Looking at the table above and your linked article the numbers don't add up. My gas guzzler has an 18 gallon tank. Looking at the taxes we see:
1. CA State Tax - $9.72
2. Fed. Excise - $3.31
6. Local Taxes - ($2.00/gal * .037) - $1.33
Which adds up to $14.36 in taxes every time I pay for a full tank. I use about a tank a week. So, I buy 52 tanks of gas a year. This works out to $746.72. I also pay car registration of ~$300 a year.
From the article you're only paying a one-time fee of $100. The registration fee is also capped $175 first year. My total tax burden (gas taxes + reg) is $1,046.72 and yours is only $275 for the first year, $175 after.
I intentionally left out the low carbon programs in my calculation to make a fair comparison. The taxes above that are paid are required to fund roads, schools, etc. None of which you're paying on your EV. You're saving $871.72 from not paying for these things.
Also, I asked chat GPT how much it costs to charge an electric vehicle at home. It gave me the formula: 60 kWh x $0.20/kWh = $12. So this would be $624/year. So assuming gas w/o taxes @ $2/gal my gas guzzler is costing me $1872 a year. $1248 more than your EV. This is some good cost savings.
So including the taxes above you are not paying and your cheaper charge rate, your total cost savings is around $2,119.72. This is a pretty decent cost savings.
So you're correct, EV vs. gas is definitely cheaper. But, the point that I'm making is that nearly 40% of your cost savings accrues from not paying taxes on necessary things like roads and schools. The cost effectiveness of EV's has more to do with tax policy than the underlying efficiency gains technology. Ideally they will become cheaper over time, but the significant cost of taxes to fund the government programs we need is going to remain.
How will I make a return on my investment, and when?
Under the terms of our Series B, our (pre-money) valuation is $585M. If we have a successful exit in the future (like an IPO, merger, or acquisition) for more than that amount, you’ll see a return on your investment. Since we’re selling the same class of stock we sold to venture capitalists in our Series B, you’ll get paid out at the same time that they do.
The article sounds like it’s beating the drum for a co-op, but it’s actually a quasi stock offering that only pays out on exit.
It sounds like you are just buying the same class of preferred stock as series B investors did, so it's not "quasi stock" it's just "stock". What is the distinction you are making?
You’ll find people frustrated with Prusa too. There was a whole discord dedicated to trying to fix all issues.
People act like having the power supply die, bed probe not being reliable, not having x axis tensioner are all normal. Just print out a bunch of parts from some randoms to fix.
Also Prusas software are forks too so weird thing to call out bambu for.
What power supply would you suggest Prusa use instead of what they are using? Is Bambu using something better?
Bambu slicer is a fork of Prusa's slicer. Prusa's slicer is a fork of Slic3r. Although perfectly fine it is notable that both Prusa and Bambu make 3d printers while the Slic3r project was just making a slicer.
AFAIK the newer Delta power supplies (black case) are fine. The older mystery meat power supplies (silver case) don't have a good reputation, but they're easy enough to replace with a Meanwell or the newer Delta unit.
> Also Prusas software are forks too so weird thing to call out bambu for.
They've been developing and supporting those forks in house for years, giving back to the community. I don't know about Bambu, but typically other Chinese companies don't really do that.
It’s a mismatch between OSM’s address format and the normal address format.
Osmand does basic string matching for search so it only finds exact matches. You search for 108 1st st Portland, OSM has 108 1st street Portland, Osmand finds nothing.
And Debian says they’re fine having non systemd but any work needed to make openrc etc viable falls on the these guys.