Also they have the added benefit of being an excellent augmentation to 3D printing! My wife got the $400 Excalibur food dryer, used it once, and now I use it to dry out my FDM printer filament before starting up a print job. Dual hobby purpose!
That's because it is. The complex carbohydrates in whole fruit (as opposed to juice or candy) slows down your digestion and you don't get a blood sugar spike.
One imagines GP is more referring to oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, in addition to dietary fiber. Not all fruits contain excess fructose, and many contain basically trace amounts in reasonable servings.
maybe not your pancreas but not all sugars are equal, and the most common "added" sugar in the us is HFCS which is processed by the body differently then natural glucose common to fruit
EU has about 200 billions EUR in frozen assets of Russian oligarchs. Those money are ripe for taking, but EU needs justification. Taxing it over several years seems like a good strategy. It is not like they can move it to Dubai...
I am middle class, and I already do those tricks. In reality it means I follow the sun, and change location every two months. I pay about 10% in taxes and socials. All strictly legal!
Who really gets screwed by this, are middle class people with children!
And replacing battery after seven or three years is not much difference. Rugged truck like that, should last 30 years with basic maintenance! This car is not even serviceable!!!
Why do Rivian batteries degrade so much more quickly than other manufacturers'? 1500 cycles is fine with a Tesla, IIRC something like 10% degradation on average (and for most people 1500 cycles takes way more than 3 years! You'd have to drive >100k miles per year to hit that! I imagine most Rivians are driving 10x less than that)
Rivian battery warranty. If you actually use this as a truck, as an off road SUV, or as a farm tractor, haul heavy stuff, pull out tree stumps... It will complete a few full charging cycles every day. Battery will degrade fast. It does so on mobile phones, cars are no different! It is a good idea to have it replaced before warranty runs out.
> 8-year or 150,000-mile
> The high-voltage battery pack capacity naturally decreases over time with use. This expected gradual capacity
loss over time is not covered under the Battery Pack Limited Warranty. However, greater than expected
degradation is covered under the Battery Pack Limited Warranty. The warranty will cover a battery pack that
loses 30% or more of its normal minimum usable rated capacity within the warranty period.
Do you really replace your car engine and transmission before the warranty runs out? You're constructing arguments that literally makes no sense. The battery in your phone isn't comparable to the one in an BEV. If that was true your phone would have a fully working battery ten years later, just with slightly lower capacity. Not one that dies because you open a webpage with a too many moving elements, so battery voltage drops and it turns off.
All that said - I don't think a truck like the Rivian R1T makes any sense. For the same reason that I don't think most trucks make any sense. They're just penis extensions that have little to no utility for a vast majority of people that buy them. But since we're OK with that for regular trucks, I think we should be OK with that for the battery electric version too. Lets at least be consistent.
> Do you really replace your car engine and transmission before the warranty runs out?
I try! A few months before warranty runs out, it gets full inspection, and I claim every part that acts funky! It is a free money!
> If that was true your phone would have a fully working battery ten years later,
What exactly is the difference? If anything phone batteries are way more expensive and sophisticated!
R1T can tow 100 miles on single charge. That is 1500 battery cycles within 150k miles warranty, or 3000 cycles if you do that daily for 8 years!
> just penxs extensions that have little to no utility for a vast majority of people that buy them
I actually want to use this as a truck. It should be soo much better, new revolutionary technology...
You claim that thing is useless "penxs extension", yet somehow manufacturer does not lie about its numbers!
> But since we're OK with that for regular trucks
OK, let's ban useless extensions. Why should people who actually need proper truck for work, pay fines and sponsor people, who buy useless EV penxs extensions?
> I try! A few months before warranty runs out, it gets full inspection, and I claim every part that acts funky! It is a free money!
That's not what you claimed. This is clearly something that everyone that own a vehicle should do, and probably do. Obviously it makes a lot of more sense to do on a combustion engine that has literally thousands of moving parts that easily can ruin an engine. But any sensible person will service their car before warranty runs out.
> What exactly is the difference? If anything phone batteries are way more expensive and sophisticated!
I don't know where to even start. How does my example prove that they're more expensive and sophisticated? They fail to deliver enough power to the CPU so it crashes. So they have to clock the CPU down so the battery is able to deliver enough power.
> R1T can tow 100 miles on single charge. That is 1500 battery cycles within 150k miles warranty, or 3000 cycles if you do that daily for 8 years!
This argument makes no sense. You're constructing a edge case that doens't fit with reality. Show me a truck with a combustion engine that hauls max load all day, every day, for 150k miles without significant service requirement, to the tune that cost vastly more than a simple battery replacement.
> I actually want to use this as a truck. It should be soo much better, new revolutionary technology...
Then buy a truck that fits your needs. It's that simple.
> You claim that thing is useless "penxs extension", yet somehow manufacturer does not lie about its numbers!
I don't understand what or who is lying. Even most truckers will admit that most people that own a truck don't really use it as it was intended. The vast majority of trucks on the road has never had anything in their truck bed that couldn't fit in a Fiat Punto. I'm not going to stop you from getting a truck. Be that electric or combustion. I just want you to be consistent.
> OK, let's ban useless extensions. Why should people who actually need proper truck for work, pay fines and sponsor people, who buy useless EV penxs extensions?
Huh? I never made any argument like that. And it's okey, you're allowed to say penis[0].
> It does so on mobile phones, cars are no different!
Cars are very different. They have much more aggressive battery management and use active temperature control. Phones are assumed to be obsolete in 3 years due to software anyway so they run the batteries much harder.
How do you deal with intentionally harmful actors trying to smear technological progress by repeating specifically dishonestly framed questions living rent free inside your clueless defenders' brains through lite propoganda viral marketing campaigns?
I guess by being honest that the problem can be tricky to solve but back up the dialog to state that every podunk online article you read is framing human inconvenience from backed up traffic as more important to immediately solve over saving more lives :)
- there is a big debate if doctors should serve 24 hours without break (non stop) in hospital.
- doctors may be forced to operate after 24 hours of non stop work. I know for fact anesthesiologist who did so. We have VERY strict regulations for truck drivers to only drive 8 hours per day...
- there are no basic medications in pharmacy, like penicillin or anti fever sirup for kids
- you pay 8% medical income tax (it is called insurance), but there is no chance to find dentist or GP. So you go private an pay it out of pocket
- no chance to sue doctor or hospital for mistreatment. I could tell stories about tampons and tools forgotten inside patient...
- we have highest numbers of doctors per capita in Europe, yet system is very inefficient
- doctors spend about 40% of their time with paperwork
- base salary for doctor (without overtimes) is very low, they would not even qualify for mortgage..
- once I waited 12 hours at emergency room in public hospital (with life threatening condition), at end I gave up, and went to private clinic. I took second job to pay it...
Why is there so much overtime and wait time with so many doctors per capita? In Poland wait times can be significant and overtime is rampant but sill lower than what you said but we have one of the lowest number of doctors and nurses per capita in EU.
This seems obvious, but choosing a poorer EU country when the commenter already left room for exceptions when the said “pretty much” to compare to the US is not an argument in good faith.
Well it's not exactly Massachusetts but it seems to be on par with Florida, Vermont, Michigan, Maine etc. if you look at GDP per capita (relatively). I don't think Czechia is somehow exceptionally poor (of course on the whole the EU is much poorer on average).
> there with a straight face that Czechia is basically like Florida or Michigan
Compared to the median EU country Czechia is basically like Florida or Michigan (e.g. it's GDP per capita is closer to that of the Netherlands the Michigan's is to Massachusetts etc.).
> Go tell someone who’s been there with a straight face that Czechia
The problem is that the EU is significantly poorer on the whole.
> It seems to squarely fall within the provided exception.
I don't agree.
> This is pointless.
I'm really not quite sure what are you trying to say. Economically only Switzerland, Norway and Ireland(*) really have a higher GDP per capita than the US only one of them is even in the EU. Denmark, Netherlands and Sweden (only 39 mil people in total) are not that far off, so are we supposed to ignore all the other countries in the EU because of that?
This GDP argument is useless. Before war Russia had GDP comparable to Italy, it should collapse in a few days after sanctions, and we all know how it went!
You can look at median disposable household income, rent/real estate to income ratio and many other indicator which tell a similar story. GDP per capita is just a proxy.
> Before war Russia had GDP
Well.. Russia had 2.3 times higher population than Italy so it's not particularly surprising. Also it wasn't really that poor compared to most other EE countries (about on par with the Baltic states prior to 2014).
