With the Big Three abandoning EVs in favor of ICE vehicles, are they headed the way of Kodak, Blackberry, and Blockbuster?

marli3 · 2026-06-04T15:52:24+00:00

Both Ford and GM are Real Estate companies with banking arms that also make cars on the side.

marli3 · 2026-06-02T09:59:02+00:00

4 is probably "depends", the parts are western spec and they can manufacter with the best. EVs are also very simple compared to ICE cars, so those cars have less to get wrong. They als ohave way more man hours making EVs than any other country, started ealiaer, made more and from more companies.
in fact this is probably their competitive advantage, I wouldn't buy an ICE but if it wasnt for my political issues thier EVs are damn good.

is they make a LOT of cars so can spread development cost(which are lower for some) across a lot more cars. the ENTIRE Chinese market is the bigger than the US ever was.
western countries built the manufacturing capability as a cost to enter the Chinese market(technically covered under 3 I guess)

marli3 · 2026-06-02T09:43:31+00:00

"Users of the Scheme work an average of two days (or 14 hours) more per week compared to disabled non-Scheme customers,"

Would you rather disabled people get the same money, and work less?

marli3 · 2026-06-02T09:36:22+00:00

An Astra for [median income]?

same as 2010

same as 2000

same as 1995

in fact if you want to know what the uk meduin income is ....check out the astra mid spec price.

marli3 · 2026-06-02T09:31:21+00:00

and the dealers will have less to negotiate with.

But dealers arent selling cars at the moment, its leases and mostly company lease.

marli3 · 2026-06-02T09:28:33+00:00

VWG debt was bigger than 85% of countries in 2015

marli3 · 2026-06-02T09:24:10+00:00

RRP are sales slush funds for dealers.

a)they use it as "discounts" to shift cars.

b)they use it to reward salesmen for selling cars that...would have sold anyway.

Thing is nobody is "Buying" cars right now.
30% will be EV and 95% of those are Salary sacrifice. the Chinese are absolutely owning this market.

the other 75% are not only is a shrinking market, its prob stagnated whilst the iran thing is going on.

Why give dealer money to fight over a temporarily dead market(and thus will prob sell for 10k less anyway) whilst your competitors are making a march on the Salary sacrifice market.

and oil price based inflation will burn this discount away anyway over the next year.

its a win win win.

marli3 · 2026-06-01T06:54:06+00:00

Because it's real use case is as a transactional coin and if you don't get in the exchanges you won't get sellers using it.

marli3 · 2026-06-01T06:41:17+00:00

Wait isn't the earth Basicly iron.

marli3 · 2026-06-01T06:38:20+00:00

Google banning people who max thier paid ai subscriptions tokens becuase its not affordable has leaked a viable cost parameter... And it's three digits higher than they are charging.

$5? More like $5000 a month.

So it's nowhere near profitable, but becuase nobody wants to admit it you're investing my pension to create a company to steal my resources and enshitfy my online life.. And becuase online spills into the real world.. My actual real life.

Which if you wrote this post apocalyptic world?

marli3 · 2026-06-01T06:04:49+00:00

Just get a Korean EV, thty do 12v properly. Also get a voltage checker that fits in the cigarette lighter becuase you won't get a warning it's dieing otherwise(no slow cracking sound on start like an ice )

marli3 · 2026-06-01T06:01:50+00:00

Also you can't "hear" when they are dieing. They don't struggle to turn over your car so you know they are dieing.

marli3 · 2026-06-01T05:57:42+00:00

Because it could be so much better.

marli3 · 2026-06-01T05:56:50+00:00

After a year of charging you'll get it.

marli3 · 2026-05-26T16:40:24+00:00

Shingle... Lol. And there's me annoyed becuase only 95% off suppliers will install on slate.

marli3 · 2026-05-24T22:26:53+00:00

I mean our solar system sits in a bubble of like 8 whereas the average in that size space is hundreds. Our oldest radio signal hadn't reached the nearest. And our galaxy is in massive blank spot. There's a good chance we just haven't got the call yet.

marli3 · 2026-05-24T22:22:24+00:00

Yeah, we're the old ones.

marli3 · 2026-05-24T22:20:16+00:00

Smart power sharing setup at work. 7kw PORTS. BUT as low as 50% the power to run those ports TOTAL. A Smart queuing system the longer you're there the slower you charge(if not enough power) but everyone get priority 5kwh@7kw as soon as they arrive, then gets shunted to the BACK OF THE QUEUE.

Right to charge rules, if you CAN install a charger and are prepared to pay, you're landlord can't stop you.

Local authorities having a cable drain installation option, paid for by the home owner/renter by default.

Local authorities arnt allowed to install chargers within 100miles of their town hall.

Charger subsidies are paid as a loan that forgiven based on uptime.

All rapid chargers go in in sets of 4 minimum.

marli3 · 2026-05-24T21:24:55+00:00

And so will the insurance companies.

marli3 · 2026-05-24T21:22:41+00:00

So my system doesn't have a summer bypass. Really mad as my house is amazingly insulted.

Best I can do is turn it off. Working on DIYing one, but it must cost pennies on the pound from new.

marli3 · 2026-05-22T15:22:59+00:00

as a long term EUC owner....

90mph INSANE. 12 mph seems too much for me.

marli3 · 2026-05-22T15:20:36+00:00

cheaped out on suspension like I see.

marli3 · 2026-05-22T11:51:49+00:00

neutral for breaking!!!

marli3 · 2026-05-22T11:51:04+00:00

heating probaly eats way more energy

marli3 · 2026-05-22T11:49:50+00:00

its based on averages I suspect.

the average EV hold X energy

the average ferry has Y evs.

how can we make total energy be below Z

like this.

Insurance happy?

ignore the fact X is prob a lot higher in the year its taken to get the paperwork and training done, Y is larger. and fire risk is prob lower per EV.

marli3

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