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To be fair, it could have fully driven itself into the train: “fully self driving” <> “fully safe driving” /s
To be fair, it could have fully driven itself into the train: “fully self driving” <> “fully safe driving” /s
Umm that’s donuts if they’re from Dunkin’ 😜
Yeah, you don’t want toddlers learning gun safety the hard way
I’m not sure where that number came from but according to Wikipedia the conversion from momentum to electricity loses 10-20% and the conversion from electricity to battery storage is another 10-20% leaving a theoretical recovery at 60-70%. In real world tests, Teslas recovered 20-32% range with regenerative braking, a far cry from 2-5% you cite. https://electrek.co/2018/04/24/regenerative-braking-how-it-works/
Idle losses are real but not very substantial in a modern engine compared to the bigger factor you’re missing which is that in city driving tests there is a lot of speeding up and slowing down, ICE vehicles throw away all the energy used to slow down as heat in the brakes which makes city cycles particularly inefficient while an EV captures that energy through regenerative braking, dramatically reducing the net cost of those momentum changes.
It’s the New York Post, temperature would be a chilly 45F for their American audience
socratic method: a method of teaching by question and answer; used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method