This is one person buying for two, but that’s perhaps two meals a day, at over $50 for both.

Beats me.

It’s an eye-watering amount of money, they must have been getting every single meal delivered to spend that much.

Yup, this sounds like a genuine case of the partner refusing to repay a loan.

Also, what a deadbeat.

The “it’s all about me” attitude, mostly. Focusing on money and material goods is kinda the point in much of that genre.

My first guess was Swift, but the attitude makes me think hip-hop.

Could have been. Such strange actions though.

Pretty apt comparison actually.

There’s been a handful of small passenger ones built in a number of countries, including some aircraft converted into ground effect planes. Germany has built a few, and Iran apparently uses them to some degree.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Lifter

And then there’s this monster.

A sea plane or float plane would be a much simpler, safer option, in my view.

I don’t know if they split the pack, or just have multiple chargers working side by side. I know Tesla have done similar when testing the Semi, just use multiple chargers at once.

The vehicle being charged already tells the charger what to do anyway.

Sea water is a nightmare for anything mechanical, in my experience, but electronics can at least be sealed effectively. Usually.

The biggest reason I’m so sceptical about this, is every other use case I’ve seen for electric vehicles or vessels has been something that’s already a proven concept. Cars, trucks, planes, harbour ferries, they are all a proven concept, we’re just moving to a different fuel.

Ground effect planes, on the other hand, have never been proven with any fuel type.

They’re operating from the CBD, so getting power to a charging station is relatively straightforward, and there are technologies available to recharge a vehicle quite fast, there is a standard being developed for trucks that will be over a megawatt of charging capacity. The east by West electric boat uses two chargers, from my understanding.

The Soviets also crashed one of their ground effect planes, killing all the crew. I understand they were also very costly to operate.

Kinda, although an aircraft that operates exclusively in ground effect is explicitly not an aircraft as far as CAA is concerned, so they’re outside their rules.

As far as recharge time is concerned, I assume they would be able to fast charge in half an hour or so, like any other electric vehicle.

Except this was malicious.

I really hope Labour get their shit together before the next election.

Just amazing that this had to be said actually. I think Seymour just needs to accept that NZ isn’t behind him on this.

It’s definitely a very poor way to present the data.

As per the other comment, it sounds like the data is being presented in a very counter-intuitive way.

Right, so it’s not 40% attendance, it’s 40% failed to meet 90% attendance.

Very confusing.