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
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 October 2023 15:19 (six months ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 29 October 2023 16:28 (six months ago) link
How a robotaxi crash got Cruise’s self-driving cars pulled from Californian roadshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/28/robotaxi-cruise-crash-driverless-car-san-francisco/
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 October 2023 23:54 (six months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 October 2023 00:14 (six months ago) link
I can't even handle being in my friend's Tesla when it treats a bus lane like the edge of a cliff
― kinder, Monday, 30 October 2023 16:24 (six months ago) link
https://www.citroen.co.uk/ami
this is apparently a real thing
― koogs, Thursday, 9 November 2023 12:28 (five months ago) link
I’ve seen one! Not technically a car but they’re pretty popular in France. No speakers or radio in them at all
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 November 2023 13:05 (five months ago) link
doors open in opposite directions. in fact, apart from the spoiler on the back of the roof it looks rotationally symmetrical (cuts down on costs having to make only one type of door...)
― koogs, Thursday, 9 November 2023 13:15 (five months ago) link
lol thats insane
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 November 2023 13:17 (five months ago) link
citroen giving it a good go with their cheap models. here’s a real car, for around £25khttps://www.citroen.co.uk/models/new-e-c3.htmlthere are going to be vauxhall and opel models based on the e c-3 as well
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 November 2023 13:44 (five months ago) link
Guess the EU doesn't have regs against suicide doors?
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 9 November 2023 14:49 (five months ago) link
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/toyota-hilux-revo-ev-tacoma-americahttps://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-hilux-revo-bev-concept-first-look/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:02 (five months ago) link
looks p sweet
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:25 (five months ago) link
complaining about not being able to get a small pickup has really swept the nation, i support it but its kind of a left field mania, and tbf im more of a complaining about not being able to get wagons guy but still solidarity with the small truck guys
fwiw it does seem like the maverick is proof of concept not only for small pickups but for more utilitarian pickups, tho tbf you can get a utilitarian full size one have you ever seen a base model f150 a classic fleet vehilce oof that is one shitty car, lots of talk that there will be competitors to the maverick soon, hyundai santa cruz could be considered such tho it doesnt really have the utilitarian aspect
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 November 2023 16:21 (five months ago) link
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/are-ev-sales-really-slowing-data
Not entirely unrelated, one of our best friends just replaced their family car with an EV (Kia), and even though they like the car, they've had to deal with a few headaches already. For example, it turns out the casing for the power line that was running from their house to the garage was inexplicably aluminum and corroded, so they had to get a new dedicated power line to the garage in order to adequately charge the car ($$$). Second, with the holidays coming up and family in St. Louis, they have to plan for their first EV road trip, and it's proving more challenging than they expected, especially with temps (and range) dropping. I'm curious what they decide, but I do know they pretty quickly went from being a two ICE family to a family that wanted to have two EVs to a family that wouldn't be comfortable without an ICE to supplement the EV.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:56 (five months ago) link
I drive an EV now, I thought I'd drive both our new EV and our old ICE but the ICE basically just sits there most of the time, long roadtrips in the Midwest have been no challenge at all, to my surprise. The one thing I'd say is that I don't think we're saving money -- the increase in our electric bill is certainly more than we were spending on gas. But if the goal were to save money I wouldn't have bought an expensive new car!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 14:55 (five months ago) link
isnt the fuel cost supposed to be fractional, wonder if you have some sort of leak
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 16:45 (five months ago) link
an electricity leak??
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:11 (five months ago) link
yeah, not like a puddle of electricity under your car but some sort of malfunction
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:15 (five months ago) link
Feel like I'd have noticed if it was just gradually losing charge without being driven
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:16 (five months ago) link
could be in the charger
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:17 (five months ago) link
Oh, like the charger could be drawing electricity all the time even when it's not charging the car? Hmm, interesting. I have no idea how I'd check for that.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:25 (five months ago) link