nxdefiant

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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

better: power distribution unit.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

It's like worrying about the emergency overflow drain on the AC that's been dripping for a year when the entire system needs an overhaul, but sure, that would at least fix a problem.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Eh, 4 actual whole years + like 3 days.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

An absolute fuckload aren't.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

Just ride it out in Bozeman, Montana and hope for the best.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you might be the only person who added weapons. That's incredible, if this was reddit, cancer ray would have been post 3 or 4, max.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

Salad bars would be a lot less common.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

KIA sold 15,000 EV's in 2023. Tesla sold 1.8 million. That's about 0.8% of their lunch. I think the publicity is appropriately sized.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago

They were first because no one else tried. It's that simple. Companies have been dicking around for decades with the hybrids, electric assist, alternate fuels, etc., and no one went whole hog before Tesla. Then* every auto maker on the planet started rushing to catch up.

Even if you discount Tesla's early lead and fast forward to 2017 when the Model 3 went on sale and GM was offering what appeared to be real competition in the Bolt, by 2021 Tesla has sold over a million 3's to GM's 100,000. And then GM had to recall all the bolts it had ever sold because they kept catching fire.

2019 is the same story with the Ford Mustang EV. Pretty decent, no real problems (other than their glass roof flying off sometimes...) but the model Y out sells it by hundreds of thousands, even beating Toyota one year for most sold globally. It's the second best selling EV SUV behind the model Y. Ford sold something like 10K of them in Q3 2023. Tesla sold over 400,000 Model Y's and 3's that same quarter.

The other car companies in the US at least just aren't putting in the effort to match those numbers. They don't want to put their money on the line.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty much. The only real difference between plumbing and the internet is everything but the pipes.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sucks, but regardless of the how's and whys, here's to a brand new start on the next five 🍻. May the future bring you what you need, and the wisdom to recognize it when it gets here.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Such utter disrespect.

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