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We lost Palm some time ago & Nokia has killed off Symbian. BlackBerry appears to be circling the drain.
Still, the good folks at Quartz think we have reasons to expect some diversity in the phone market:
http://qz.com/161020/six-reasons-your-next-phone-wont-have-to-run-software-from-apple-or-google// two mobile operating systems Apple Apple’s iOS Google Google’s Android control 94% market competitors BlackBerry crowdfund Ubuntu Edge smart phone smartphone mobile cell phone operating system Linux target amount Nokia CEO Stephen Elop death certificate for Symbian company’s OS 2014 challengers CyanogenMod Cyanogen root flash ROM Android operating system control device devices and doesn’t contain the junk that phone-manufacturers 10 million downloads remove removed app playstore Play store download CyanogenMod Silicon Valley’s Valley venture capital firm faith, Andreesen Horowitz $23 million round of funding MeeGo Microsoft engineers SailFish avatar Jolla hybrid Sailfish OS run Android apps app store Russian web giant Yandex Windows Phone cell mobile hardware maker Nokia Ubuntu open source open-source, Linux-based based operating system mobile phones tablets desktop computers desktop Linux users, preview versions polished unified release OS all devices PC PCs ship Ubuntu phones and tablets Tizen backed phone makers biggest phone-makers LG Huawei Samsung Mobile World Congress Firefox OS adaptive app search circular icons Mozilla browser operating system web apps websites run like apps native apps written specially rewritten platform /
Of course, the carbon footprint of an electric vehicle in your area depends on the power generation mix used there. Washington state in USA & Tasmania in Australia with largely hydro grids are obviously better than Victoria in Australia with lots of brown coal.
My solution: rooftop PV generates most of the electricity used by my EV, plus, I pay for "green energy". I.e., for a fee, my electricity provider undertakes to generate power from renewable sources &/or provide offsets for all of my power consumption, including my EV. All of the people I know who own EVs are doing at least one of these. / technological advance government consumer groups company companies sell innovative products electric vehicle Nissan Ford Chevrolet Honda Toyota Audi BMW Tesla EVs tiny fraction car cars road United States of America General Motors GM infamous electric cars car EV1 California in 1996 major issue electric vehicle complex complexity answer simple question better environment gasoline-powered cars gasoline powered petrol petroleum instinctively believe electric electricity electrical grid coal natural gas American utilities coal natural gas renewable energy sources Union of Concerned Scientists nonprofit supports scientifically sound cleaner energy policies question around emissions generated charge electric vehicles versus emissions petrol petroleum gas vehicles EV produces less greenhouse gas emissions average compact gasoline car Don Anair research deputy director UCS’s USC clean vehicles program Singularity Hub issue particulate pollution complicated overall EV electric vehicles clean cleaner track record reduce U.S. global warming pollution by four-fifths 2050 solar wind power continue become cheaper better represented electrical supply chain EVs advantage expert experts cost competitiveness solar wind geothermal biomass mix of sources Todd Foley senior vice president policy government relations American Council on Renewable Energy ACORE mix of energy sources charging your car fuel mix portfolio approach lower fueling prices better lifetime cost comparison equivalent of $1 per gallon of gasolene gasoline petrol saving fuel costs sticker price distance range charge recharge Mike Brace technical editor EVWorld niche market second household vehicle commuting workhorse Tesla charging stations inductive charging /
In 2007, Google's Android, team had been working 60+ hour weeks for over a year. They were sure they were going to take the cell (mobile) phone world by storm with their revolutionary smartphone project ... then Apple announced the iPhone ... & everything changed.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-day-google-had-to-start-over-on-android/282479// bar 2005, Google Google’s sprawling, college-like college like campus most secret ambitious team teams smartphone effort Android project Google’s Building 44 Google ad reps four dozen engineers on track deliver revolutionary device change mobile phone industry forever more consumer blown away wanted one immediately engineer start over again worked sixty to eighty 60 80 hour hours sixty-to-eighty-hour weeks fifteen months more than two years writing testing test code negotiate negotiating software licenses license flying over the world find right parts suppliers manufacturers been working with prototypes prototype six months planned plan launch by the end of the year Steve Jobs stage announce unveil the iPhone Chris DeSalvo’s DeSalvo reaction iPhone Silicon Valley iPhone iPhone’s unveiling January 9, 2007 done the impossible iPod iTunes wireless carrier build a revolutionary smartphone hairy Google size Google-size problem software industry mobile phones most dysfunctional technology wireless bandwidth users surf the Internet weren’t powerful enough rudimentary software oligopoly carriers phone makers writing software for phones wireless bandwidth improve phone chips more powerful looked carriers phone makers would control building software one device at a time Vodafone big European carrier Google search on their phones good mobile browser ring tones tone ring-tones carriers provide all the services inside walled garden AOL control best way make money few developers built software mobile phones lost money no standardization industry every phone ran own software applications meaning software written Samsung wouldn’t run Motorola phone Nokia software platforms incompatible different versions of Symbian money pit testing company Larry Page frustrate frustration frustrating share holder shareholders smartphone smart phone phones smartphones Microsoft compete monopoly Page executives mobile business Windows CE mobile phones software niche market consumers platform search tech world co-founder cofounder Sergey Brin dressed search engine’s popularity a fad U.S. government’s successful antitrust trial against Microsoft Oracle v. Google copyright trial Lass Vegas handset makers carriers Consumer Electronics Show Tseng Stanford business school Eric Schmidt Android /
i3 is BMW's electric vehicle (EV). Optionally, a range extender (generator powered by a two-cylinder, 647cc internal combustion engine (ICE)) extends its 160 km (100 mile) EV range by 128 km (80 miles).
With 125 kW (168bhp) of electric power on tap, straight line performance is good: 0-100 kph (62 mph) in 7.2 seconds for the battery only car. In the extended range version, the extra weight slows 0-100 kph time to 7.9 seconds. With this kind of performance, the two i3 models have the 2nd & 3rd best straight line performances of any commercially available EV, behind the Tesla Model S.
Once the battery is exhausted, though, the 25 kW (34 bhp) ICE powered generator can provide only much reduced performance. Apparently, the trick is to turn on the range extender while the battery still has substantial charge (BMW suggests 40%), so that the entire 125 kW of battery power remains available for acceleration & hill climbing, while the 25 kW ICE provides power for cruise.
And how does it stop & turn with that tall design & those narrow tyres? Apparently better than you might expect:
Summary: good acceleration & general performance & handling but, while the range extender is a solution to range anxiety, it will make any journey of more than 160 km a series of ~120 km "hops".
If you forget to turn on the range extender early enough, the second & subsequent "hops" could be very slow./ drive driving EVs MiniE BMW ActiveE performance ecology eco was green exotic car meets parked next to a Ferrari Lamborghini Mclaren fun daily driver funky look skinny tires fun as my ActiveE styling drive tire tyre tires tyres drivers’ EV race track track day professional professional race car driver Erin CrockervNascar racer sprint car racer stunt car driver EV newbie loves automobiles decent speeds test handling what Monticello Raceway New York video shoot ActiveE handles curves frunk garage control controls track speed increasing hairpin regenerative braking regen braking accelerator impressive closed course lap laps pits fear excitement video shoot take full electric REx extended range on track on-track abuse going flat out handling nimble handle engineer low center of gravity low weight tall weight is down low chassis stiff i3 leans lean predictable front tires grab grabbing electronic stability control sliding slide computer cutting the power fully disable anti-skid hairpin hairpins long sweeping turns corner turn quick steering turning radius brake brakes braking ride quality /
