whole article would be little more than a puff piece for Huawei. Bottom tier journalism.

A PR number would be “300% the capacity of current batteries with the same weight”. A mile range is just bullshit, and the “journalist” just parroted it out without second thought.

What I mean is that a battery doesn’t have wheels. It can’t go anywhere, so you can’t give it a range rating unless you put it in a vehicle. Any battery range rating is bullshit.

If you take an ebike with a range of 200 km and take it’s battery out and put it on a Nissan Leaf, it won’t go 20 km. If you take a Cadillac Escalade battery and put in a Leaf somehow, it will definitely achieve a lot more than the 600 miles it did on the SUV.