"Royal Mail has launched its first fleet of eight electric heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) at its Midlands and North West Parcel Hubs. The vehicles will operate 24 hours a day, handling ‘middle-mile deliveries between hubs and mail centres.
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The company already operates the UK’s largest electric delivery fleet, with more than 7,000 vans charged on-site with renewable electricity."
$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow, lower than I would imagine. (and it can be as low as $0.12 where rates are lower.).
"During testing, the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling a gross combined weight of 75,000 pounds (34 metric tons) over a 390-mile (625 km) long-haul route."
a tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.
Xilinx XC7Z010, the first Zynq I've decapped.
Top metal has pretty significant damage because it spent over an hour in the acid to get all of the substrate off, then several fairly aggressive cleaning cycles to remove most of the polyimide (but there's still some golden residue scattered around, I'll try some more cleaning tomorrow to try and get all of it and re-image)
But this die is destined to be stripped to substrate so I can do floorplan analysis, so that's …
@… mentioned in his recent video how some hams like to make antennas.
Guilty as charged.
It was only last night that I finished my new linked dipole. But sometimes I want to operate with a vertical. Putting radials on the ground has worked pretty well on North Carolina Piedmont clay, but on dry sand near the beach, t…