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Everyone: perfect beer pic doesn’t exist… Me: Jenny Lake lager at Jenny Lake @GrandTetonNPS @snakeriverbrew @untappd

@flightradar24 It’s obvious this is the 1901 map… such a reputable site, making such a glaring error…

Map showing air traffic in 1899.

@brandenflasch Here in Europe, I do look for cheaper DC charging when traveling (for a longer trip that’s usually 3 countries), usually aiming for Ionity (Ionna is your equivalent 😁). Taking their monthly subscription and paying 0.34-0.41c …totally avoiding ever paying more than 50c

Is per-kWh price a factor when you choose which DCFC to stop at on a road trip? We’re finally at the point where major routes have major options (I remember when that wasn’t the case!), and those options come with a real range of amenities, power levels, and pricing. Personally, I’ll go out of my way to avoid just about any DCFC priced above $0.50/kWh - I typically pay under $0.40/kWh, assuming ~200kW+ / 500A+ to pull full power on my F-150 Lightning. That usually puts me on IONNA, Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging, and Tesla Superchargers with membership ($12.99/month is paid for in the savings of a single charge on my Lightning, though it's very annoying I can't use PnC and get the discounted rate). For AC / Level 2, I won’t bother plugging in unless it’s below $0.20/kWh (and only if I actually need it, like at a hotel) or free - opportunity charging or better parking. Public charging is still priced too high across the board, and hotel AC charging is the worst offender. Hotels need to view EV charging as an amenity - more like the pool or gym - rather than a profit center like the overpriced minibar snacks. Having charging attracts guests that would otherwise pick a different hotel that has (reasonably priced) charging. What are your thresholds?

This is very cool! ...nice that I can still be positively surprised by a US government agency. Kudos to the professional staff @NASAKennedy

@marcje74 300 km real range? Maybe by never exceeding 100 km/h

Deze Leapmotor is dus een auto waar je prima mee op vakantie kunt. 300 km reeël rijbereik. Vol met tech. En weinig knopjes want we leven in 2026. De Duitsers kunnen dit gewoon niet.

@RoamingNorway And the license plate only 6 numbers apart? ...maybe someone works in a Renault dealership ;)

What the heck - same place

@electricfelix What is that app?

Germany improving every day⚡️⚡️⚡️ #adhocapp 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 #alwaysbecharging

Your iPhone has a USB-C port because Europe passed a law. Europe is only 7% of Apple's sales. That 7% rewrote every iPhone on the planet, including the one in your pocket. In October 2022, the European Parliament passed a law requiring every new phone sold in Europe to use the same plug, USB-C, by the end of 2024. Apple had fought this idea for years, arguing that forcing one standard would slow innovation. Three weeks after the vote, Apple's marketing chief Greg Joswiak sat on a panel at the Wall Street Journal's tech conference and gave up the fight: "We'll have to comply." Eleven months later, Apple launched the iPhone 15. It had a USB-C port. The model sold in Berlin, Chicago, Mumbai, and Shanghai was the same phone. Apple could have built a USB-C iPhone for Europe and kept the old Lightning plug (in iPhones since 2012) for every other country. That would have kept Lightning alive, and Lightning was a real business. Apple ran something called the "Made for iPhone" program. If you wanted to make a Lightning cable, a dock, a car charger, or a speaker that actually worked with an iPhone, you paid Apple $99 a year to join, plus roughly $4 on every connector you sold. Thousands of companies paid in. But making two different iPhones is expensive. Apple sold about 247 million of them in 2025. Two designs means two factories, two parts orders, two boxes, two spare cables in the box, two warranty pipelines. Cheaper to copy Europe's rule and ship one phone to the whole planet. A law professor named Anu Bradford wrote about this pattern in a 2012 paper and a 2020 book. She called it the Brussels Effect. Europe has about 450 million people who buy things. Big enough that companies set the rules for everyone, everywhere, to match whatever Europe says. Your cookie pop-ups come from Europe, a law called GDPR. Safer chemicals in your shampoo and sofa come from Europe, a law called REACH. The new App Store rule that lets you install apps from outside Apple's store comes from Europe, the Digital Markets Act. The USB-C plug on your phone is the same story. The ripple is already spreading. India said every phone sold there needs USB-C by March 2025. California is working on the same law. Apple kept selling one last Lightning iPhone, the iPhone 14, outside Europe until September 2025, then quietly dropped it when the iPhone 17 came out. Lightning is gone from every store in every country. 7% of Apple's money rewrote 100% of Apple's phones.

@Mattlinn01 Growth in numbers by 2030 that Tesla was projecting would have been more feasible. And he would have invested more in its core product -> *cars*

With the Tim Cook news today, it made me think… What if Tim took the reins at Tesla? I know this will never happen but it would be interesting to hear people’s thoughts. Chime in!

@Jeff21461 @NedSnow2019 What would be the range with the M107, probably 24 km? Because the position looks fairly unprepared…

@NedSnow2019 Interesting that they censored all of the markings on that M107 shell.

Already known for quite some time, but I had not yet seen it, Bohdana 5.0 of the 144th Special Operations Center (December 2025) What is that thing on the top left of the back of the cabin? Smoke launcher?

@alexwickham “could use the ceasefire to prepare” …of course it is doing just that every minute, the leadership and the military know that eventually the strikes will resume

Exclusive: Iran Has Limited the Impact of US Strikes, Intelligence Says Pre-war planning meant Iran’s military was able to mitigate the impact of US-Israeli strikes on its weapons arsenal and leadership, according to Western military intelligence assessments — which also say it retains the ability to respond if the ceasefire fails. Tehran has sustained massive damage to its infrastructure and its most senior leaders have been killed. But operational planning undertaken in anticipation of the conflict was effective in preventing the destruction of its missile and drone capabilities as well as maximising the impact of its military response, people familiar with the assessments said. Plans put in place by Iran to replace senior military leaders in the event they were killed meant the country was able to minimize disruption to its command and control structures when they were targeted in the first days of the war, the people said. It also appears that Iran retains solid reserves of long-range missiles, according to assessments provided by European and Gulf officials. It still has thousands of drones in its armoury, the people added. These provide a much more nuanced picture of the outcomes of the US-Israeli operation than that portrayed by Trump and US administration officials. The effectiveness of Iran’s earlier military planning also raises the prospect that it could use the current ceasefire to make preparations for any resumption of hostilities. Story with @EllenAMilligan @AlbertoNardelli >>> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@electric_nick_ Volume knob exists and it's to right of the driver, OS mapping with a scroll wheel has really been dropped by everyone (even BMW who started it). The two stalks are great, physical manipulation of the wipers is useful (sometimes one wants just the rear) as is the gear selector.

I think I would use the wheel for volume quite often. If the OS allows mapping different functions depending on the situation, that would be even better (e.g. wiper speed, following distance, AC temperature, etc.). I guess having the center button/wheel is fine for most people Definitely better than the current setup. The return to physical buttons on the steering wheel is great, but there are probably too many, as you mentioned. And don’t forget the two stalks behind the steering wheel, which add even more complexity.

I personally think the ID.3 Neo has too many buttons on the steering wheel. I count 11 on each side, for a total of 22 (and oddly, three aren’t even labeled). At the same time, it’s missing a proper scroll wheel. How did this decision make it through the development process? @StepanRehak

@Wassim_Rat @electricfelix @RoamingNorway @ChinaEV_Eng_Lif @itskyleconner @DriveGreen80167 While iX3 40 with a similar sized battery has a 635 km WLTP!

80 kWh battery for an EREV!!! Cheap electricity and now cheap batteries are making it hard for Chinese EV Automakers to focus on efficiency. @electricfelix @RoamingNorway @ChinaEV_Eng_Lif @itskyleconner @DriveGreen80167 @

@StunSeeed @Dominicdu06 @lucbronk @BMW @Fastned Exactly! Will likely be the best European car one could buy at that price range... My guess, Touring will start seeing registrations in about a year from now.

@ZKregar @Dominicdu06 @lucbronk @BMW @Fastned I can't wait for the touring, should be amazing..!!

Top speed of 408 kW! The new @BMW iX3 on the @Fastned 600 kW charger 🚀 ⚡️

@razorsbk @lucbronk @BMW @Fastned Even the MEB is much better than a Tesla ;) The combination of good efficiency, amazing charging and big battery is just an ICE killer and that's what we want...

@ZKregar @lucbronk @BMW @Fastned Thats insane, can't even dream about that in my Tesla.

@Dominicdu06 @lucbronk @BMW @Fastned Massive... It's going to be a great roadtripper (especially the i3, which I assume will have the same curve, but better efficiency).

@ZKregar @lucbronk @BMW @Fastned 274kW when plugged in from single digit % and over 300kW when plugged in at 30-ish %. Depends on preconditioning as well.

@mattyglesias I'm guessing immaculate conception...

@RoamingNorway The best 50-90% curve out there (incl the Chinese), my Tesla would literally die as it approached 80% …this one happily goes on.

Acceptable, not great but with good efficiency, the ID.7 Tourer is a good roadtripper!

@RoamingNorway That's a GTX? Btw I have a RWD version, with 210 kW and feels fully fine. Just used it over 5000 km in 3 weeks, a lot on the autobahn (often the important 130 -> 170 km/h acceleration)... I am coming from a Tesla model Y LR AWD, so it's not that I am not used to powerful BEVs.

It’s expensive, underpowered, the materials are behind the competition, software is lagging behind. But this is a car I absolutely love. The seating position, the way it handles, the huge amount of usable space. A true guilty pleasure.