It doesn’t seem likely that it will happen overnight, if at all, that’s why.

Why overnight? I would just switch to radio then. If average people switch to Spotify then there’s nothing I can do about that. But I don’t have to listen to it.

Does Spotify have video podcasts? I thought it was audio only

They would lose a lot of listeners doing that. I’ve stopped listening to plenty of podcasts that moved to Spotify – and I already subscribe to Spotify. Just out of principle. I will never listen to a podcast on Spotify.

I still disagree, and here’s why. I’ve ridden an electric bike share bike with no battery up a hill, with no extra load, and it was undoable. You couldn’t stay on the bike. It was more sensible to return the way I came than to keep going. Yes better gearing would have helped, but why was it necessary? Because the battery ran out. Why did it run out? Because capacity is limited by weight.

300 miles is way too much for most people to ever come close to in an ev unless they’re commuting 100 miles daily. Those people can get an extended range car or something. Whereas the battery capacity of ebikes and scooters is often met or exceeded especially with bike share. And then the bike is unrideable. Same with electric “push” scooters - they become unrideable when they run out.

People have range anxiety and I don’t fault people who want to be able to do long trips someday with their personal vehicle, but to me, it’s way more important to have better vehicles I’ll actually use daily.

If it was the difference between 150 miles and 200 that would be a different value judgement because then it does start to affect the car’s ability to function as a car in winter temperatures and normal distances.

I thought they were erasing the SMART data and selling the drives as new

Bad headline!

I would say I’m something of an expert about lifting bikes because I’ve lifted hundreds and hundreds into storage hooks on the ceiling at the shop I worked at, as well as at my own place. It absolutely is worse having to manhandle a heavier bike. If the average ebike is 50 lbs no way would it be workable for me on a daily basis, and no way would it be feasible to pedal home if the battery dies. A single hill and you’d be out of energy.

The distribution of weight matters a great deal. You can easily say that 5 lbs is the weight of groceries, but 2-3 lbs of heavier wheels would be much worse for getting up hills.

I don’t see why you think I want an incredibly light and fast ebike. I just think it’s more important to have a lighter bike, say 35 lbs vs 40 lbs, then it is too have 250 mi range than 300 in a car. I’m not going to get close to either number except on road trips, but I’ll deal with the extra weight of the bike daily. It’s ok if you don’t share this opinion, we can agree to disagree.

Your preference in cars seems fine too, I don’t see anything wrong with preferring one thing over another.

I’m talking about how a heavy bike is worse than a car with less than 300 mi range, relatively speaking.

The part where lifting a mass on a long lever is not easier than carrying it close to your body

Have you heard of torque by happenchance?

Proton said it was a mistake to get political in their “official statement” responding to their other “official statement”

No I mean for someone to read the source and explain what they found or didn’t find

I like the idea of copy but credit the artist

I love it. It was my grandpa’s favorite too

That’s cool, I hope someone writes an article about how it works

For what it’s worth after I gave them my email, either they didn’t send me anything, or they did but they honored my unsubscribe request, and I can read all the articles.

I wish the article didn’t skip the part about how they filled it up with mineral oil that sounds cool.

It’s a Casio.

Personally I use a backpack ever since the groceries in the spokes incident