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Byd has shown us that the 400 kilometers load in five minutes is very real. And they have managed to change their minds

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Designed for heavy but practical transport for the daily car. And an advance that has raised some controversy in the battle that China-Occident in the battle for the electric car. It is the 1 MW charger of byd. The same one that, they promise, can load 400 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes and with which, in the words of Stella Li (vice president of the company) equals “the experience of Fill a deposit of gasoline “. It is definitely one of the advances in the electric car that has raised the most interest in recent months. And in Xataka we have tried it. Yes, it is very real In a concessionaire and next to other lesser power chargers. Byd has shown us the operation and recharge of its 1,000 kW or 1 MW charger. An experience that promises to match the times of gasoline but that, they assure from the company, is not primarily thought for cars. Last March, Byd hit the table showing your most powerful loaders to date. Immediately, domino’s chips fell and we knew that Catl and Huawei also confirmed that had ready their own ultra -grape load suppliers. The race for the electric car in China advances at a devilish pace that has taken us at the end of this June, just over two months later from the announcement, to see these loaders in operation. The expansion of the more than 4,000 points that the brand aspires to have very soon in its country clashes frontally with the slowness in Spanish facilities. Be that as it is, the truth is that two byd cars can now recharge in this type of facilities. They are the byd and tang l, two electric mounted on their super e-platform that can assume the power of its megawatt flash charger, a load point known as the 1,000-1,000-1,000: 1,000 kW, 1,000 amps and 1,000 volts. A BYD TANG L at the 1MW load station And that’s what we saw. First with a Byd Tang L and, later, with a Byd have l, the company showed us the system load capacity. For this it is necessary to plug the two hoses that leave the supplier. The car, like a Porsche Macan, has two load shots (one on each side) and plug at the same time. Once the two shots are connected, the load begins from the vehicle. And magic happens. In two minutes, 7% battery capacity has passed to almost 40% of it. One is hypnotized When you see on the central screen the 1,000 kW of load power and the percentage of the battery upload. The maximum peak does not last too much. But that is not too much problem. After 20%, the power falls to 750 kW and it remains so until 30%. It is not then that it is maintained with sufficiency in 700 kW or slightly below. Thus it will come with hardly any drop to 80%. At that pace, moving from a brief 7% to 80% autonomy leads to, just over five minutes. And that 80%, In a car with 83.2 kWh Battery are about 67 kWh available. To lower the data to the ground, two questions. Is it a lot of power? It is a lot of power. It is a barbarity. To get an idea, the most powerful load points that are in Spain Sinde 350 kW and begin to consider loads of 500 kW. Have a car that carries, when the power drops, at 700 kW is to fold the most advanced vehicles at the moment, from the Porsche Taycan and Audi GT e-tron to the KIA EV6 and Hyundai ioniq 5. Just a handful get these figures in Europe. Really load 400 kilometers in five minutes? Yes and no. We explain ourselves. The 67 kWh that would have available any of these two cars with 80% load equals just under 350 real kilometers with a consumption of 20 kWh/100 kilometers. If you talk about 400 kilometers in five minutes it is because the Chinese homologation system is much more lax than WLTP. This has led us to receive news from China from cars with 1,000 kilometers of autonomy that would not support an exam in Europe. Despite this, we must not crucify how to measure in the Asian country. You have to take into account the peculiarities of each market. The homologations are assumed, both the Chinese and the European WLTP try to simulate the use that an average driver would give it. That in China, where the car is used as a ciudad already low speed (also in the ringms) it is much more likely that the average consumption is lower than for a European driver. It is something that have confirmed different Chinese brands: the car is for urban use, for the long trips bullet trains and airplanes are used. Is it really practical? When Byd gave the news, the competitors soon answered. As we have seen, Catl and Huawei came out to point out that they also had similar widths for imminent expansion. From Europe the message was another: That loading power is useless. That was what they pointed out in Mercedes. An opinion that can be controversial and shared before going to China. Now, I thought things better. What they maintain in Mercedes is that so much power is not necessary because, generally, when we stop we are standing for more than five minutes. And it doesn’t matter if we are going to have coffee or, simply, fill the car deposit. In the latter we spend more time of five minutes. If we are barely stopped 10 minutes, it recharges it with a car that can fill its batteries at 350 kW of power does not change much with respect to Byd’s proposal. And, if this power is supported, in just 10 minutes almost 60 kWh capacity will have been filled. That is, 300 kilometers with the previous calculations. In practice, the difference is not much. A … Read more

A third of Spain will be completely dark for one or two minutes. The astronomical event of the century is approaching

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We still have the healthy envy of seeing the Spectacular images of the total solar eclipse that toured Mexico, the United States and Canada just over a year ago. It was an event that paralyzed a continent, especially in the so -called “totality strip”, the areas that were completely dark. Well, the next great cosmic appointment has Spain as a global protagonist. And we will not have to wait long. August 12, 2026. In just over a year the first total visible solar eclipse will take place since 1905, a unique opportunity in more than a century. Together with Iceland, which will enjoy 58 seconds of totality, we will be the only country in the world that can see all the phases of the eclipse. And let’s be sincere: in the middle of August, our possibilities of having clear skies are considerably greater than those of the Icelanders. Context. A total eclipse occurs when the moon aligns perfectly between the sun and the earth, projecting a shadow that immerses the lucky ones in a twilight darkness in the middle of the day. In the 2026 event, this shadow, the strip of totality, will have about 300 kilometers wide and will cross Spain from west to east, from Galicia to the Balearic Islands. The autonomous communities that will be under the shadow cone of the totality are Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, the Basque Country, La Rioja, Aragón, Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands. Madrid will be right on the edge, with a fleeting totality in the north of the region. But the rest of the country will not stay empty and witness a very partial partial eclipse, with a coverage of more than 90% (and up to 74% in the Canary Islands, with Lanzarote as the island with better seats for the show). Almost two minutes. An essential tool to plan the observation of the eclipse to the millisecond is the Xavier Jubier interactive map. This resource is the gold standard for eclipses hunters because it allows you to click anywhere on the map to obtain the exact hours of each phase, the duration of the totality, the altitude of the sun in the area … The eclipse will start just before sunset. The totality phase will take place around 20:30 (summer peninsular time), with the sun already very low on the horizon. This turns observation into a race to counterreloj against sunset. In cities like Oviedo, the totality will last 1 minute and 48 seconds, only a few more moments in Burgos, León or the Island of Mallorca, which is emerging as one of the most tourist places where to see the eclipse (with the disadvantage that the sun is put before in the peninsular northwest). Safety first. As much as I tempt us, look directly in the sun, even partially eclipsed, can cause permanent eye damage. During all partial phases (before and after the totality), it is necessary to wear certified glasses to see eclipses or indirect methods to observe it. For the rest, it will be enough to look for a high observation place, with a horizon clear of mountains or buildings to the west so as not to miss the one that will undoubtedly be the astronomical event of the century. In Xataka | Mars eclipses are ridiculous compared to ours. The reason is an extraordinary numerical chance

In a desperate attempt to avoid the blackout, Ree tried to start a gas center seven minutes before the disaster

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The Official reports on the blackout They reveal the maneuvers to counterreloj that the network operator did to try to stabilize the system while rushing into the collapse. T-7 minutes. In the moments of maximum tension (never better) prior to the historic blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula without light on April 28, Red Electric took a desperate measure: he ordered the start of a combined gas cycle center to try to stabilize an electrical system that crumbled at times. The call to the owner of the plant, registered in official reportsthere was just seven minutes before the system collapsed completely at 12:33 at noon. However, the thermal power plant never coupled then The zero of tension It occurred first. It was not a typical morning. That April 28 were the perfect conditions to test the network: a relatively low energy demand, and a very high solar radiation that caused a massive predominance of photovoltaic generation. With a network dominated by the electronics of investors instead of the heavy turbines of the conventional generation, the tension already issued warning signals. At 11:00 in the morning, after a voltage climb, the transformers of two Adif substations in Zaragoza were fired. But the situation became critical from 12:00, with the appearance of strong frequency oscillations that put the stability of the entire network in check. The oscillations. At 12:03, a first 0.6 Hz oscillation was detected, an unusual phenomenon that lasted for almost five minutes, forcing Red Eléctrica to take emergency measures. Among them, reduce electricity exchanges with France and Portugal. It didn’t help much. At 12:19, a new 0.2 Hz oscillation shook the system. Given the seriousness of the situation and the need to “attach more conventional generation” to control the tension, Red Electrico contacted at 12:26 with the head of a combined cycle center in Andalusia to start urgently. The choice was not accidental. The group that could be attached faster in the southern zone was sought, one of the most affected by instability. The chosen central, which had decoupled at 9:00 in the morning, was “hot”, which allowed it a shorter start time: an hour and a half. The goal was to be fully operational at 2:00 p.m. Unfortunately, the system did not have that time. Just seven minutes after the starter order was given, at 12:33, a succession of waterfall generation, mainly due to surgeens, caused the total collapse of the peninsular electrical system. The measure, a last resort to avoid the greatest blackout in the recent history of Spain, “never consummated by the zero of tension.” Image | HRAD (CC by-SA 3.0) In Xataka | Many plants disconnected from the network when the blackout began. The problem is that some renewable did it before

In Spain a book is published every six minutes. It is the symptom of a bubble that does not stop inflating

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When talking about the health of the editorial industry in Spain, publication figures are usually used to justify the good condition that the book business lives. However, rapid accounts lead to thinking perhaps just the opposite: excess launches may be hypertrophy the bookstores, which are suffocated by a series of very uninjury side effects. How much is published? The Latest public data from the Ministry of Culture They speak of 92,000 books a year with ISBN, that is, more than 250 books a day. Every minute, six books. And that telling only the launches with legal deposit, that is, we do not count the self -edge (last year, it was around the three newspapers … By author) For platforms as widespread as Amazon. That do not count as part of the editorial cake but add thousands of potential titles per month to the mountain of slopes of the troubled readers. Success is what is sought. Why so much novelty? There are a number of reasons that make up a very complex ecosystem to explain this production overdose. On the one hand, it is an editorial strategy for compensate for the fall in sales by book: except Bestsellers And specific successes, the books sell less, the runs are lower and the publishers multiply their offer to cushion it. From there comes a constant publication and search of that new success that supplies the previous one. The fact that Increase global income Although the runs fall, it is proof that The strategy works. Oihan Iturbide, former Editor, counted in the jump that “the editorial industry looks more like a fast food chain than a restaurant with a good homemade menu: the key is in volume, not in quality.” Many are. On the other hand, there is the proliferation of new publishers: In 2024Spain had approximately 3,160 active publishers. It does not imply a very notable change with respect to previous years (comparable to 2016, and notoriously less than 3,564 of 2009, year with Spain in a very different economic context). Of these, only about 2,000 publishers launch more than 10 titles per year, and only 13 exceed 700 annual titles. Is it a note of diversity and vitality of the sector? Yes. But also of the enormous contrast between the large Spanish editorial groups (Planet and Penguin Random House, more Santillana in the educational field) and the rest: According to the Federation of the Editors Guildthree out of four books come from these groups. The distribution fish. This overproduction atmosphere (Rubén Hernández, by Errata Naturae, Talk about those 92,000 books per year “One third is returned to the darkness of the stores and is probably guillotine”) is contaminated with the complex distribution system in Spain. This is also Hernández: “The publisher publishes with a price (…) of 10 euros and it is sent to the distributor. The bookseller buys it with a discount close to 35%, from which he obtains his benefit, and pays 6.5 euros to the distributor, which stays 2 euros and pays the remaining 4.5 euros, that he does not pay him, but offers him a loan. “ The snowball continues to grow: “In turn, the distributor claims to the editor of his 4.5 euros, which he does not pay him, so he contracts a debt. And to reimburse it, the editor has no choice but to invest the 4.5 euros he has won (but he must) in another book that, after arriving at the bookseller, activates his credit, while the distributor enters another 2 euros. Book, the editor and the bookseller receive debts or credits. A vitiated system very similar to a bubble that continues to grow without brake. Are all bad news? No: the evidence that it is published too much allows publishers to realize that The situation can become unsustainable. Possible solutions to Very vicious system of returns in bookstores. The excess of supply is not bad in itself, unless it leads to overproduction and atibor the system until it is bursting. It is obvious that six books per minute are too many, but … who is the first to start with the cuts? Header | Photo of Pierre Bamin in Unspash In Xataka | Adult books are therapeutic. But behind there is a framework of demands, plagiarism and complaints

An object never seen on the Milky Way is emitting radio waves with X -rays exactly every 44 minutes

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The Milky Way continues to present new mysteries through the telescope. An international astronomer team has discovered an objectuntil now unknown, which emits powerful radio bursts with a watchmaker’s precision. But the strangest thing is that we know that they are accompanied by X -rays. Context. One of the cosmic fashion phenomena in astronomy magazines are transitory long -period radio objects (LPRT), whose understanding is still in diapers. Since 2022 only 10 have been identified, which were overlooked or confused with other celestial objects. LPRT emit bursts of radio waves periodically, but with much longer intervals (of minutes or hours) than traditional pulsaries, which usually have periods of second or milliseconds. The progress in radio telescopes has opened a window to the transitory universe that allows astronomers to identify LPRTS more easily. One of the most powerful radio telescopes is the Australian Matrix Askap, which consists of 36 parabolic antennas 12 meters in diameter acting as a single instrument of 4,000 square meters. Double surprise. Astronomers have just added a new layer of complexity to the world of LPRTS with the discovery of Askap J1832-0911, an object that emits powerful radio wave explosions. Your pulses last two minutes and repeat every 44 minutes and 12 seconds. The finding is important because it is just the tenth LPRT discovered and places the new object among the 30 most brilliant radio sources in the sky. But the surprise came to cross the data with observations of the NASA X -ray Space Telescope. Chandra had observed the same area of ​​the night sky at the same time as Askap (what scientists have compared with “finding a needle in a haystack”). The Observatory discovered X -ray emissions from the same point and with the same cycle of 44 minutes and 12 seconds. It is the first time that an LPRT emitting waves of both frequencies. Collapsed lines. ASKAP J1832-0911 is around 15,000 light years from Earth, in a very populated region of our galaxy. This location greatly hinders its study in other wavelengths, because there are many objects that could be obscuring it, and an immense amount of dust that blocks our line of vision. Infrared searches have also not yielded results, although hope is put into future observations with the James Webb space telescope. Unlike other LPRTS that seem to “light” and “turn off” intermittently, the object has been active during the 10 months that observation has lasted, although with a variable brightness. The million dollar question. What exactly is Askap J1832-0911? There are many theories about what type of object could be producing such regular and energy signs. This object is different from everything we have seen before, but researchers do not believe it is an extraterrestrial civilization sending messages because the emission spectra are too broad. Instead, two main suspects shuffle. The first is an old magnetar: a neutron star with incredibly powerful magnetic fields in his last stage of life, possibly orbited by another star. The second is an ultra -freeized white dwarf: the remnant of a low -dough star at the end of its evolution, with an exceptionally strong magnetic field and a companion star. But for this theory to fit, the white dwarf would need the most intense magnetic field ever detected in one of its class, surpassing the 5 × 109 gauss. We know nothing. “Finding such an object suggests the existence of many more”, Nanda Rea saysCo-author of the study and professor of the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) in Spain. “The discovery of its X -ray transitory emission opens new perspectives on its mysterious nature.” This discovery not only adds a new mystery to the list of things that we do not understand the universe. He also suggests that LPRTS, of which we barely know 10, are more energy than was thought. Hunting to find more objects like this and decipher its origin has only begun. Image | POT

I had no idea how to execute a local AI and I just did it in five minutes with my Android. It has been a disaster

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The career of whom he manufactures The most capable smartphone It will not be alone in its components: AI has become an essential absolute To win this battle. Gemini He is the absolute protagonist, both in Android and in an iOS in which The presence of AI is insignificant. A complete and capable assistant, with the requirement of being permanently connected to the Internet. Google, Gemini’s mother, has decided Give 100% local models a chance in Android. Including those of its competitors. I, who had never executed a local AI on a PC, I have been able to achieve it on my phone in five minutes. 10 Google applications that could have triumphed Installing Google ai Edge Gallery Google has released an open source app so that any user can interact with multimodal AI models. It is completely free, has no publicity, and its only limitation is that it is not published in Google Play Store. You have to Download it from github. It is as easy as clicking on the link and downloading the file, which weighs 115 MB. Once you have downloaded it, click on it and install like any other app. Depending on the customization layer you use and the browser from which you download it, it is possible that the system asks for the occasional permission. Give it without fear, since it is a clean Google app. Once installed, the app will be in the application drawer or desktop of your phone, depending on your layer. Just open it and download the available models to start using it. Using the local AI in my Android This application allows you to use four predetermined models of the local AI: GEMMA-3N-E2B-IT-Int4 GEMMA-3N-E4B-IT-IN4 GEMMA3-1B-IT-Q4 Qwen2.5-1.5b-Instruct Q8 Each of these names is very likely to sound to Chinese, but there is a very simple summary. Gemma are the Google models, and the number behind “E2B, E4B, 1b”, refers to the parameter number of each model (2 billion, 4,000 million, 1,000 million). This means that, in order, Gemma 3 1b is the fastest, but more basic model, followed by E2B and with E4B to the head as the most complete. On the Qwen side, it is a Chinese model developed by Alibaba, with 1.5 billion parameters, and quite logical precision. These are the models that the app brings, but we can install models on our own. What I win and what I lose using the local The Google app is designed to execute three scenarios of use: Images questions: problem solving, identifying objects, etc. Prompt Lab for summaries, rewriting texts and code generation. Ai Chat: Multi -urnal conversations with AI The local AI is somewhat more limited in these scenarios of use, but in return it is more private. It runs 100% on your phone, without connection to servers. This minimizes response latency, something that I wanted to verify with a fairly simple test: the translation of a text not too extensive. “If the computing power on each chip continue to grow exponentially, Moore real Demanded Were Useful in Business Applications, Too. Defense Contractors Thought About Chips Mostly As a Product that Could Replace Older Electronics in All The Military Systems. “WHEN US DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT MCNAMARA REFORMED MILITARY PROCUREMENT TO CUT COSTS IN THE EARLY 1960S, CAUSING WHAT SUB IN THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY CALLED THE” MCNAMARA DEPRESSION, “FAIRCHILD’S VISION OF CHIPS FOR CIVILS SEEMED PRISON Off-The-Shelf Integrated Circuits for Civilian Customers Even Sold Products Below Manufacturing Cost, Hoping to convince more customers to trym. “ Chatgpt (4th): 5 seconds Deepseek: 19 seconds The local Google (Gemma 3 1b): has not understood the instruction. Google local (Gemma 3 E2b): 26 seconds. Google local (Gemma 3 E4b): 34 seconds. Google local (Qwen 2.5): 16 seconds. The results are quite irregularand that is that the app is in its initial stage. The main problem I have found is that sometimes it is difficult for him to execute the model, even in cases of light models such as Qwen. In a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra I had to restart the app on some occasion, since I did not execute the prompt. I have also wanted to prove how simple problems solve with the visual understanding of images, using the heavy model E4B of Gemma. It has also been quite disaster. In the first attempt I have asked him to solve all the problems. He has succeeded. In the second, I have asked him to solve only the first. He was wrong and, after telling him that it was wrong, he has err. Yes, he does a good job recognizing elements in the images, but it still has a hard time going further (Google just lets his Gemma models choose for these tasks). The conversational assistant works well, with its limitations, but well. It serves to talk and help us with any task that we can think of that you do not need a real -time search on the Internet. If you are especially jealous with your privacy, and want to execute the without any server connection, it is a relatively valid alternative. Google has this app as a test laboratory. At least for now it is not a real alternative, much less, to Gemini. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Artificial Intelligence on your PC: The best free tools to install models of AI as Deepseek, call, mistral, gemma and more

What is, how it works and how to use Google AI to organize information sources or create podcasts in minutes

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Let’s explain What is and how works Notebooklma Google tool to organize your sources using artificial intelligence. It is a curious element, in which you can upload several articles or documents and then ask questions about them or create an audio summary as if it were a podcast. We are going to start the article explaining what this program is exactly, so that you can understand its operation. Then we will tell you how it is used and the options you have available. What is Notebooklm Notebooklm is a service that allows you to use artificial intelligence to interact with a content you decide. Everything you ask and do will have to do with The sources that you have added manuallyand the information will not be obtained from another site. When you use Chatgpt, Gemini or other artificial intelligence chatbot, when asking a question you will get the information from the data with which it was trained and internet. However, with notebooklm The data is removed only from the sources that you addthe articles or documents that you raise to each of the projects, which can be PDF, text files or web pages, even YouTube videos or slides of Google Slides. In addition to that, you can also Create writings or audio summaries From these data. These audio summaries are practically a podcast. Therefore, this Magic notebook It is a kind of Research and Writing Assistant. It can help you learn more from certain texts without having to read them all, something that can also be useful when studying, since by power, you can even ask you to ask you questions and then answer them. Notebooklm is a free toolalthough it also has a payment version for those who have a subscription with Google One to access the best versions of the Google AI. This payment version includes style customization options, collaborative notebooks or more audio summaries, notebooks and the possibility of adding more sources in each. Finally, it is important to know that Notebooklm also has several negative aspects. To start, sometimes you lack precision when finding data in your sources, not finding data that are there. In addition, you can make mistakes and invent things with the classic hallucinations of artificial intelligence, and is still too slow with the answers. How to use Notebooklm You can use notebooklm Through its official website or by mobile applications. The official website is Notebooklm.google.comwhich you can access from any application. And you have the applications In Google Play For Android and In the App Store For the iPhone. Notebooklm is divided into notebooks, which are work spaces. The first thing you will have to do, therefore, is to create a new one. Once inside, both in the application and on the web, in general You will have three columns or sections in which each notebook is divided. On the left you have the fountains. Here, You can add one or more sources. Everything you upload will be what analyzes Google’s artificial intelligence when you ask you questions or ask for content. They can be text documents, slides, PDF, YouTube videos or even links to web pages or online items. Then you have the section of Chatwhich is where you will be able to ask Google’s AI all the questions you want. When you do them, then you will analyze the text and generate an answer. It is here that you will need creativity to ask what you want or ask you to generate different types of text or summaries of what is in the articles. And then you have the section of Studio. In it, you will be able to create an audio with A summary of the sources provided In this project. This summary is almost like a podcast, and you will be able to eliminate or download it. It can be a fantastic tool to have audios to listen at any time, and you can reproduce it from the web or the app. In Xataka Basics | The best PROMPTS to save working hours and do your homework with Chatgpt, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

Stop interrupting every two minutes

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Improve productivity It is one of the biggest concerns of companies. However, a Microsoft study He has revealed that the main ballast for this productivity improvement is the bosses themselves and co -workers who They do not stop interrupting one another. The data suggests that not even those who are remote manage to get rid of that scourge that prevents employees concentrate on your work. 80% of employees acknowledge feeling exhausted because of the amount of interruptions suffered throughout the day. Silent exhaustion in the office. The Labor fatigue Not only is it due to the fulfillment of the working days, but also an invisible but constant phenomenon is added: interruptions. Each notification, message or consultation that is received from a partner is undermining the Capacity for concentrationthat in itself It is not in your best dimensions. The known as “Ping fatigue“Prevents that both the productivity of remote workers and those who are in person in the office can be increased, as they expect 53% of the leaders and managers surveyed for the Work Trend Index 2025 Report of Microsoft, which collects information from 31,000 employees and managers from 30 countries. 275 interruptions per day. According to the data collected by Microsoft, each employee receives an average of 275 interruptions per day at work. Those interruptions that They fight for your attention They include from emails, messages from the corporate messaging platform, meetings or consultations of other colleagues in face -to -face work models. This means that approximately, the workflow is stopped every two minutes to answer a question, address a notification or attend an urgent un programmed meeting. Taking into account that the brain needs between 10 and 20 minutes to re -reach the optimal level of concentration, it makes it impossible for an employee to even pretend to be productive. However. Not advance. The constant interruptions not only affect concentration, but also generate a feeling of chaos and disorganization that does not help to be productive. Employees are forced to change task continuously, which hinders the completion of important projects and increases the feeling of stress and exhaustion caused by multitasking and the constant objective changes. 48% of employees and 52% of managers who have participated in the Microsoft survey claim that their workload is chaotic and fragmented. Meetings do not help. The data reveal that meetings beyond eight In the afternoon, 16% year -on -year have increased, because people participate in different time slots in 30% of them. However, the main chaos generator in organization of the days is that 60% of these meetings are not scheduled and convened improvisedly. Microsoft has detected that improvisation means that, in the 10 minutes prior to those last minute meetings, the use of PowerPoint grew by 122%. That is, employees had to leave what they were doing, to finish the presentations they had to use in the improvised meetings. Microsoft’s solution: convert employees into bosses. Microsoft’s report points out that the arrival of AI agents Specialized will contribute to the reduction of these interruptions since it will be the agent himself who dissipates those doubts that the partner responded before. 82% of the managers of the companies that have responded to Microsoft ensure that digital labor is a priority for them in the next 12 to 18 months. However, and despite the changes that AI promises to contribute to the labor market, there is something against which the agents of AI will not be able to fight: The improvised meetings at the last minute. In Xataka | We know that resting improves productivity. And coffee break at work is the best example Image | Unspash (Mimi Thian)

400 kilometers loads in five minutes of ByD are as impressive as it is not very useful. At least they think of Mercedes

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“Probably, no.” With that forceful response, Andrew Cornelia, CEO of Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging and therefore the head of the company’s recharge systems, explained his opinion on the Awesome recharge system presented by byd A few days ago. The answer has arrived in Plugged-in podcastthe radio space of Insideevs. There, Cornelia explained that the exercise for having such a rapid recharge under the arm obeys the need to give a backup to users than to the real utility of the same. The origin of these comments must be sought in the presentation of ByD a few days ago. The company confirmed that it has two cars ready and a load platform that allows recharging up to 400 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes. They get it, on paper, Delivering 1 MWh of sustained power. At the time we explain that it would be necessary to do to what extent it is true to recharge 400 real kilometers in five minutes. Keep in mind that the Chinese homologation cycle is much more lax than the European WLTP that, in fact, It does not completely reflect consumption From electric cars at highway speeds 120-130 km/h in the vast majority of European countries. With such a power, yes, the data is almost irrelevant because to fill 400 kilometers in five minutes it is possible that very little more time is needed. Of course, you have to have some conditions into account. The first is that, Assuming a consumption of 20 kWh/100 kma figure that is not especially good or exceptionally high, it would be necessary to fill the battery with 80 kW to make those 400 real kilometers of autonomy. This implies that a much larger battery is needed. Keep in mind that the loading power decays substantially when the battery goes from 80% capacity to protect from excessive degradation. The usual thing is that the cargo peak arrives, at least, after the first 10%. Therefore, filling 80 kW from 10 to 80% of the battery capacity would imply having about 115 kWh capacity under the body. In addition, the charger must be able to supply this power during those five minutes without resenting the least. The load should be, at least with a power of 960 kW. An absolutely unknown figure currently in European loaders. For Mercedes it makes no sense And they are probably right. Although those 400 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes sound especially good, what they say in Mercedes is that a stop to fill a gas tank involves stopping about 10-12 minutes on average. And that is where you have to point. In order to load that amount of kilometers, huge infrastructure is needed around each electric car. Byd will have to display your own loaders And only a few cars can assume that stream of electrical power. To get an idea, a Tesla Model and Juniper It has the capacity to recharge its batteries at 270 kW (about three times) and a Porsche Taycan, one of the models with the best figures on the market, “only” admits 320 kW of power in a recharge. With 320 kW of power, Porsche Taycan only needs 18 minutes to move from 0% battery to 80%. With that 80% battery, which has a useful capacity of 97 kWh, it should be able to make the aforementioned 400 real kilometers. If we add that the driver will never arrive with 0% battery to the load point … it is expected that with the appropriate charger the Porsche Taycan receives that amount of energy in 15 minutes more or less. According to Mercedes accounts, there is hardly any difference with what would take time to fill the deposit. In fact, I encourage anyone to think how long it takes to make a stop during a long trip with a combustion car. I do not talk about sitting down to eat, maybe or to ask for coffee, enough to go to the bathroom. I doubt that the driver has to “wait for the car” in that case, it is very likely that little by stretching his legs he has the battery ready to continue again. And we are not talking about 200 kilometers, we talk about replenishing 400 kilometers in just over 10 minutes. However, Mercedes gives relevance to the development of this type of rapid recharges. “It’s key,” says Cornelia in the podcast. “It’s an amazing advance, The industry will follow its example“, But stressed that” there is only a limited number of use cases in which such a fast recharge really makes sense (…) If you go to the cinema, you do not need a 1,000 kW load. You need something that lasts two hours. If you go to a cafeteria, you may want something faster, but it is still a 15 -minute stop to enter and leave. “ In spite of everything mentioned above and although Mercedes has recognized us That they prefer to focus on efficiency and low consumption or a greater and better density of their batteries, it is true that Byd’s advance is very interesting. First for the company that allows you to have an added value in the process of purchase of the next electric car of a potential customer, As the Tesla charger has meant in the United States. But, also because it offers support and security to the customer. You may never use it very counted throughout the useful life of the vehicle. What happens with these extremely powerful chargers is the same that happens with the Autonomies of 1,000 kilometers In an electric car (exist or not). In practice they are not necessary but help strengthen the security of those who adopt the new technology because blur your barriers With what it is to drive a combustion car. In spite of everything, one thing must be very clear. Until now, what is presented by ByD is an advance for China with two very specific models, it is not something that will reach Europe … Read more

In 2007, Better Place said to recharge an electric car in five minutes. This is the story of a loud failure

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Nio and Catl have reached an agreement to implement the largest battery exchange network in the world. “The most extensive and advanced,” Catl announced in a statement collected by The avant -garde. The project comes from afar. In 2020Nio already presumed that he could change the battery of his electric cars in three minutes. Since then, we had not known the project beyond In 2022 The electric cars company made noise with this issue. By then, the competition seemed served. The Geely Group, also Chinese, assured that In 2025 5,000 stations would have deployed of battery exchange. But, again, little has been known again on the matter. Until Catl has decided to trust the child project, investing 314 million euros in its battery exchange system. But although they explain that they aspire to have the “most extensive” network, the truth is that no stations numbers data have been provided. However, Nio and Catl’s proposal is not alone. In China, other companies have also tried to standardize this system and Bloomberg He calculated in 2022 that for this year some 26,000 battery exchange stations in the Asian country would have available. It is clear that there is some interest in China in keep investing in the system and technology. However, everything indicates that if there are certain recharge times of byd and are economically viable their stations, A 400 km load in five minutes You can kill the concept. If so, the system would go to a better life. A system that has already been touched almost 20 years ago and that failed irremediably when, ironically, more fault. A little context with a battalion When a person tells me that an electric car does not serve to travel and, above all, he tells me that they will not be in a long time, I usually tell an experience. At the end of 2019 I participated a project to join all the provincial capitals of the Iberian Peninsula by electric car. It was about demonstrating that the network had advanced and that the second generation of Nissan Leaf was a much more capable car. Turning among colleagues, it was late as little as possible. We get it yes, but it is also true that the challenge took us Almost seven days Although we stopped just and necessary to recharge the car. We ate as the car was loaded and slept while the car drank from the plugs. I remember calling a gas station to ask please open a plug even though we arrived after the service station had closed. We had no choice. For Todo Teruel there was only one public charger available. That charger had to open with a key the employees of the gas station. They asked us that at the end we would leave the hidden key. Once the load was finished, Nissan’s electric should have almost 400 kilometers available on a 62 kWh battery. The truth is that we stopped every 200-250 km to take advantage of the fastest part of the recharge unless we would like to sleep in the middle of the trip. Today, in Teruel and its surroundings, there are More than 25 public plugs available according to Electromaps. A few kilometers from the city, next to the highway, one carries 100 kW. Two other closest plugs can load a maximum of 350 kW if your car admits it. That Nissan Leaf, tells us Km77it would have taken 90 minutes to go from 0 to 80% of the battery charge. Today, most cars with 60-70 kWh battery capacity would recover the load up to 80% in about 20 minutes. I count all this battalion because, believe me, if I had had a Better Place battery exchange station on hand, I would have used it. Too bad that when we got into that jaleo, the project had been dead for six years. In just over a five years, the electric car market in Spain has changed completely. And although the recharge network You have to keep improvingright now it is easy to travel to any point in the country if the car has more than 60 kWh battery capacity. The minimum required to travel if we are going to make the recommended stops every two hours or 200 kilometers. What happened to Better Place? We explained all this because it is important to know the context. Having an electric car and traveling with him makes just over a five years ago was a real headache. Now, imagine that you are in 2007 and someone has said that those cars that barely do 200 kilometers in the best case and take a whole night to load are the future. What would you think? You have to look for ways to reduce loading times. And that same idea had Shai Agassi. This Israeli businessman saw that there was a business road. The electric car began to make its way but without recharge points and with times of the same too extensive, the project was unfeasible. He decided that he would create something as simple and as groundbreaking as a battery exchange station. The theory was perfect on paper: you arrive with your car and you don’t have to worry about standing for hours. In a few minutes the car would be ready to travel another 150-200 kilometers. In practice, the car was something like taking it to a wash tunnel. You entered the station after saving a barrier. Inside, The machine extracted the car battery and “sealed” it with another already loaded. An auxiliary space was needed to recharge the batteries that were interspersed. The proposal received immediate support. Different investors came to put 650 million euros in total. In 2013 the company declared bankruptcy after raising just over five million euros. Along the way, yes, I had attracted Renault’s interest. The French company adapted its Renault Fluence to function as an electric car. He put the surname ZE and the car was compatible with the battery … Read more

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