hdougie · HackerTrans

What makes you think anything has changed here? Certainly in the UK, there are plenty of "loopholes". Outside of PAYE, there are plenty of ways to legally lower your tax burden, and plenty of wealthy business owners and shareholders make full use of those loopholes.

hdougie

3 jaar geledendiscuss

In the UK, there are a number of tarrifs targeted at EVs ranging from around 7.5p to 11p p/kWh. Some are type of use (i.e. they monitor exactly what goes into your EV and give you a rebate for the amount that went to your EV) and others are time of use like the traditional night time tarrifs.

I'm on Intelligent Octopus which gives 7.5p p/kWh guaranteed on any electricity use from 11.30pm to 5.30am. Outside of that, if you allow it to manage your EV charge schedule, you can actually get the lower rate at other times of the day I'm guessing subject to general grid load or wholesale costs dropping. For example, I've had my EV charge until 7.30am on a couple of occasions, still at the lower rate.

hdougie

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Also from the UK (and recently converted petrol head), and anyone sensible who is charging at home is not paying the average day rate on their electricity. For example, we currently pay on average 7.5p p/kwh on our electricity. We can fully "fill" our car for around £4.50 which will buy us between 240 and 300 miles depending on type of driving. For comparison, I took our 3 year old relatively efficient ICE car to top up the fuel last night - quarter of a tank cost me £20 and only added about 100 miles of expected range (and that's at a push).

Battery packs don't need replacing "after a few years", that's hyperbole.

Having to stop on longer trips is getting better over time - granted, still nowhere near a decent diesel engine but there are plenty of EVs that can do 200-300 miles realistic range now - how many people are honestly doing trips longer than that on a regular basis, and for the ones that are, how many wouldn't already be stopping for a loo break, lunch or a coffee? I'd argue the majority of the population would manage just fine.

Not saying EVs are perfect, but there is still a lot of misinformation out there and they're getting better everyday.

Of course, if you can't charge at home then they simply don't work especially at current public charging prices (seen some stations charging ~80p kw/h which is insane!). Infrastructure still has a long way to go.

As for a Carrington Events, I have thought about this recently and yep, I guess we'd be pretty stuffed. Then again, if such a catastrophic event were to happen, I can't imagine I'd be needing the car for much - we'd likely have much more major things to be worrying about.

hdougie

4 jaar geledendiscuss

I do the same for the most part. I have the docker daemon setup both locally in Windows and also in WSL2. I then have multiple contexts setup in Windows so that I can easily switch between Windows/Linux containers from my host terminal. Thus far, I've not experienced any issues.

The initial setup was a little more complex than just running Docker Desktop, but since then, it's running flawlessly.

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