• elouboub@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Lol, a car industry that hasn’t innovated in years is suddenly threatened by innovation. Still, fuck cars. We should make them nigh obsolete with better public transport.

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    1 year ago

    They have an electric suv under $20k usd

    Sure, it’s probably gonna last like a mid-90’s Kia, but for the price it’s pretty nice.

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        1 year ago

        I think it’s debatable. Is it really good if all the energy that went into making the vehicle goes to waste because it only lasts 50k miles? At that point you’re basically building disposable vehicles.

        I think the sweet spot for this period is in hybrids that allow people to run on electricity around town but also have the ICE as a fallback for long/extended trips. The main hesitancy with EVs is range anxiety (ignoring high prices) and hybrids solve that issue while still retaining a lot of the benefits of an EV.

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          The problem with that is that phevs are surprising expensive/heavy/complicated. It’s why Chevy discontinued the volt over the bolt. And why chevy had to cut a lot of costs on the volt to get it down to a semi-acceptable price (the volt didn’t even have power seats except on the Premier, and only on the drivers side).

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            Honestly, I prefer not to have power seats. It’s faster to adjust manual seats in my experience and there’s both fewer things to break and less weight.

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              1 year ago

              I’ve found I can never get a manual seat just right myself, they’re either slightly too far forward, or slightly too far back.

              Electric let’s you get it just right

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      1 year ago

      Government trying to steer a herd of impulsive and selfish citizens into doing what makes sense for the collective (or what they believe makes sense (or what they’re trying to convince us they believe makes sense))

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        11 months ago

        deeper nested brackets Or what the car lobby tells them they should try to convince they believe makes sense

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              11 months ago

              I think ruining things is just their whole identity, but tbh, of all the things they’ve ruined, triple brackets is pretty low on the list.

              RIP to all your apparent Internet communications that people have taken as weirdly out of place anti-semitism though