A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers — and they have less than a year to find a new power source.

In what developed country can a utility company just cancel a customer’s access to a critically important service?

They achieved surprisingly good capacity for an entirely new chemistry. I wish them luck in their research, since this could bring luck to everyone. :)

That’s pretty nice detective work.

Now the lawyers can begin. If Google downloads a ton of stuff for users, some of them with limited disk space, some with metered data connectivity, Google is making their lives worse. If they automatically make the life of (for example) 100 million people worse, they should be fined for such behaviour. If this behaviour is occurring in Europe, then I predict that under the EU Digital Services Act, they will be fined eventually.

1 degree more heat == 7% more water vapour in air

Not well, but it drives.

Battery capacity is small. It’s a city car all the way.

Heating is abysmal. I don’t touch it, it drains the battery. I only heat the seats (from the car 12 V system) and windscreen (with a large drone battery and two Chinese 400 W heat blowers).

Different sizes of tyres of front and back wheels are impractical. Changing headlight bulbs is a nightmare (manual says to take off the front bumper, but I deviate from the procedure and leave some screws missing, so I can take out the headlights).

The gear shifter has 2 needless pull cables (not electrical cables) which freeze in winter and cannot be bypassed easily. The motor controller borked itself (high voltage comparator error) and I had to take it apart to fix (fortunately a fix was documented).

One of the steel brake pipes rusted and leaked, and the repair shop refused to lower the battery (I have done it myself) because they didn’t feel comfortable. I had to bypass the steel pipe with a copper pipe, fortunately technical inspection did not notice.

Rear ABS sensors go faulty and start lying, producing error messages. An “original” spare part costs 200 euros, fortunately there’s a trick (installing another car’s sensor in reverse) and it costs 17 euros.

But what I can I ask, it’s a 15 year old car.

I’m in Europe, so we have 230 volts here (two times less amps needed for identical power), but… I charge my i-MIEV with 5.5 amps at night (the whole night) and it’s charged by the morning. Knowing that, I optimized my grid connection down to 3 x 6 amps (three phases, each up to 6 amps).

Of course, if I charge during daytime, I can draw power from the house inverter, so then I charge at 10…13 amps.