I’m also in portland. It’s such a shithole right now. I stick to riding my euc around west of portland, and I always carry a gun nowadays.

We need more shelter space, shelter quality and security, and need to make all camping and loitering illegal and enforce it

Isn’t this dead horse about 6 months out of season?

Why is the HP game trending again?

I have terrible news for you about the shareholders of almost every company on earth. They’re much worse but aren’t famous and keep their mouths shut on twitter.

Wtf that sounds awesome, any downside?

Btw what are sodium 18650s? A new safer version?

I mean you personally may be able to reuse them, but most people just throw their old escooter (or whatever) away when they get a new one, or at best resell it or donate it.

Image how cheap a new ebike could be if you only had to swap the batteries from your old one

I’ve been hearing that my whole life and it hasn’t actually improved much in the last 20. But yeah it would be great if you’re right.

But smart BMS with easily user-replaceable batteries is tech we could use today. Furthermore you can buy packs like that off aliexpress right now.

One thing that I forsee helping in the future is having 18650/21700 batteries be interchangeable like normal AA batteries are.

If devices had sufficiently smart BMS modules then we could stick any batteries into them without any added fire risk and they could simply alert us when one was bad and needed to be replaced. Also with regards to fire risk there are mitigations that should be standard (like what tesla does).

If there were no “batteries included” and they were easy to add it would cut the cost and the e-waste by a ton.