heimdali

You're using an engine to decelrate, which is called engine braking. It doesn't matter if it's an electrical engine or a combustion engine. You're assuming that you could somehow increase engine braking to compensate for a higher power output of the engine, assuming that it actually matters. I didn't give a definition. You're talking about energy, I'm talking about power. You simply need more braking power when you want to decelrate faster, and you need more power when you want to accelerate faster. I can't do math so I won't even try to show you the formulas; I only know that twice the acceleration requires four times the power, and it doesn't matter if the acceleration is one way or the other, i. e. twice the deceleration also requires four times as much braking power. Prove me wrong if you can. In any case, you have to have brakes that can handle the performance, and that means that the manufacturer needs to put those into the car, which costs more than weaker brakes. Now when you look back at the start of the thread, we seem to be talking about a car rated 400HP and when you give in to the extortion, you get an increase of 20--60%. That means you have up to 640HP, and you're telling me that Mercedes puts 400HP brakes into a 650HP car because engine braking could compensate for it. Mercedes builds some crap and some good stuff, just like other manufacturers do, but I do not believe that they skimp on the brakes like that. Do you have proof that Mercedes puts undersized brakes into the car so that buyers don't have to pay as much? Assuming that engine braking could compensate, you need to explain why they would limit the engine braking unless you give in to extortion so that you get more of that as well in order to compensate. Or is it more likely that they use as much engine braking as reasonably possible to regain as much electricity as they can all the time? People are usually very concerned about range since the range of electric cars is miserable, because it's difficult to find a place to refill, and refilling takes ages, so foregoing a longer range by limiting engine braking would seem like a very bad move. If they do limit engine braking as well, well, then that all the more means that they punish their customers for buying a way overengineered car they pay a ton of money for while the car doesn't come close to the performance they payed for unless they give in to extortion. So their intention is to make sure that there are fully working brakes since there isn't much electricity from engine braking you could put into the batteries when they are full. Mercedes can't just skimp out on the brakes, not even in Canada. As a buyer, you'll have to pay for brakes that can handle 640HP. How much does the thing weigh? About two metric tons, maybe 2.5 when loaded? I'm pretty sure that brakes that can savely handle a 2.5 ton vehicle with 640HP which is (I'm assuming) governed to max 250km/h aint cheap and that they are more expensive than brakes designed for only 400HP --- which aint cheap, either. Of course it's the same vehicle. It has been designed for 640HP and that's what the buyers pay for, not the 400HP they get.

I'm unfamiliar with those, is m.2 and nvme the same? If I wanted to get an PCI adapter card that holds at least two of these things, or better more, and works well with Linux (and software RAID), what I should I be looking for? Apparently these things can get hot? And I might want to boot from them.

Get a new monitor before it doesn't work at all anymore?

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engine "a machine for converting any of various forms of energy into mechanical force and motion" https://www.thefreedictionary.com/engine "A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion." https://www.wordnik.com/words/engine "A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion." https://www.dictionary.com/browse/engine "a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy or power to produce force and motion." 4/4 of dictionaries agree that an engine converts energy into mechanical force/motion while only 1/4 of them brings thermal energy into play. When you convert thermal energy into electricity and use it to power an electrical engine, the electrical engine runs as much on thermal engery as a combustion engine. You can use a pump to drive a boat, and when you do that, it kinda becomes part of the engine that drives the pump that drives the boat ... I leave it up to you to look up what dictionaries say what a motor is. It's something like this: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/motor "a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like."

Why does the graphic show well over 100000 cycles for when you keep the battery at 10% discharge while the table says it lasts only about 500? Going by that, it would be best to leave the phone plugged in all the time. I've done that and it destroyed the battery, so I don't believe these numbers.

For all I know whoever asks such a question has a problem with a lack of intelligence, and if the code solves it for them is only for them to decide.

That you think so doesn't mean it's true. Different manufacturers have different levels of prices for spare parts. That only works as long as you can get aftermarket parts that are of sufficient quality. If you get that quality, the prices aren't always lower. 2002 is already modern. We're not supposed to have cars anymore, and they have been made more expensive for over 30 years now.

They are electrical engines. You can call them motors when you want to, it doesn't make a difference. Show me the EC law where it says that it's sufficient to overcome the torque. And read up on physics, 5 vs. 10 seconds means four times as much energy, and you do need better brakes to accomplish that. Designing the car for more power, even when withheld, also very likely means that it weighs more, and thus you also need better brakes that can handle the extra weight.

From what I've been reading, fast charging reduces battery life. Only 4 years is nothing.

There are very few examples; usually it doesn't. When it doesn't and you do it, the computer may turn on unexpectedly when you forgot to unplug the power cable. So no, you can't just switch ... This is a mysterious situation with a very far fetched idea. A simple mechanical solution would be to take one card out and plug another one in, thereby sooner or later wearing out the contacts. That doesn't seem to be wanted. Using relais might work with hotpluggable PCI, but will that create a reliable connection? And what if one of the relais hangs, you wanna debug that?

PCI isn't hot-pluggable, so you can't just switch. You need to forget about putting it all together into one thing and find a more feasible approach.

And how long is the battery gona last like that? Who makes docking stations for cell phones? Sure there is, and it's fashionable to ignore reality and facts in favour of ones points of view. Sooner or later, reality will catch up.

Then you're going to the wrong dealership. And if you really do own two cars, you probably know that they made it so that you can't get around going to the dealership for anything more than an oilchange or new brake pads (if you're lucky) because an arbitrary place doesn't have the required testing equipment and doesn't have the special tools they need. And what do you think where the spare parts come from.

Sure it's fact, it's what Mercedes does. It's not like they build a car like that and sell it to people and then they suddenly discover that they can increase power considerably if only people keep paying for it. They must have planned it from the beginning and designed it that way and have buyers pay for it and now they make them pay extra for what they already own and payed for. You can call it extortion or leeching or whatever. If you like it enough you'd probably wouldn't think so. Or if you have enough money that it doesn't matter to you it doesn't matter.