I’m also in portland. It’s such a shithole right now. I stick to riding my euc around west of portland, and I always carry a gun nowadays.

We need more shelter space, shelter quality and security, and need to make all camping and loitering illegal and enforce it

Wtf that sounds awesome, any downside?

Btw what are sodium 18650s? A new safer version?

I mean you personally may be able to reuse them, but most people just throw their old escooter (or whatever) away when they get a new one, or at best resell it or donate it.

Image how cheap a new ebike could be if you only had to swap the batteries from your old one

I’ve been hearing that my whole life and it hasn’t actually improved much in the last 20. But yeah it would be great if you’re right.

But smart BMS with easily user-replaceable batteries is tech we could use today. Furthermore you can buy packs like that off aliexpress right now.

Also, wanting to reuse batteries from an old device after upgrading will always be a problem.

One thing that I forsee helping in the future is having 18650/21700 batteries be interchangeable like normal AA batteries are.

If devices had sufficiently smart BMS modules then we could stick any batteries into them without any added fire risk and they could simply alert us when one was bad and needed to be replaced. Also with regards to fire risk there are mitigations that should be standard (like what tesla does).

If there were no “batteries included” and they were easy to add it would cut the cost and the e-waste by a ton.

Supply and demand works the opposite of that. When there’s a niche market then things always cost more. It’s why my baddragon velocoraptor dildo cost me my second mortgage.

The lemmy user base is tiny compared to reddit, so the price is higher.

We also seem to be willing to pay it. Personally, I think it’s worth it