why don’t you drive an EV?

lot of price cuts too, telsa leading the pack, used ev prices dropping like crazy, if i were in the market i might consider looking at a used polestar look at this 2001 model 2 with 15k miles for $32k, that car starts at $50k new https://www.carfax.com/vehicle/LPSED3KA4ML022288

Here's an EV from GM for £13K

https://www.just-auto.com/news/general-motors-jv-launches-baojun-cloud-ev/

only available in China unfortch

also possibly the ugliest car i've ever seen

aw its not that bad just a lil guy

meep meep

need to raise the hood up and make the front flat and give it a headlight config that looks like angry eyes, obv

vw id3 costs half as much in china as america, prob not exactly the same car but still

took me a while to realise that the thing that looks odd about electric cars is the lack of a front grill - don't need a radiator so don't need a grill. but designers haven't fully embraced this yet so they are still the same general shape.

Yeah, that took me a second too.

Tesla in front of us the other day just tooooookk ooffffffff down the freeway. I also always forget, oh yeah, they can do that.

re our discussion of ev sedans and the ioniq 5 i guess the ioniq 6 is basically the same car except its a sedan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGqkbUnqLk

pretty bad infotainment sitch goin on there

doug is a screen connoisseur tbf

https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/volkswagen-id-gti-electric

Wild stat from that report— there are now nearly 300 million electric motorcycles/scooters/2-3 wheelers on the road worldwide and they are displacing four times as much oil demand as all the electric cars in the world so far. https://t.co/3Ox0K6w7rQ

— brad plumer (@bradplumer) September 10, 2023

thats what im talkin about

replace cars trips with ebike rides

reminds me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

i’ve seen it claimed the opposite (that less than 4 wheeled electric vehicles displace walking and public transit, not gas car rides) but i am biased and will take it

imagine if we had infrastructure for these small e vehicles like we do for cars

Now if we could make generic/open-source e-bike designs, parts, etc to drive the prices down...

i noticed the local police motorbikes are now electric - one went past me yesterday and all i could hear was the chain drive, no motor noise.

My son's school bus is now electric. So much for 11 years of knowing when the bus is coming by sound.

Spotted! In the wild! pic.twitter.com/X1aVeRFDPR

— Streetsblog New York (@StreetsblogNYC) May 25, 2023

https://www.inverse.com/input/tech/ups-testing-electric-cargo-bikes-sustainable-nyc

lol thats a funny lil car

savage geese go wild for lucid, first car guy ev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emkj_fOBovY

car guys have been worried about evs are they just not fun a bunch of effectively identical appliances, maybe you just needed some car guys to make one

tesla cut prices again + blamed missing Q3 delivery estimates because of 'factory downtime' for upgrades

i dunno sounds like to me people aren't buying teslas

https://www.engadget.com/tesla-cuts-prices-on-model-3-and-y-after-dwindling-deliveries-200844132.html
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-reports-fall-third-quarter-deliveries-misses-estimates-2023-10-02/

feel like the usa might be maxing out its current ev market

tho obvs thatll grow as people get more comfortable with evs and new tech comes online and ultimately new regs force people to buy evs

who knows how tesla will hold up tho, they dont seem to be doing good with keeping their fleet up to date, seemingly been putting most of their energy towards increasing manufacturing capacity, and now looking oversupplied

Deliveries of the updated and higher-priced Model 3 compact sedan are expected to start in the fourth quarter, while a Cybertruck launch event is also planned later this year.

oh a cybertruck launch event ok

cybertruck will definitely reverse this trend

i still dont understand how the cybertruck is supposed to meet auto safety standards, all those sharp corners, do they crumple etc

safety standards are a symptom of the woke mind virus, wake up sheeple

the word “planned” possibly an overstatement

anyone walking in front of one of those is gonna end up planed

safety standards long since stopped being about peds, they are about protecting car occupants from other cars

people luuuv the fake gearshifts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N81QvAJRkI

my gas car has fake gear shifts, it has a cvt that is programmed to pretend to shift periodically, very silly

lol what

im sorry you had to find out about this

madness

even more ridiculous, it has paddle shifters, on a subaru outback, with a cvt, lmao

TS: fake shifting vs. fake interior engine noise

YOU DON'T NEED ALL THAT SHIT.

Can I have a new iMac that plays the whole dial-up modem sequence whenever I log on, thank yo.

what about a car with a dual clutch thats too good it shifts so quickly and accurately that you barely notice its happening so the manufacturer programs it to shift more dramatically the levels of which you can control through the cars infotainment system, just an idea i had not sure if it exists probably does tho

i’ve never wanted any form of self driving but there may not be much of a choice soon.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/29/uk-drivers-make-claims-of-incredibly-scary-malfunctions-with-electric-cars

How a robotaxi crash got Cruise’s self-driving cars pulled from Californian roads

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/28/robotaxi-cruise-crash-driverless-car-san-francisco/

im not against self driving as an idea, it could make the roads safer and prob some self driving ish features already have, but! these car companies are straight up beta testing this shit on us

I can't even handle being in my friend's Tesla when it treats a bus lane like the edge of a cliff