Never have I felt as old online.

I flew on it . . twice. Round trip NYC - London and home a week later. BA obviously.

At altitude (60,000 feet) the sky was black, not blue. And for any flat-earth’ers out there . . sorry, but from 60,000 feet you could see the curvature of the earth.

The only interesting physical difference I remember was the difference in acceleration departing JFK vs. departing from Heathrow. Out of JFK you are instantly over the Atlantic, so it accelerated from 0 mph to Mach 2.0 in one continuous push. Whereas departing Heathrow, you are over land until the English channel. So it accelerated down the runway like any other plane, cruised until over water, then it felt like it was taking off a second time, with a much longer acceleration push.

Where is the Kickstarter for this? TAKE MY MONEY!!!

Myanmar, Syria, Venezuela, Libya and Pakistan are all under one or more forms of US sanctions - yet are on the tariff list. Sorry . . until proven otherwise, there is no other logical explanation for the “friends of Vlad” being excluded except . . . the orange one is also a friend of Vlad.

deleted by creator

I cannot disagree about being wary of Tesla . . I certainly am. Here’s an article about data from 6,300 EV’s from 12 manufactures. Also includes a cool graphing tool . . . https://electrek.co/2019/12/14/8-lessons-about-ev-battery-health-from-6300-electric-cars/ Graphing the data: https://storage.googleapis.com/geotab-sandbox/ev-battery-degradation/index.html

As for my own EV’s . . I was an early adopter with the 24kWh Nissan Leaf - only had about 65 miles of “real world” range. Didn’t keep that long and traded it for a VW eGolf . . . 125 “real world” miles. Had that for several years . . .but traded it early in 2023 for a VW ID4. With 300+ miles, I no longer think about range. None of them had/have more than 30,000 miles . . .and I never noticed any degradation at all. The impact of cold weather is a MUCH more more noticeable issue!!

I’m on my 3rd EV . . and none of them have been a Tesla. I am FAR from a Tesla/Musk fanboy . . .but they do release the exact data you are asking about. Here you go . . 12% degradation after 200,000 miles.

https://electrek.co/2023/04/25/tesla-update-battery-degradation/

Roughly speaking, EV’s lose range at a similar rate that ICE engines lose horsepower.

https://carbuzz.com/news/10-reasons-why-engines-lose-horsepower-over-time

But a 10 year old Tesla is worth much more than a 10 year old BMW . . .

https://ark-invest.com/articles/analyst-research/ev-batteries-value/

Here is a Nissan Leaf used as a taxi . . .100,000 miles with no noticeable battery degradation . . .

https://www.speakev.com/threads/c-c-taxis-100-000-mile-nissan-leaf-full-battery-included.8804/

You replace the battery of an EV just about as often as you replace the engine block in an ICE car. Both do happen . . . but very, very infrequently.

That really should be cries in Englandland . . . I moved from Hertfordshire to Scotland 2 years ago (driving an EV all the way up the A1(M) . . . Chargeplace Scotland really works VERY well . . .

Non paywall version here: https://archive.li/73Df4