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  • Ferrous@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•World's largest EV never has to be rechargedEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Great question.

    That is definitely one of the big caveats of BEVs over diesels. A battery on an EV can only take in so much energy. Once you hit that ceiling, the battery won’t take in any more current. Fun fact, having a super charged battery in a BEV causes all sorts of headache and can cost you performance.

    You either have to switch back to service brakes or, as you mentioned, burn off energy as heat. Not sure how they’re doing it with this truck, but on other BEV loaders which I’ve worked on, we add a hydraulic valve whose only purpose is to create flow, pressure, and subsequently heat. It basically just adds a dummy load. I suspect they tapped into the dump hydraulics and added such a valve for this truck.

  • Ferrous@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Tiny ppEnglish
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    8 days ago

    You seem like the type who’d start dropping N bombs if you saw a person of color driving a car you deemed too loud.

    Or maybe getting ableist as fuck if you saw a wheelchair-bound person rolling coal.

    Sure, these are shitty things to do, but body shaming is the weapon of the enemy.

    Seeing deplorable behavior doesn’t give you a free pass to body shame, be racist, ableist, or misogynistic.

  • Ferrous@lemmy.mltopolitics @lemmy.world•Harris vows at Michigan rally to ‘do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza’English
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    9 days ago

    Liberals will see no problem choosing polite, handwringing genocide over rowdy, bombastic genocide. They fall so easily for style points and optics completely devoid of substance.

    20 years from now, when the only choices are between a dem who wants 20 genocide and a republican who wants 21, liberals will still be frothing at the mouths, blaming anti-genocide leftists for the country’s devoluton into fascism. This is the logical conclusion of liberal “pragmatic utilitarianism”

    In biology, one learns about a certain species of caterpillar that can only cross the threshold of metamorphosis by seeing its future butterfly. Proletarian subjectivity does not evolve by incremental steps but requires nonlinear leaps, especially by way of moral self-recognition through solidarity with the struggle of a distant people. Even when this contradicts short-term self-interest, as in the famous cases of Lancashire cotton workers’ enthusiasm for Lincoln and later for Gandhi, such efforts not only anticipate a world beyond capitalism, they concretely advance the working class’s march toward it.

    Socialism, in other words, requires nonutilitarian actors, whose ultimate motivations and values arise from structures of feeling that others would deem spiritual. Marx rightly scourged romantic humanism in the abstract, but his personal pantheon — Prometheus and Spartacus, Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare — affirmed a heroic vision of human possibility. But can that possibility be realized in today’s world, a world where the “old working class” has been demoted in agency?

    -Mike Davis

  • Ferrous@lemmy.mltoGames@sh.itjust.works•Red Dead Redemption on SteamEnglish
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    19 days ago

    This game was sort of before my time. Got to experience 2 on a beefy gaming PC, so I’m hyped for the zombie mode.

    As I was playing 2, I was constantly thinking to myself: “this would be a prime game to mod some zombies into”. Was surprised to hear they’d already done it in 1.

    Hopefully they ported it well.