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Meanwhile in Germany: Let's stick to combustion engines for at least 10 more years with 500km range and a multiple of energy and maintenance costs...

> Meanwhile in Germany: Let's stick to combustion engines for at least 10 more years with 500km range and a multiple of energy and maintenance costs...

BMW is heavily invested in Neue Klasse[1], the iX3 has a long waiting list and a 800KM range.

[1]:https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/company/neue-klasse.html


Good for BMW, isn't it? According to my excel sheet 800km range is still less than 1000km range, for double, triple the price compared to a Byd?!

The range estimates use different test procedures. BMW's quoted range uses the WLTP test procedure. China's CLTC test procedure is much more generous.

As noted in the article:

> "The Seal 08’s claimed 1,000+ km CLTC range translates to roughly 620+ miles — though real-world figures under EPA or WLTP testing would be lower. For reference, the recently updated Mercedes-Benz EQS 450+ claims 926 km under WLTP (575 miles) with its new 800V architecture and 118 kWh battery."

To compare the range properly you need to do a real world test of the vehicles on the same circuit in the same conditions.


What's your spreadsheet's coefficient for emotions like fun? BMW doesn't sell cars so much as they sell a brand. It's an emotional play for buyers to need "The Ultimate Driving Machine™."

Why does it have to be so massive?

But who am I kidding? I’m not their target audience.


Their design department needs an intervention

At this point it seems EV economics will make the EU government mandates irrelevant. Electric cars will be cheaper to buy and cheaper to run. The only remaining question is how quickly rapid charging infra will be deployed which will make electric the default choice even for those of us who cannot charge at home.

The point of the mandates is to ensure that the EU car companies survive.

It's basic game theory, you all commit to ramping up delivery of EVs at the same time because one of you could benefit in the short term if you defect, so without the law everyone does so and everyone loses.


> Electric cars will be cheaper to buy and cheaper to run.

Yes they will be, some time around now or the recent past, depending on country.

Source:

https://dmnews.co.uk/electric-cars-are-now-officially-cheape...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/new-uk-e...


High prices for electricity in Europe means that's not necessarily the case. If the cost of a tank of gasoline is the same as, or even cheaper, than an equivalent charge of the battery pack, how many people are going to be convinced to go electric?

There's something to be said for letting the market decide. Something like a carbon tax would probably be a more economically effective way of dealing with CO2 than arbitrarily choosing this of that industry as a winner which hasn't exactly worked in terms of controlling carbon emissions. I think they are up about 80% since people started going on about them.

I'm an example of someone who doesn't fit the obvious ban combustion engine model. I own a German combustion engine car but don't use it much as I mostly get around by ebike + train.

Tax carbon rather than dictating which technology! My biggest emissions are probably gas heating and flights both of which have approx 0% tax so forcing me to get an electric car isn't really going to fix that. I'm not really a climate doomer but if you are, current policies are a good way to get doom.


Germany has a carbon tax* on fuel for cars. It will merge with the EU scheme when that expands to this sector and home heating in 2027.

And that EU scheme already covers aviation, though it's phased in with exemptions etc. so doesn't cover everything.

*Technically an emission trading scheme but these are basically equivalent to carbon taxes in effect.


Heavily invested. The iX3 is made in China.

I thought EV's also have maintenance costs and energy costs?

Much less so than combustion engines, unless you're not able to charge at home.

My EV gets charged by energy made in Germany and EU, that's the difference.

(0.33 to .35 euro per kwh, .4 on an old contract, double the price in France or US, and more than legendarily expensive Switzerland. Still way cheaper than the same range in gas btw)

If charging at home.

Bring in fast chargers or a lot of the commercial offerings into the mix and you're looking at .6 per kWh. Never mind the subscription/account bullshit a lot of companies are doing.

Regardless of that, I would still only ever buy an EV when I get a new car.


where are the battery materials from?

Australia via China for a decent amount of it.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spodumene


Marocco maybe?

Both maintenance and charging are negligible costs.

Yes. Even with the ludicrous subsidies and support from governments, ICEs are a nightmare to feed and maintain. (And inefficient and massively polluting.)

How much does the major service cost, if we remember it includes engine and the entire transmission?

What other maintenance costs can you think of?

And how much does it cost to drive 500 miles in the electric car charged at £0.08/kWh vs diesel at 50 mpg (£1.91/L) or petrol car at 35 mpg (£1.58/L)?


So, one of the reasons I asked is because the motors used in EV's also are usually embedded inside transmissions which require regular oil changes (like any gearbox) and the motor itself needs to be serviced every x years - or even be replaced. These motors house Neodymium magnets - which is a rare earth metal. Although, some designs like in the earlier Teslas used coils for both the stator and the rotor using a switched reluctance design.

Plus, you have to service the steering column, wheels, bearings, etc. Not saying these are equal to ICE costs - definitely not. I just thought even EVs had to get regular maintenance as they are fundamentally the same apart from the drivetrain itself.


There are the words "a multiple of" in the parent post, just before the words "energy and maintenance costs"

Which means that ICE Vehicle energy and maintenance costs are a multiple of (i.e. several times that of) EV energy and maintenance costs.

And so EV energy and maintenance costs are a fraction of the ICE energy and maintenance costs.

You can debate this assertion if you like, but first you have to read it successfully.


> but first you have to read it successfully.

1/2 * x

What do you think 1/2 here is? Stick to doom.


> What do you think 1/2 here is?

I think it's a ratio between two integers. If you have a point to make here, you also first have to write it successfully.


The multiplication factor can't be a third?

That's not how the phrase "x is a multiple of y" is typically used, so colloquiality speaking: no it can't be 1/3. That would be a submultiple

If your argument is about the actual running costs of EVS and ICE Vehicles: also no.


So, it is in fact used that way sometimes then.

I have no argument, just an observation that for six decades I've always taken multiplier to possibly mean any positive, negative, or zero value, rational or irrational, etc.


> So, it is in fact used that way sometimes then.

No, and that's the point of using a different word "submultiple".

> I've always taken multiplier

"a multiple of" is not the same thing as "multiplier". Or "submultiple" either. Different words have different meanings. So not relevant.

> to possibly mean any positive, negative, or zero value, rational or irrational,

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multiple

multiple, noun: the product of a quantity by an integer. So no.


That's what I saw as well.. How to say, it's a scam without saying "it's a scam"

Since 52 days you repost this. Doesn't add up with the "for past two weeks" bs.

After all this decades, this song and this artist are still unfathomably impressive.

Well summarized. Especially the design routines are quite obvious.

There is a longterm phenomenon, that quite a lot of pages are presented here, and not existent anymore after 12 months or so... This was already the case before the whole ai slop flodded in... But since then the rate just grew massively.

It's particularly annoying, when there is an actually useful service or app, you sign up, after a couple of months all is gone...


I first struggled with it, gave it another try couple of years later and now using it on a daily basis as a key work tool to organize my knowledge, like code snippets, documentation, roadmaps...

For me, the 2 most powerful aspects are: - as mentioned in the article, there is no pricing plan, no limits, no enshittification or feature creep... Fully usable from now to eternity

- md format! So damn easy to export it to a proper pdf file, to copy it into a html page converter etc.


Quality has always a component of subjective perception, but the percentage of outages is really undeniable. The code quality, thou, is in my opionion improving, not decreasing. When I think, what I did with Claude 6 months ago, and what I do with it now... Ask someone in the late 90s, how his experience with Windows 1995 changed, not to dare to ask, if it improved... We see a unimaginable fast-paced development compared to anything else ever before imo.


I wonder how much of this is due to actual experienced subject matters refining Claude.


Cool idea. This is smart and lean. I like it


It is very odd, indeed. It's a bit of both well known "hells of marketing": fomo on the one side (you better use us as heavily as possible), combined with mysticism of "we don't know what we created, but it's powerful and you better follow us to be on the right side"


It does, yes. Moreover, this seems to be not the first time:

> In 2022, ahead of Hungary’s last election, Direkt36 reported that Russia’s intelligence services had gained access [...]


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