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Samsung’s 20-year-life EV battery runs 600 miles on 9-minute charge (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 4 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Awesome.

My parents like their Speed Queen, so I'll have to see if my wife would be cool with that. I like that there are very few electronics, just dials and buttons, so there's a lot less to go wrong. I'll have to see if there's a decent commercial dealer in my area.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I also found Yale Appliance's reliability discussions on various appliance categories to be helpful (although they seem to like LG in both categories of washers):

https://blog.yaleappliance.com/most-reliable-front-load-washers

https://blog.yaleappliance.com/most-reliable-top-load-washers

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Eh, they only look at the first year of service, and honestly, that's not particularly interesting. I'm more interested in what happens after 5 years, since that's about half the expected life of the average consumer-grade washing machine.

I honestly don't have a problem with LG, the only issues I've had are with the circuit board, and it's been two separate issues (the first seemed like a short, the second was a sticking relay) spaced about 5 years apart (I've owned it almost 10 years now). So the rest of the components seem fine (pump, motors, screen, etc). And honestly, the current failure I have is inconsistent, so it'll probably last a few months before I absolutely need to fix or replace it. I like this YouTuber's reviews, and his recommendations are:

top load with agitator - SpeedQueen - they're pricey, but they usually get 20 years in a commercial setting
top load w/ impeller - LG - should last 7-10 years, do a good job on saving water and electricity
front-load - SpeedQueen (but they're really pricey) or LG (7-10 years; maybe more)

But apparently, he says anything other than Samsung.