Canadian electric vehicle maker Daymak has announced that Spiritus, the company's futuristic car that has not yet been launched, will be able to mine Bitcoin and Dogecoin while parked.
The 20-year-old also says it accepts pre-order payments in several cryptocurrencies, including Cardano. The investment financing campaign for this car, which started in March, was more than $ 350 million.
The cryptocurrency infrastructure awaiting Daymak registration will be integrated into the car's user interface.
The Daymak Spiritus, which has many features, in addition to being the first electric car to add cryptocurrency mining, also aims to become the world's fastest tricycle. Its first delivery is expected to begin in 2023.
Daymak co-founder Aldo Baiocchi says his company envisions a future secured by cryptography:
"We envision a future where your highway tolls, your parking, and your drive-thru order will be paid directly on the fly with crypto. Your online bills and your banking can be handled through the same software platform paid in crypto."
According to U. Today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently shown interest in recycling the heat generated by extracting cryptocurrencies.
Last month, leading electronics maker Tesla suspended Bitcoin payments due to environmental concerns and met with public outcry.
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https://u.today/tesla-competitor-to-launch-first-electric-car-that-mines-bitcoin-and-dogecoinThe premise here is electricity is free. Sound's Italian, let's see already 0.30 $-KHW (europe), after resell to the 'charging-station' it will be $1-kwh, or more. Now Canada has cheap electricity, but not everywhere, but they already have plugs in the parking lots to keep you engine warm in the winter, so running a miner while parked, is not a new idea in Alaska, or Canada, or anywhere freezing cold in the winter. Hell the bitmain miner is a heater for the interior, besides being used to commercially 'dry' cannabis in Canada.
There's a guy already doing this, has a whole rig (6+) RTX-3090's in his trunk, over a year ago, you can google / youtube it, I think this is a very old idea, probably as old as btc, given that you have to plug the bitch in when your not using it, I guess why not suck more power, can you imagine, say running a S19 (80THS) bitmain miner for BTC at 3,000-KWH, what the actual 'fueling' charge would be if you fact sucked the power to 'mine' btc, you know they charge more for power, cuz they can, and its how they make money, by reseller power as charging, via your credit card.
As always these types of articles say 'bitcoin' but by that they mean crypto, and most likely its a single toy GPU mining ETH
Hell it would take a diesel generator to do 3,000KWH like you see on portable welding-trucks.