This guy doesn’t know how to use the three sea shells!

I guess when you have Malfoy money you can afford to go full death eater.

That’s total sales of all cars for KIA America.

better: power distribution unit.

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.

Eh, 4 actual whole years + like 3 days.

An absolute fuckload aren’t.

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

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.

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.

Usually governments regulate their markets to prevent humans from going full human and burning everything as a sacrifice to the gods of greed. This is why we have agencies that regulate food safety, engineering standards, nuclear materials and chemical disposal.

The phrase “regulations are written in blood” reminds us that a race to the bottom will result in massive problems, and that regulation is an excellent idea.

Sure, but what op described sounds like the equivalent of breaking a pool cue in half and telling the Chinese EV market there’s only room for one manufacturer on the crew.

It’s a massive waste of resources to have everyone race to the bottom like that.

Such utter disrespect.

It’s crazy that the only thing photoshopped in that picture is the size of his hands.

I’m struggling to understand how that toilet functions.

When someone tells you they’re a nazi, there’s no downside to taking them at their word.

python:

gender: Optional[str] = None

He always looks like he just realized he got stung by a bee, and he’s allergic.

All the Me clones: Sokath, his eyes opened.

pretty sure admiral Janeway gives Captain Picard orders to Romulus in Insurrection, and that sounds as something dammit.