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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is passionate about having toilets in his $2 billion arena in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Jode@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's neat, now do something about a beer and a hot dog's 28 dollar price.

Elon Musk warns Tesla workers they'll be sleeping on the production line to build its new mass-market EV in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Jode@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Illegally remodeling

Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Jode@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

Shit, does anyone remember battery power tools from 20 years ago? 5 screws in and they start to die. Now Milwaukee tool itself is essentially an industrial battery pack manufacturer.

Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Jode@midwest.social -1 points 11 months ago

I have had a handful of that generation golf over the years that I have modified. It would be absurdly simple to drop an electric motor into that thing if the right kit existed.

Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Jode@midwest.social -1 points 11 months ago

Yes but that's 10s of thousand volts AC power at a reasonable current. We're talking DC at a couple hundred volts and an extremely high current.

Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Jode@midwest.social -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for this but I remember reading a comment on here a while back saying that to get that kind of energy jammed into a battery that quickly you'd need a cable as thick as a telephone pole to keep it from glowing like a toaster coil.

Meta explores options to charge EU users for ad-free subscriptions in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Jode@midwest.social -1 points 1 year ago

That's great, but a hundred bucks says they'll be ad free for those subscribers for 5 years or so and then they will creep back in, then you'll need a Facebookplus+ subscription to get rid of the ads.