Re:The Lithium-Ion Battery May Not Be the Best Bet for EVs
by dukeyukey on Friday March 01, 2024 @11:04AM
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Why do you think I was talking about the US? I don't know where the parent poster lives.
Re:The Lithium-Ion Battery May Not Be the Best Bet for EVs
by Turing_Machine on Friday March 01, 2024 @11:48AM
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Because this is a US-based website?
In any case, the UK is 52nd worldwide in terms of population density, meaning that it is more dense than 197 other regions and dependencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
Re:The Lithium-Ion Battery May Not Be the Best Bet for EVs
by dukeyukey on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:51PM
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An American website by ownership - the actual users are pretty international. And anyway, the county I lived in was about 100 people per square mile, it about 184th in that list. Around the same as Alabama.
The UK is smaller than the US state of Oregon, which is the 9th largest state in terms of area.
There is literally nowhere in the UK that counts as "rural" by US standards. The UK has a population density of 277/km^2, while the United States as a whole has only 35/km^2. The comparison is much worse if you look at western/northern states like North Dakota (4/km^2) or Alaska (0.5/km^2). Even California (widely considered a very crowded state) has only 250/km^2, still considerably less than the UK. In fact, there are only 4 states of 50 which have a greater population density than the UK.
The old saying that Americans consider a hundred years a long time, while the British consider a hundred miles a long distance seems to be accurate even in the long term.