You’re right, the BMW iX3 will probably be a huge hit. I see a lot of them around BMW facilities and they’re wonderful cars, at a reasonable price point.

That’s golden 😂

Though Oreshnik stole the show

Putin trying to cope with being shown how things are done by his Trumpy buddy? The US stole the show in Iran and in Venezuela, making Russian struggles in Ukraine even more pathetic.

Perhaps Russia will be inclined to test that next, should Zelensky or the West continue their naughty provocations.

Nice fan-fiction text and Schadenfreude, it’s really sad.

Many called for Russia to strike Kiev with the Oreshnik as part of the retaliation

This really shows how disturbed some people are.

I don’t know why I did it to myself to read this biased mess of a website, but it was entertaining in its own way.

I don’t think global order has ever really existed.

The only correct answer: EREV is marketing bs, as the Chinese NEV (New Energy Vehicles). Hybrids are the solution to no problems, just a rule appeasing patch for the reactionary car industry.

Make America Go Adrift

One thing that’s really clunky is checking the list of followers and followed accounts: depending on which instance is each account, these lists are either incomplete or empty. I don’t know if I do something wrong, but I was trying to get up to speed with Mastodon by discovering interesting accounts to follow- which is not trivial - and found the aforementioned problem. I use a third party app and various web front ends, including the “official” ones (you are forced to when you look for the list of followed/followers)

It’s really just 1 set of tires for 60K km? Or do you swap summer/winter? If the former, I’m impressed, I thought higher torque and weight would mean higher wear, even if EV tires are obviously designed accordingly.

Might be if they have summer + winter sets

You are right in pointing this out, but I doubt it would change things much: the BYD car doesn’t seem to be that extreme in terms of downforce and if, for reference, an F1 car can generate around 1500kg of downforce at 200km/h, I wouldn’t expect more than some hundred kg on the EV. At a weight of 2500kg, it is a relevant but small percentage, only in fast sections of the circuit. On the flip side, they have to lift even more because of increased drag.

And generally regarding the weight: this is exactly the point, huge power at the cost of huge weight is a big trade off, even with the undersized battery they use. That’s why power/weight ratio is the thing to look for, but in this case physical limits are the ceiling against which the BYD bumps. It is nevertheless an extremely impressive car and pretty visionary.

Engineering explained made an interesting video pointing out how useless all this theoretical power ends to be:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TynF7R7q6c8

Yes I get it and agree: they are in a position where they can bully others the way they are doing. It’s not their role but they can because they have leverage. It’s a one bullet thing, though: burning these many bridges will collapse their global presence in the long run. But for now, they act and do as they wish, because old allies still need them direly.

If it would be so easy… the hard reality is that Ukraine needs US support and Europe is not enough (due to economic challenges and internal disagreements). We are at the mercy of the government of a very rich country with a global military infrastructure that was our most important ally, but now betrayed any long standing commitment because they went crazy (+russian venom worked well with the thin witted US population)

Not at all: recalls and specific issues are usually linked to production hiccups or supply chain problems, not design. They might have some problems with the door handles (design problem) but the cars (excluding the Cybertruck aberration) don’t fare worse nor better than the industry typical rate of recalls.

I just wanted to point out that they are not utter garbage - because in fact for some feature sets they are brilliant and unmatched to this day - but for sure they are far from perfect!

For sure they have reliability issues and specific problems and recalls, I’m not unapologetically defending anyone :) they aren’t Toyota, but they improved year after year and Teslas radical approach to car design and manufacturing shook up the industry in a good way in my opinion.

I for sure don’t know a lot :) I don’t see the connection to the instance I created my account on, though.

So, the answer to my question is…?

EDIT: ooooh, ok checked your post history. Won’t waste any more second trying to get a civil exchange with you ;)

So it’s like local slang or does it have the religious connotation it suggests?

12 people were martyred in the blast

What!?

Design to be cheap is not a bad thing, the problem is when something should be quality but is subpar. Fully agree on missing buttons, but then the infotainment system is best in the industry. Internal materials are just a big piece of the puzzle: for what I know, some suspension bushings wear out pretty fast but apart from that (and ignoring the joke that is the Cybertruck) I don’t hear much about other core components being bad: battery, chargers, motors. Maybe AC and compressor have had problems, because of the - again - hunt for cost effectiveness by removing unneeded parts. But all in all, I think you are greatly exaggerating.

Well, come on, they are extremely efficient cars, with huge internal space related to size at very competitive prices. Look around at the offerings of most automakers: I see lots of garbage, but Tesla doesn’t belong there. I despise their CEO and many design choices, but they are objectively brilliant vehicles.