Helped by the ACC Scheme [1], whereby you can throw someone off a bridge with an elastic band attached and the NZ government will pay to scrape them off the pavement.
Being that the concept of ACC is unusual, and it is run by the NZ Gov, means that ACC ads are some quite bizarre PSAs in a similar vein to NZ’s and Australia’s notorious road safety PSAs.
The older I get, the more I find myself gravitating toward building with Express.js, using front-end HTML with a touch of Alpine.js—and that covers 99% of my use cases. React is mostly an overkill.
Nothing fancy, just an express.js app with some sprinkle of alpine.js built on top of perplexity. Just something I have been tinkering with on the weekends, not meant to conquer the world :)
I’ve made the repo open source, feel free to look around,
Not to mention that it doesn’t have the battery degradation that my leaf suffered from. Nissan engineers messed up big time by leaving proper battery thermal management, giving edge to newcomers like BYD.
Price to build quality/package ratio. For AUD 36ks you can get a BYD Dolphin Premium with blade LFP battery, which will give you around 450 to 500ks of range.Why would you buy a Tesla?
> Tesla's charging infrastrucute is a competitive advantage.
Tesla's charging network being closed is detrimental to EVs.
Closed, incompatible infrastructure is dumb infrastructure. Closed, incompatible infrastructure is backward and primitive.
As a self respecting car buyer you should actively select against brands that try to lock you in and brands that try to shut you out.
What you want is smart infrastructure. You want to demand that all brands of EV can charge on all brands of charger with no dumb charging accounts.
The good news is Tesla chargers work with non-Tesla EVs. They've been open to all EVs in Europe for years. They're open to all EVs in Australia. Tesla has even started to open them to all EVs in North America.
It works because Tesla has adopted the CCS charging standard in North America (just like Tesla was already using in Europe and Australia). NACS is CCS charging with the J3400 plug. J3400 is the third plug type CCS supports.
Here's a Kia charging on a Tesla charger in England. No dumb Tesla account, no idiot Tesla app. Contactless payment just as Nature intended: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yflZN0dLT8s
BYD is not behind Tesla in safety with full score in ANCAP and software refinements dropping every now and then OTA. The UX of the BYD is far better as well with no forced minimalism.
I created an AI that optimizes your holidays by suggesting the best days to take off work, maximizing your vacation time around national holidays.
The tool, named "Time Off AI", analyzes your available vacation days and the public holidays in your region to propose optimal time-off strategies. This way, you can enjoy longer breaks!!
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