I am not sure that rational choices by EV drivers can be generalized to the population as a whole. Consider the “roll coal” tinky winkies.

Then you realize that you have duplicated the failure in a post fix version.

I guess they’re hoping I will get a used etron gt or taycan instead? Those start at such a high price point (especially the Porsche) that they are pretty beaten before they depreciate to a price point I would consider. Also, the utility of a Golf is better for me.

Gas prices in the US haven’t reached those in more civilized parts of the world yet. When gas is $12/gallon, the US will also want to electric vehicles (if not before).

My Gen Alpha kid refuses to learn when I offer to teach him. I am not going to force him to become technologically literate. (I’m Gen X and write software professionally). Maybe it’s my fault because my teaching style is incompatible with his learning style? He won’t accept my offers to send him to classes either.

Ford: don’t make us compete. Our products are not competitive.

This looks like it is technology that I should borrow for use in Texas. Love it.

Yeah, the protocol itself is pretty robust. The cable I had didn’t have enough noise immunity for the dirty power the building had in India (afternoon brown outs when the voltage dipped when the air conditioners ran). The Faraday cage that I made around the cable helped with the noise and also (and I believe more crucially though I had no scope to confirm) gave the two boards a common ground. I had a little trouble with before I left, but it didn’t work at all in India until I modded it. Made the hardware engineer buy me a beer when I got back.

This was a proprietary cable specific to our board design. Believe me, I wish we could have used a standard cable.

I once took a really crappy RS232 cable to India as part of some equipment to train our remote developers. The cable barely worked in our lab in the States. I told our hardware engineer that it wasn’t going to work in India, and I was right. So in India I ended up having to wrap the entire wire bundle in a wire that I soldered to ground on both sides. Soldered it together with a plumbing soldering iron. I am a software engineer, but I have an electrical engineering degree. The VP that I was traveling with couldn’t believe that the crap I made worked. Realistically, I couldn’t either.

I believe. To quote a dead asshole: prove me wrong, prove me wrong.

And in this situation, I don’t even think I originally had the burden of proof, so this isn’t even a logically fallacious argument. The bombing has definitely deemphasized Epstein in the headlines.

“God is destroying us because we treated trans people like humans.”

I wish I was exaggerating.

I imagine that is what the market will bear. The big problem is likely other cars available in that market. At least in my market, there are many EVs with lower than average mileage and this one is the opposite end of the spectrum. Also, the Ioniq 6 has polarizing styling which limits the potential buyer pool further.

A better analysis would probably be a sample of a bunch of EVs in multiple markets rather than cherry picking a particularly egregious example. I have bought two different used EVs to take advantage of the depreciation, so I don’t think the thesis is incorrect. Some of the depreciation was due to the tax credit being claimed and unavailable for the second owner.

I intend to be retired for Y2038. I have been warning my younger coworkers that 1. they’re going to have to fix it, 2. It’s going to be worse than Y2K, and 3. Managers and up are not going to take it seriously because Y2K was mostly a nothing burger (because of a lot of hard work and investment that people forget about).

My issues are not install, but uninstall. Why do I have so much crap installed? I used it on a project once 7 years ago and haven’t since. Why not uninstall it? It is useful, just not currently. It took less than a minute to install when you installed it the first time and your connection is faster now? But what if the archive goes down or it is retired or obsolete? It is small, keep it!

Turns out lots of small adds up to big.

Nothing would make me happier than a cat 7 hurricane absolutely obliterating Mar a Lago (preferably with orange ass inside because there were no storm tracks and warnings). It will probably hit some poor children in Puerto Rico instead because this timeline sucks.

Sadly, 1.5C is already cooked because the models were too conservative and flat wrong about sensitivity. When you factor in political resistance, I expect that 4C is unachievable.

As far as transitioning away from fossil fuels, we have no ready scalable substitute for the Haber Bosch process, so we’re kind of stuck. Probably should have been investing more in searching for one starting years ago, but when a substantial fraction of the population doesn’t believe there is a problem until their own personal life is impacted, you get our dumbest possible timeline.

My wife’s PHEV has reduced her gasoline purchases by 75%. Many of her trips are 100% electric. Must be some oddball users really messing up the average.

I would be really excited if they started making these in form factors that match batteries in existing cars. Drop in replacements that deliver the same voltage and amps, but with more range would be good sellers. Of course, Trump’s tariffs would probably ruin them for my market, but at least Europe and Canada could have nice things.

How can they be wrong on every single issue? It looks like deliberate evil.