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By the way, I think that he drove around on that parking lot not to try to stall the car - he needed lower state of charge while staying in agreement with the time table. So instead of spending that time charging, he was actively discharging the car. This thing looks more and more like a fraud...

I think this article is very relevant to this thread: Traffic pollution kills 5,000 a year in UK, says study

Actually they do use Panasonic cells exclusively (in manufacturing of their batteries). They do test all kinds of cells from all kinds of manufacturers but that's not the same thing.

I think there is a ring of truth in mgemmell's comment. One important thing Tesla should do is to increase number of suppliers of battery cells. Not do it in "winner gets all" manner. Do it like Apple sources displays for iPad. Like use Panasonic for 80% of cells, the rest from Sony or...

OK, I went through this slightly contentious thread again and realized, that we shifted a little bit from my original point. My point was that we cannot estimate risks associated with nuclear power given the presence of corruption (check), incompetence (check) and sabotage (no check... yet...

Nukes. My opinionated opinion is: If you weight only well being of people living within like 25 mile radius of all the stations vs all the economic good power plants produce, then probably coal will win. BUT. If you add global climate change to the equation, then my gut filling is on the side...

The answer is in your own post: "be far beyond seismologists’ imagination as the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake" Seismologists do not do risk assesment for power plants. Their opinion is considered and checked against their track record. After 2004 their (NRC's counterpart in Japan) risk models...

Actually there were no hand waving on my part. And I find your passive aggressive "friendly warning" after your own "nonsense" post (and by your own standards very-very trollish one) is highly inappropriate. I'm still waiting for your apology by the way. What I'm doing here is I'm trying to...

You know, exposing one's ignorance is very damaging to one's reputation. :wink: There is a certain thing called "Systems theory". And there is that "nonsense" thing called "complex system" (Complex system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Try not to underestimate people (especially...

I believe there was BBC coverage of corruption angle in regard to Tepco's dealings. Like this for example: BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan's shaky nuclear record

I disagree on this point. Risks where not underestimated because of lack of "human knowledge" (What? no one knew that tsunamis happen after earth quakes?!). Even for such rare events, when you calculate probabilities you get that risk is too high considering financial consequences (probability...

That's actually reasonable. For one - no one but government have sufficient funds to ensure them. Another reason: This works under "for the public good" doctrine. Hence intense government regulation in exchange for ass covering. Basically the good that it brings to have the station...

What you wrote is called "hand waving". No offense. :biggrin: That's called "financial catastrophe". And no, it should not have happened if proper protocols for risk assessment were properly followed. Even Three Mile Island wouldn't have happened (most probably) if Wash-1400 was put into...

I'm currently finishing plowing through UC Berkeley's risk management for nuclear engineers course (the one they pulled for some lame reason (UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: Search Courses and Events), but I managed to download all the videos beforehand). Here what I can say (as a...

Well, you're not a real EV until you run out of charge at Top Gear! :) Nissan calls out 'Top Gear' over Leaf review | The Car Tech blog - CNET Reviews

Not to troll, but guys, BMW has a really spotty reputation when it comes to anything electric. Even aside electric mini, their regular cars are prone to numerous electrical problems. My experience (anecdotal, I know): problems with sunroof not closing, door locks not working, alarm going off for...

That's probably because they had to deal with wind noise.

I assumed that mentioning "week in batteries" was a good enough link. ;) here it is: This week in batteries (TWiB): If your cat has nine lives, shouldn't your battery have at least two?

I don't know what to make out of that "second-life" talk from Nissan and others. Are they serious or just trying to alleviate fears of hugely expensive battery replacement down the road? My confusion comes from the fact pointed by that "week in batteries" guy: basically that 80% capacity...

"creep" is important safety thing. Think about it: in regular (ICE) cars with automatic transmissions you will not forget to kill the engine or put into "park" because of this. In cars with manual - unintentionally bumping the gas pedal will not do much because you either in neutral, or the...

Darryl, Another, more investigative idea: relationship between LI battery production capacity, rate of innovation, government involvement, major companies in play, etc. For example: when couple of years back LI battery production was running at 100% capacity there were practically no...

The thing is - they (pundits) don't like being wrong. And the simple truth is - the overwhelming majority of such ambitious startups go bust. So, by doing nothing but predicting failure they already covering 99% of cases. Frankly, they are simply lazy and useless talking heads (well, they don't...

You probably want to add podcast where Marting goes through the slides: Lessons from the Electric Roadster (Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner)