A lot of kit provides management capability over HTTP(S). Being able to run a reasonably current browser to access that is preferable to using IE (hell, poking your own eyes out with a blunt pencil is preferable to using IE).
Posts by Steve Foster
834 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Oct 2007
Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7
Watchdog calls for more plugs, less monopoly in EV charging network
Re: Plug issues
There is a Dutch company, Muxsan, that specialise in retrofit upgrades for Nissan Leafs and the eNV-200 vans. They do battery replacements (either same size or bigger [for 1st/2nd gen models]), 2nd battery options, and a CCS upgrade (which means such vehicles can charge from either CCS or Chademo).
They're the only one out there that I've ever come across though (and the upgrades are not cheap).
However, it would be better if Nissan stepped up to the plate and did the right thing for their Leaf and eNV-200 owners at a reasonable price.
Re: It is still not as simple as pulling up in a forecourt and filling up a tank
Lexus cars are not built here, and the UX series is probably one of the last models from Toyota where they were still in EV-denial and betting on hydrogen to get them out of their hybrid dead-end.
Besides, they'll only sell 6 anyway...
Re: Meh... Either way
Cable theft from rapid and ultra-rapid chargers is a problem, mainly in the north-west of England. Thieving sods are just hacking or chopping the cables off, rendering the chargers unusable. The cables are not live until an EV is plugged in, so unfortunately the scrotes are not at risk of electrocution.
Re: It is still not as simple as pulling up in a forecourt and filling up a tank
It mostly is. CCS is the predominant connector, trailled by Chademo and proprietary connectors (early Tesla, mainly). Tesla and the USA are mucking about trying to establish a new standard there (NACS, I think it's called) for no obviously important reason (except perhaps N-I-H syndrome).
In the EU and UK at least, any new model launched today will have CCS.
All the CPOs are deploying CCS chargers now (some with Chademo as well, but in fewer and fewer numbers).
Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster
Microsoft wants Activision so badly, it's handing streaming rights over to ... Ubisoft?
Our AI habit is already changing the way we build datacenters
Re: Cognitive dissonance
There are a lot more computers¹ than there are vehicles, and computing power consumption is routinely close to 24×7 while vehicle power consumption isn't (possibly equivalent to 8×7), so even if every vehicle on the planet went electric, I don't think total vehicle power consumption would ever reach that of computing.
Note that I didn't say *all* "AI" is a waste. But the likes of ChatGPT aren't genuinely doing anything constructive, are they?
¹ I suspect there's probably more computers than just about any other single electrical/electronic device there is, other than smartphones (though they are computers really).
Re: Cognitive dissonance
Charging a car at 56kW is a short-term activity (1hr tops), while a 15kW GPU in a DC will be running 24×7. So that 15kW GPU will use more electricity than the car on a daily basis, and of course, it's not just *one* 15kW GPU - it's an entire DC full of the things.
Even worse, a lot of this so-called "AI" computing appears to be just a huge waste of time and energy with no discernable useful output - unlike the car, which at least serves an obvious purpose in getting people from A->B (although that activity might be unnecessary).
UK government proposes legislation to regulate umbrella companies
Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments
IBM shrinks z16 and LinuxONE systems into standard rack configs
Biden: I want standard EV chargers made in America by 2024 – get on it
Re: Good
It shouldn't, and the better charging networks do support contactless payment.
But "the modern way" is to shove everything into bloomin' smartphone apps, so that tends to be the default action now. This has superceded the previous "web first" idiocy, and will no doubt be followed in a few years by something else equally hair-brained.
If petrol forecourts were just being invented, they would be implemented along the same lines.
When ERP projects go bad: Surrey County Council's £30m ditch SAP effort delayed again
MX Linux 21.2: Middleweight Debian-based distro is well worth a look
US EV drivers won't be able to choose vehicle safety alert sounds
Smart homes are hackable homes if not equipped with updated, supported tech
Amazon stretches working life of its servers an extra year, for AWS and its own ops
Re: AD Revenue
That breaks down as $65m to make the show, and $400m set aside for lawsuits when <insert allegations of your choice/ cancel culture retrospective sin of the month> happens due to the actions of the <male lead/ female lead/ non-binary lead/ director/ producer/ alec baldwin/ all of the above>.
Instant Ump: HP Inc's subscription ink services hiking prices from next month
Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement
Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors
New batch of AstroPis relieve Ed and Izzy of duty on board the International Space Station
Time to party like it's 2002: Acura and Honda car clocks knocked back 20 years by bug
Nationwide Building Society's Faster Payments turn into Slower Payments for 2022
India takes Amazon’s biggest local e-tail alliance out of its shopping cart
If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband
Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status
Pi calculated to '62.8 trillion digits' with a pair of 32-core AMD Epyc chips, 1TB RAM, 510TB disk space
The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points
Re: Some things that would help the situation
The Twizy has such a small battery that they fit it with a standard domestic plug. There are a few public charging points that offer 13A sockets, but they're going the way of the dodo.
There is a Type 2 to 13A socket adaptor available that lets it use a wider range of charge points.
Re: Overcharging for Leccy
Ionity charge 69p/kWh for open access. It's deliberately priced so that almost no-one does, but lets them claim to be open "unlike Tesla" (though I keep coming across rumours that that may change).
If your car comes from one of the manufacturers in the Ionity consortium (BMW, Ford, Hyundai, Mercedes, VAG), you'll be able to get a much better rate.
The supermarkets with rapid chargers are about the cheapest - Lidl are at 25p/kWh, Tesco at 27p/kWh - and their slow chargers are usually free (I don't see that being sustainable!).
That's exactly how I charge my car on long trips using rapid chargers at Rugby services, Toddington, Baldock, and a couple of others I've used.
At work, I just plug in (13A socket).
When shopping, I plug in (7kW charging point). If I do nothing else, it'll only give me a 15 minute charge and then stop, but if I use an App (ugh) or log in online, it'll charge for as long as I'm there.
In some places I shop, there's a rapid charger option which is then back to "plug in, tap to pay, do stuff, unplug" again.
It's interesting watching the EV charging environment dynamically changing. I imagine it's not that dissimilar to how petrol forecourts developed in the post-war period as car ownership took off.
The crucial difference is that almost anywhere a car can be parked can potentially have some charging capability (even if it's only 3kW).
I suspect that eventually it'll be routine to plug cars in whenever they're parked, and that rapid chargers will be mainly used on long journeys.
Re: Some things that would help the situation
1. "Type 2" connectors are pretty much universal for AC charging (generally for slow charging, but can support rapid charging at 43kW [for compatible combinations of charger and vehicle]). For rapid DC charging (50kW+), there are two main connectors - CCS (VHS!) and ChaDeMo (BetaMax!). CCS has essentially won this particular war (it helped that CCS is an extension to Type 2, so a single port covers all charging options).
2. The charge networks are rapidly moving towards contactless payment as the main method. It'll be interesting to see if their membership schemes (which usually give lower unit prices) survive.
3. They do (or is that what you were saying?).
Our Friends Electric: A pair of alternative options for getting around town
Where's the boss? Ah right, thorough deep-dive audit. On the boardroom table. Gotcha
Toyota reveals its work on an honest-to-goodness cloak of invisibility
UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients
Waymo self-driving robotaxi goes rogue with passenger inside, escapes support staff
Their 'next job could be in cyber': UK Cyber Security Council launches itself by pointing world+dog to domain it doesn't own
Missile systems software dev leaker has sentence almost doubled after UK.gov says 4½ years was too soft
Delayed, overbudget and broken. Of course Microsoft's finest would be found in NASA's Orion
Chrome release cycle accelerated to four-weekly frenzy
Re: Desktop OS
The question that remains then is what's the 2nd-most prevalent OS shipped with new PCs...
Windows is assumed to be #1; you state ChromeOS is #3 and macOS #4. While I wish it was possible, I don't believe Linux can be #2, but what else is there? Or did you really mean that ChromeOS is now the 2nd-most [...] ahead of macOS?
UK's National Cyber Security Centre sidles in to help firm behind hacked NurseryCam product secure itself
UK taxman is supposed to know how IR35 reforms work but still lost appeal against TV presenter Kaye Adams
Re: Stop going after the small fish.
Not only should they stop aggressively pursuing those least able to defend themselves, but how about actually getting rid of the loopholes by abolishing all the various unnecessary different ways of taxing work, and just make it so that all forms of direct remuneration for work are taxed the same.