Will Lorac

The battery revolution is amazing. Batteries have almost completely displaced gas in Queensland and all it took was two short years!

@Gvozdenac71 If everything is expensive/unaffordable, why are businesses like Annaconda, BCF, Starbucks, Zarraffas, etc, making big money? None of these type of businesses are necessary. I agree everything is more expensive, but people are still buying.

Falcon Heavy's two side boosters returned to Earth and landed at Landing Zones 2 and 40

Bugatti just lost its all-time speed record. To the Chinese EV in this video. 308 mph at Papenburg, on a battery. The Chiron Super Sport had held the record for six years. 1,600 hp, 8.0L W16, four turbochargers. Bugatti needed every horse of that to hit 304 mph. BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme did 308 with four electric motors and a battery pack. Marc Basseng, the driver, won the Nürburgring 24 Hours. He said the run was "technically not possible with a combustion engine." He's right. A combustion engine produces a power curve that peaks at a specific RPM and falls off either side. Past 9,000 RPM the valves float, the connecting rods stretch, the pistons can't reverse direction fast enough. The W16 is the absolute thermodynamic ceiling of 100 years of internal combustion. Every mph past 290 cost exponentially more engineering for diminishing returns. The U9 Xtreme uses four electric motors. Each produces 744 hp. Each spins to 30,000 RPM. No valves. No pistons. No connecting rods. Total system output is 2,978 hp, almost double Bugatti's W16. Power-to-weight is 1,217 hp per tonne. The motors were never the hard part. Mate Rimac said this years ago. The constraint was always the battery, because to deliver 2,978 hp into four wheels you have to discharge faster than any production EV ever has. BYD built the world's first 1,200-volt production car. Everyone else uses 800V. The Blade Battery runs lithium iron phosphate cells with a 30C discharge rate, ten times what a conventional EV battery handles. Heat generation falls 67% versus 800V at matching output. That last number is the whole game. Heat is what kills high-power EV runs. Other automakers derate within seconds at full power because the battery cooks itself. BYD's architecture lets the Xtreme hold maximum discharge long enough to actually approach the aerodynamic limit of the chassis. Bugatti spent 20 years engineering the W16 to its physical ceiling. BYD spent 18 months building the architecture that cleared it. They're making 30 of them. The crown for fastest production car on Earth has belonged to Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Hennessey, SSC. All combustion, all European or American. The crown is Chinese now, and it runs on a battery.

🚨 ¡EL COCHE MÁS RÁPIDO DEL MUNDO ES CHINO! 🇨🇳NUEVO RÉCORD El BYD Yangwang U9 Xtreme acaba de pulverizar el récord: 496,22 km/h en pista certificada (Alemania). Y Es 100% eléctrico ! Superó al Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ y se corona como el hypercar de producción más rápido del planeta. Casi 3000 HP eléctricos, 0 emisiones y tecnología que deja atrás a Europa. ¿El futuro? Ya llegó de China. ¿Quién necesita gasolina cuando tienes esto? 😎

I am 62 and I have owned the following vehicles in my life: 1963 Volvo 122S 1962 karma ghia by Volkswagen 1975 toyota corolla 1963 Chevy station wagon 1986 Honda accord LXi 1992 Honda Accord LXi 1995 Eddie Bauer Ford Explorer 2000 Eddie Bauer Ford explorer 1999 econoline Ford V8 stretch van 2008 Chevy suburban 2008 Audi A6 station wagon 2011 convertible mini cooper 2016 Ford f150 2018 240i convertible m series bmw 2006 Honda Accord 2008 Ford F350 Latiet diesel 2023 Tesla model 3 performance 2024 Tesla cyber truck foundation series 2026 Tesla Rwd model Y Ask me anything. I am an entrepreneurial female who has owned many businesses and have raised three lovely young men. I have owned, as you can see, my share of cars throughout the years. I am dumbfounded how anyone can buy anything but a Tesla after all I have lived and what I know. Feelings about Elon aside, which I do not fathom either, Teslas by 100x are the most amazing vehicles especially for the price of anything I have ever owned. Everytime I get in the cybertruck, I re live my awe all over again, from the tight turns it takes, how low I can lower it while loading, how it powers my cabin when power goes out, I could go on and on and on - about all the features I love about it besides the basic Tesla features. It is the most amazing vehicle ever produced. I am shocked that anyone can ever buy an ice vehicle if they really researched and knew what they were choosing. Safety, lack of driving fatigue you don’t even realize you have until you don’t have it anymore, quiet, peaceful ride experience, charging clean in my garage for $1 a night, lack of maintenance concern ever, service (I have found to be so pleasant), buying experience (literally takes 5 mins), ease of having others drive with key share, there are just so many things…… it’s remarkable to me when my Tesla is driving down the road by itself, and I look around at that 99.9% of those around me all driving themselves-how dangerous they are compared to me. No shade on them but the fact is, they are a huge liability on the road and I am not. Every accident I have seen in the past three years is an accident that would not have happened in a Tesla world. And I have seen a lot - even fatal ones. It’s so sad to me how the entire global public is being gaslit about teslas - it’s clearly a designed slowdown of adoption - because adoption that would happen if the truth was revealed, would be catastrophic to the old paradigm, the old supply chain, the unions, the car dealerships, the gas stations as they sit a top tanks they would have to be pulled out of the ground (expensive), the insurance and medical industry that makes so much money off the accidents. The list goes on and on about the disruption it would cause if the truth really got out. So the powers that be, lie, to slow down the adoption they know is inevitable, to give themselves time to pivot out of the already obsolete. I am a 62 year old female who has seen and lived a lot in my life - this current state of affairs regarding the wool being pulled over the eyes of the masses, regarding the utter superiority of Tesla- is the most profound phenomenon I have ever lived. It’s truly uncanny.

Starlink has done more than any NGO to lift people out of poverty by connecting them with a means of education and a market for their good & services via the Internet

"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost. The biggest mistake people make, intellectuals in particular, they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk somehow stole the money from the people. They don't understand that it's this prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. They're creating value for their customers, they're creating value for their employees. Their suppliers are flourishing, their investors are seeing their capital go up. It can be reinvested and compound. All philanthropy ultimately comes from business. That's where the profits are. Where does all the taxes come from? It ultimately comes from business as well. This is the engine that's lifting humanity out. The entrepreneurs are the drivers of that engine. Somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world." — @iamjohnmackey

Wo kommt eigentlich der Strom her, wenn wir alle elektrisch fahren? Klingt nach einer guten Frage. Aber guckt man genauer hin, stellt man sich die gegenteilige Frage: Wo kommt eigentlich der ganze Strom her für all die Verbrenner? In der Theorie klingt es einfach. Verbrenner fahren mit Benzin und Diesel, das kommt aus dem Bohrloch und kann da abgepumpt werden. Wiederum: Strom muss man erstmal "erzeugen", der sprudelt nicht einfach aus dem Boden. Aber was kommt da eigentlich genau aus dem Boden? Denn Benzin und Diesel sind es nicht. Tatsächlich kommt da klassisches Rohöl raus, das ist nicht mal übermäßig flüssig. Und noch weniger kann man damit einfach ein Auto betreiben. Auch kommt es nicht von selbst da raus. Benzin und Diesel haben eine bemerkenswert hohe Energiedichte, da kommt auch die Reichweite dieser Autos her. Aber es ist ein weiter Weg bis dahin. Buchstäblich. Rohöl muss raffiniert werden, also in einem hochkomplexen Prozess aufgeheizt, gefiltert und bearbeitet werden. Das braucht verhältnismäßig viel Energie. Pro Liter Benzin sind es je nach Quelle um die 1,5 kWh, für 7 Liter Benzin also beispielsweise 10,5 kWh, damit fährt ein Elektroauto bereits pessimistisch 50 km, die meisten sogar eher mehr. Und das ist noch ohne auf AdBlue oder etwaige weitere Zusatzstoffe einzugehen. Ebenso wenig auf die verschiedenen Schmieröle, ohne die ein Verbrenner auch nicht auskommt. All das braucht weiteren Strom, um so aufbereitet zu sein, dass es für das Auto von Nutzen ist. Zum Schluss fehlt bei weitem nicht so viel Strom, wie man erst meint. Die Frage ist eher, warum wir mit dem Strom noch Kraftstoffe aufbereiten, welche wir aus aller Welt einkaufen müssen. Die aktuellen Preise zeigen erneut, dass man mit dem Strom sinnvolleres machen kann, als ihn für Diesel und Benzin zu verheizen. Man könnte damit auch einfach nur fahren. All meine langen Threads findet ihr übrigens auch auf meiner Webseite unter "Kommentar" @smartEMOTION: smart-emotion.de/category-artic…

Have you seen this Iran theory? What's your thought on it?

Je crois qu'on ne mesure pas ce qu'Elon Musk est en train de construire avec X. Tous les médias de l'histoire ont été couplés à une culture, une langue, une bulle géographique. Le Monde parle aux Français. Le NYT parle aux Américains. NHK parle aux Japonais. Chaque média filtre le réel à travers le prisme de sa culture locale. X est en train de devenir le premier média de l'humanité. Pas d'un pays. De l'espèce. Je le vis en temps réel. Mes posts en français se font RT par des Japonais, répondre par des Brésiliens, citer par des Américains. Des conversations qui n'auraient jamais existé il y a 5 ans. Un libertarien français qui débat avec un ingénieur de Tokyo et un entrepreneur de Sao Paulo sous le même tweet. Pas traduit par un éditeur. Traduit instantanément par l'IA, en un clic. Les bulles de filtre culturelles sont en train d'exploser. Et je pense qu'on sous-estime massivement les effets composés de ça. Quand une idée peut traverser un océan en 3 secondes, quand un argument sourcé posté à Paris peut être vérifié par un économiste à Singapour et amplifié par un développeur à Austin dans la même heure, le coût de propagation d'une bonne idée tend vers zéro. Et c'est catastrophique pour un type d'acteur très précis : les médias qui ont construit leur business model sur le monopole de l'information locale. Ceux qui pouvaient raconter n'importe quoi sur "ce qui se passe ailleurs" parce que personne ne pouvait vérifier. Quand un journaliste français écrit que "le modèle américain ne marche pas", maintenant il y a 50 Américains dans les réponses avec des sources. Quand un éditorialiste dit que "le Danemark prouve que le socialisme fonctionne", il y a un Danois qui explique que le Danemark est 10e en liberté économique mondiale. Le fact-checking n'est plus un département. C'est un effet réseau. Les médias honnêtes n'ont rien à craindre de ça. Les médias qui vendaient une narration protégée par l'ignorance géographique de leur audience vont avoir un problème existentiel. Parce qu'on ne peut plus mentir à l'échelle locale quand le monde entier regarde.