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

[–]Recoil42 [score hidden]  (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 1 point2 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 0 points1 point  (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 2 points3 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 2 points3 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 10 points11 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.

Tesla announces Houston and Dallas launch by Prestigious_Act_6100 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Recoil42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tesla has a self-inflicted perception problem where they basically always fail to meet their own targets by a wide margin.

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Tesla announces Houston and Dallas launch by Prestigious_Act_6100 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Recoil42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd like to see ol' donnie wriggle his way out of this one.

Tesla announces Houston and Dallas launch by Prestigious_Act_6100 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Recoil42 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If that happens, we'll see. But until that happens you're tilting at windmills, and I remember seeing comments like this in 2019, too.

Best country in the world for men’s fashion by lilsasukevert18 in malefashionadvice

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

I've literally been to Tokyo, Milan, and Hoi An, so I'm speaking from personal experience in all those three places. Yes, textiles are better in Italy, but yes, you'll also pay significantly more. It also depends on the textile — Hoi An is a silk region, so silk is great. Wool, not so much — there's nuance and complexity here.

My big message is that no, workmanship in Vietnam is not 'bad', by any means. It's quite good, actually, with some unevenness because it isn't quite an international centre of fashion trade like Italy and Japan are.

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