davidrm

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by davidrm 1y ago
I'm trying my hardest to somehow summarize this story as a net positive, but to no avail. To me this reads like a badly written propaganda piece.
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by davidrm 2y ago
supervisory board of VW has 20 members, state of Lower Saxony appoints 2 (as a minority shareholder), workforce elects 7 among themselves, and 3 are trade union representatives also elected by the workforce. no one is denying it's a fo
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by davidrm 2y ago
My favorite impact that I've had on my organization was the "no agenda, no meeting". It became a meme, minutes before the agenda-less meeting was supposed to take place someone would send it to a meeting chat or email, usuall
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by davidrm 2y ago
(I'm going to assume you're serious). Only in the tech bubble could a hobby which is challenging and probably gruesome at certain points, be held against you. In any normal conversation a person who climbs literal mountains would
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by davidrm 2y ago
4680 is a cylindrical cell format, the number you quoted refers to the cell itself, when packaged into a battery with busbars, cooling, etc., the gravimetric density on pack level for model 3 is around 125Wh/kg. the number listed by BY
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by davidrm 3y ago
One would expect that a site dedicated to clean energy would know the difference between watts and watthours (i.e. power and capacity), on several occasions it claims that the capacity is X gigawatts instead of gigawatthours (GWh). It&#x2
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by davidrm 4y ago
have you read the article you linked? this literally repeats the same points I made, I don’t understand what you were trying to say.
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by davidrm 4y ago
That may be true for its fit and finish (panel alignments etc.), but the fact that they mastered vertical integration and supply chain management in less than 10 years is beyond amazing. Their powertrain (battery, motors, other hv component
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by davidrm 4y ago
I don't know where you get your information, but you've completely missed what automotive software development looks like. The amount of verification and validation, and the number of standards (most of them are self-imposed, not
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by davidrm 5y ago
Rimac Technology | Embedded Software Engineer | Onsite or Remote (Croatia/UK or Europe) Rimac Technology is an electric vehicle powerhouse, the Tier 1 supplier behind the world's most advanced and most powerful, record-breaking hy
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by davidrm 5y ago
I'm in automotive, but we have similar requirements to medical. There's no "100% fail proof" solution, it's about determining the modes of failure and addressing them individually and combined, minimizing the risk a
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by davidrm 5y ago
> Chips also go out of production suddenly (with only a couple years warning...) No they don't, automotive semiconductors suppliers have an "obligation" to manufacture the component for at least 15 years, which makes manag
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by davidrm 5y ago
Yes, but that's not the e2e efficiency of the hydrogen powertrain, a 120kW hydrogen stack found in Hyundai Nexo is as big as an average petrol engine and its energy efficiency is somewhere around 45%, so it's not only the hydrogen
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by davidrm 5y ago
I'm sure this article only tells 10% of the story from both sides, but the fact remains that some people entrusted him with his money and that his behavior made them uncomfortable, which ultimately made them remove him from the positio
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by davidrm 5y ago
I partially agree with your comment, the math is fuzzy, and I'd say that saving 5 minutes per day is absolutely worthless, I don't care about that time, it's a rounding error. There's a cliff when doing this kind of math
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by davidrm 6y ago
there's one in my hometown (Zagreb) as well! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Views Here's some blogpost with nice pictures https://punkufer.dnevnik.hr/galerija/gdje-se-u-zagrebu-nalaz.
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by davidrm 6y ago
Porsche increases stake in Rimac Automobili to 24 per cent https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2021/company/porsche-increas...
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Porsche raises stake in electric car and components maker Rimac Automobili(techcrunch.com)
2 points by davidrm 6y ago|1 comments
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by davidrm 6y ago
It’s not a concern, the more powerful the charger, the better. The devices that are being powered are the ones controlling the charging, the charging brick will derate itself if devices demand more than it can handle. It might hurt the bric
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by davidrm 6y ago
OEMs use codenames because they're often sending/receiving parts to/from external suppliers, e.g. when driveshafts go around random warehouses and logistics companies they have the codenames on the boxes and stickers. they im
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by davidrm 6y ago
Not only that! The story behind their newly founded N division is very interesting. They poached a long-time BMW executive Albert Biermann who headed multiple vehicle developments and the BMW M group, and tasked him with bringing up the N h
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by davidrm 6y ago
You could put me in charge and assuming I really go 100%, I doubt I'd pull it off. Point is, it also takes someone who really wants to and can do it. Also, I'm just a guy on the internet, I really hope Cook sees this and decides t
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by davidrm 6y ago
I work for a tier 1 EV supplier, I've spent 2 months in Hyundai's Namyang R&D center, several weeks at Aston Martin's facilities, and some others, you undersold it by A LOT. Ford, GM and other veterans on the industry hav
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by davidrm 6y ago
Apple has been in and out of the car game for a few years now, with executives coming and going. What I'm about to say will be as meaningful as this hear-say article, but I feel that Apple management, and its shareholders, have no idea
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by davidrm 6y ago
That reminds me of the foreword in the High Output Management, written by Ben Horowitz and Andy Grover's words "only the paranoid survive": “CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but only act on lagging indicato
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by davidrm 6y ago
sole definitions of avoid and evade are completely irrelevant, "tax avoidance" and "tax evasions" are well understood syntagms, former meaning utilizing any legal means in order to reduce the amount of taxes paid. simp
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by davidrm 6y ago
> What happens after 1000 charges? Usually the end-of-life for traction batteries is specified at 80% of original charge (80% state of health), after that they're recycled as industrial energy storage for grids etc. But with article
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by davidrm 6y ago
depending on the region it could be something like Mišo Kovač (Dalmatia)[1] or any tamburaši band (Slavonia)[2]. Istria and Zagorje have their own horses in the race, but I cannot name any. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by davidrm 7y ago
The entire team is within a 2 meter radius :) There are other teams within the department which are distributed in a total of 4 cities inside the same country (a sort of "hub and spoke") and with SOME of these teams, because they
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by davidrm 7y ago
> Ask, don’t tell. (“What do you think about trying…?” rather than “Don’t do…”) When I led a team of 6 people, I did the opposite. The guideline was to always use the imperative form if you knew there was a better way, especially if ther

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