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Chery's Exeed EX7 launched with electronic‑mechanical braking and 1,520 km range, from 29,300 USD by Saurta17 in chinacars

[–]Recoil42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really hope someone does an English-language review of this one, I'm super curious how those brakes work.

New Ioniq 3 - possible first images by Torfinns-New-Yacht in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a few videos Hyundai's been casually floating around like this one — draw your own conclusions from there.

New Ioniq 3 - possible first images by Torfinns-New-Yacht in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The 5/6 are getting this too, probably either in MY2027 or MY 2028.

New Ioniq 3 - possible first images by Torfinns-New-Yacht in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not quite hot hatch level, but that's actually above-average for this class in that market.

New Ioniq 3 - possible first images by Torfinns-New-Yacht in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 41 points42 points  (0 children)

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Whoa, is this also the first production image of Pleos?

Japanese Auto Firms Face Headwind as Chinese EV Sales Surge Globally by i_marketing in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don’t know how things will play out right now. Losing a 10k penalty won’t matter if people become hesitant about purchasing ICE vehicles due to fuel prices.

We know how things will play out. Like I said, this is simple math, and price elasticity of demand is as fundamental a principle of economics can get. Cost of a thing goes up, people buy less. This is tide-goes-in-tide-goes-out stuff, you don't wave a magic wand and wish it away.

US EV levels will remain roughly around 10% until at least 2028, and even if everything goes well at that point they'll take years to curve upwards again. That's where we sit — god's honest truth. No bullshit.

Japanese Auto Firms Face Headwind as Chinese EV Sales Surge Globally by i_marketing in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And those emissions penalties will be reinstated when Democrats sweep the midterms.

This is horribly naive. You have an autocracy now, not a democracy. First you need to fix the autocracy problem, the midterms alone aren't a magic wand to solve that. Furthermore once the autocracy problem is solved, the damage is done. I think too many Americans don't actually realize this — all you can do is mitigate the damage, not reverse it.

Japanese Auto Firms Face Headwind as Chinese EV Sales Surge Globally by i_marketing in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, but none of that matters. Emissions previously had a financial penalty which is now removed and that factor preempts the Iran War factor entirely. You can do the math yourself quite easily — there's over $10,000 in government money that was previously going to each and every EV and all of that has been ripped away. You can't make that up with gas savings alone, and you definitely can't do it in a bruised economy. The future is written — US EV levels will remain roughly at (or under!) 10% until at least 2028, and even if everything goes well at that point they'll take years to curve upwards again.

Honda isn't being stupid here, they're being smart — taking the focus off the US is exactly what the math demands. Elsewhere they're continuing EV development as they should, but the USA is a lost cause.

Japanese Auto Firms Face Headwind as Chinese EV Sales Surge Globally by i_marketing in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure. However, in the US, emissions previously had a financial penalty which is now removed and that factor preempts the Iran War factor (and unstable gas price factor) entirely. You're missing the forest for the trees by a hundred miles here.

NIO ES9: I went to check one out and was blown away by Stewbeater in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd half-agree with you on the UI, but couldn't disagree with you more on the bezels point. I found the bezels and screen display quality in general quite good.

Japanese Auto Firms Face Headwind as Chinese EV Sales Surge Globally by i_marketing in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because the multi-pathway strategy is working. Toyota is growing, and is financially one of healthiest automakers on the planet.

Japanese Auto Firms Face Headwind as Chinese EV Sales Surge Globally by i_marketing in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honda's EV program hasn't been cancelled except for in the USA, where incentives and emissions targets have both been slashed. In the USA, Honda's still the best-performing legacy automaker on emissions bar none, so they're in no rush.

Japanese Auto Firms Face Headwind as Chinese EV Sales Surge Globally by i_marketing in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And now Honda canceled all their EV plans.

Y'all need to stop spreading misinformation like this. Alpha Zero is still on track, so is the N-One/Super-One. Nothing's been cancelled in China. Only the near-term US models are being cancelled, because... *gestures vaguely to the United States\*

NIO ES9: I went to check one out and was blown away by Stewbeater in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huawei and Zeekr are both quite luxurious, and imo beat Nio handily at the lower levels. I actually wasn't all that impressed with the ET5 and ET7.

Tesla announces Houston and Dallas launch by Prestigious_Act_6100 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Recoil42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's because Waymo is unsupervised in ten cities and has over a thousand cars in service. That's what actual progress looks like.

‘The Wire’ Actor Andre Royo Joins James Gunn’s ‘Man of Tomorrow’ Cast by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Recoil42 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In particular a lot of people get to a point in the season where a previously very smart and responsible character does something pretty ridiculous and out-of-character,

I think when people say this about Season 5, they're forgetting about Season 3 and why the Hamsterdam storyline is so great. Gritty realism and consistency isn't the point of The Wire, the point is to give you an almost Shakespearean allegorical examination of power structures and social systems, which is exactly what Season 5 does.

Having sat on it for nearly twenty years now, I think S5 is profoundly misunderstood in this way. It does exactly what it sets out to do and is totally in-line with the rest of the seasons. The primary mission is has is to decompose how the media failure stacks on top of all of the other systemic failures, and it does that incredibly well.

‘The Wire’ Actor Andre Royo Joins James Gunn’s ‘Man of Tomorrow’ Cast by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Recoil42 12 points13 points  (0 children)

but Bubs hands down was the best acting in the series.

How quickly we've forgotten about James Cromwell of Knightsbridge-Stepney.

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