performance cars are doing all sorts of perfomancy things with hybrids too, the instant torque is pretty nice
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 13:05 (eight months ago) link
very silly
Wow I did not realize that leased EVs got tax credits regardless of import content/assembly location and thus leasing EVs has exploded. https://t.co/Ic0J7uBQTp— Nathan Tankus (@NathanTankus) August 15, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 17:47 (eight months ago) link
Does this maybe undercut aforementioned dweeboid's 'Americans aren't buying EVs' thesis
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 18:21 (eight months ago) link
i dont think so cause he was just looking average time sitting on car lots per vehicle so it doesnt matter if its a sale or a lease just as long as the car drives away
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 18:44 (eight months ago) link
I'm always wary of "time sitting on car lots" counts when the #1 EV seller in the US uses direct sales without traditional dealerships. I haven't seen an exact breakdown, but anecdotally it seems EV buyers are going to a dealership to test drive one first and then custom ordering via the internet rather than paying an outrageous markup on dealership inventory.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 06:28 (eight months ago) link
yeah tesla not being part of the stats does make them less thorough and ordering your very own car has def become a bigger thing but the fact remains theres a lot of evs sitting around waiting for buyers
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 11:17 (eight months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 11:24 (eight months ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 August 2023 12:05 (eight months ago) link
aw its not that bad just a lil guy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 August 2023 12:31 (eight months ago) link
meep meep
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:04 (eight months ago) link
need to raise the hood up and make the front flat and give it a headlight config that looks like angry eyes, obv
― circles, Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:11 (eight months ago) link
vw id3 costs half as much in china as america, prob not exactly the same car but still
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:22 (eight months ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:20 (eight months ago) link
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.
― pplains, Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:29 (eight months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 16:36 (eight months ago) link
pretty bad infotainment sitch goin on there
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 16:45 (eight months ago) link
doug is a screen connoisseur tbf
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 16:51 (eight months ago) link
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/volkswagen-id-gti-electric
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:32 (seven months ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 01:37 (seven months ago) link
thats what im talkin about
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 01:43 (seven months ago) link
replace cars trips with ebike rides
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 01:51 (seven months ago) link
reminds me of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 01:59 (seven months ago) link
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
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 01:59 (seven months ago) link
imagine if we had infrastructure for these small e vehicles like we do for cars
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 02:03 (seven months ago) link
Now if we could make generic/open-source e-bike designs, parts, etc to drive the prices down...
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 07:04 (seven months ago) link
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.
― koogs, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 08:35 (seven months ago) link
My son's school bus is now electric. So much for 11 years of knowing when the bus is coming by sound.
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 11:53 (seven months ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 22 September 2023 17:41 (seven months ago) link
lol thats a funny lil car
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 September 2023 17:42 (seven months ago) link
savage geese go wild for lucid, first car guy ev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emkj_fOBovY
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 September 2023 22:47 (seven months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 September 2023 23:32 (seven months ago) link
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.htmlhttps://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-reports-fall-third-quarter-deliveries-misses-estimates-2023-10-02/
― 龜, Monday, 9 October 2023 15:38 (six months ago) link
feel like the usa might be maxing out its current ev market
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 October 2023 15:51 (six months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 October 2023 15:52 (six months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 October 2023 15:55 (six months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 October 2023 15:57 (six months ago) link
cybertruck will definitely reverse this trend
― 龜, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:26 (six months ago) link
i still dont understand how the cybertruck is supposed to meet auto safety standards, all those sharp corners, do they crumple etc
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:31 (six months ago) link
safety standards are a symptom of the woke mind virus, wake up sheeple
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:34 (six months ago) link
the word “planned” possibly an overstatement
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:35 (six months ago) link
anyone walking in front of one of those is gonna end up planed
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:37 (six months ago) link
safety standards long since stopped being about peds, they are about protecting car occupants from other cars
― 龜, Monday, 9 October 2023 17:26 (six months ago) link
people luuuv the fake gearshifts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N81QvAJRkI
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 21:39 (six months ago) link
my gas car has fake gear shifts, it has a cvt that is programmed to pretend to shift periodically, very silly
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 21:56 (six months ago) link
lol what
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 21:59 (six months ago) link
im sorry you had to find out about this
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 21:59 (six months ago) link
madness
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 22:00 (six months ago) link
even more ridiculous, it has paddle shifters, on a subaru outback, with a cvt, lmao
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 22:01 (six months ago) link
TS: fake shifting vs. fake interior engine noise
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 22:04 (six months ago) link
YOU DON'T NEED ALL THAT SHIT.
― pplains, Thursday, 12 October 2023 15:13 (six months ago) link