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Re:BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as fi... by quacksilver on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:18AM (#43398087)
Cheap and recycled cookware or cooking oil would be up there on the list of interesting things to check imho

- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cml2kr9wkdzo

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00686-7

Anywhere in the supply chain to a streetfood stall, or mom and pop restaurant or cornershop/bodega equivalent could have substitutions made that other people in the chain may not notice

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Re:BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as fi... by grumpy-de-sre on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:22AM (#43398123)
Do wonder if it could be unintentionally being alloyed into recycled aluminium etc. Though I'm not sure if that's more likely than upstream routes.

Good old scientific mystery.

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