I don’t care for its sportiness at all but the Ioniq 6 is a pretty solid vehicle IMHO. It’s among the most efficient EVs overall, has physical buttons, you can use Android Auto and Apple Carplay, tow a trailer etc.

Also, we first have to define more precisely what ‘being 2’ means. E.g., if we just count birthdays and one of them is born on Feb 29th in a leap year, that person ‘ages’ with 1/4 of the speed.

I use the regular KeePass 2 and love it. It looks a bit oldfashioned but is a very powerful tool once you get used to it a bit. As there are plenty of addons you can also easily extend the standard feature set with further options.

Magna was building cars for Fisker before they went bankrupt. Let’s hope for them that the new deal is more sustainable.

Personally I’d prefer the company to survive and just Musk, Trump and all the other dipshits to drown.

Tesla manufactured quite a number of vehicles already and if the company ceases to exist, a lot of them will end up as e-waste. And despite all the problems with the cars, they’re still much better for the environment than the average car on the road. It’s a shame what route Musk took over the years but if there’d be a perspective where all the shitty leadership fails without taking Tesla to the grave, that’d be my preferred option. If that doesn’t work, then to hell with the company.

Not sure how much storage space you need but I’m really satisfied with the Hyundai Ioniq 6. Thanks to its good aerodynamics, it’s one of the most efficient EVs which in turn leads to a good range. It can tow trailers, is available with AWD, has physical buttons for all important functions, supports Android Auto and Apple Carplay. It internally uses a current of 800V (rather than 400 as many other EVs) which allows for really fast charging speeds.

There’s also a slightly larger (less aerodynamic) version of it, called Ioniq 5.

Based on what I saw in reviews, the Volkswagen ID.7 is also a really nice car with lots of storage space but there I didn’t have the chance to drive one so far.

From my perspective, it’s mostly useless gimmicks rather than innovative features and almost nothing that’s really unique to the cars listed.

Interesting that Tesla is the king of fast charging, despite the technology being objectively worse in a fast charging application.

As far as I know this no longer the case for several years. Hyundai, Porsche, Audi, Zeekr, Volvo, Kia, Genesis, Nio, Lucid, XPENG, Maserati, Mercedes, BYD, … all offer faster charging speeds than Tesla. If you sort descending by charging speed on EV database, the first Tesla (model 3 RWD) appears only on page 14.

https://ev-database.org/#group=vehicle-group&rs-pr=10000_100000&rs-er=0_1000&rs-ld=0_1000&rs-ac=2_23&rs-dcfc=0_300&rs-ub=10_200&rs-tw=0_2500&rs-ef=100_350&rs-sa=-1_5&rs-w=1000_3500&rs-c=0_5000&rs-y=2010_2030&s=11&p=13-10

They are still among the most efficient cars however but also there, you’ll find good alternatives like the Hyundai Ioniq 6 (for model 3) or Ioniq 5 (for model Y). I think there’s also some very efficient models from BYD but apparantly they’re not listed in EV database (yet).

It’s still +26% in 6 months, +58% in a year and +535% in 5 years. There’s still a long way to go down unfortunately.

Daddy, is it you? (ಥ ͜ʖಥ)

I think you’re confusing virginia with virgin. Lemmy is for the latter.

For me the title isn’t nearly as bad as the last paragraph which you even emphasized.

The truth of the matter is the shift to green technologies is going to damage the environment just as much as fossil fuels

Unless, they found fundamental new evidence, this claim is blatantly incorrect. Thus, I personally can’t see the linked article as a trustworthy source of information. Which is unfortunate because they may have a valid point regarding the situation in Tibet that deserves the public’s attention. But spreading misinformation in order to amplify your voice isn’t a good practice IMO.

I don’t object the observation ‘China destroys Tibet to produce EVs’. I object the conclusion that ‘EVs are as bad as ICEs for the environment’.

If you want to compare the two technologies in a fair way, it doesn’t make sense to only consider the single dimension ‘Impact on Tibet’.

As said, also ICEs involve a lot of mining activities elsewhere - for the fuel and also for the production (e.g. platinum for catalysts). And independent of mining, the CO2 exhaust destroys the planet as a whole. Although that relation isn’t as openly visible as in your example, it can still be significantly worse overall.

The truth of the matter is the shift to green technologies is going to damage the environment just as much as fossil fuels

As far as I know, there has been a lot of research on that and that is simply not true. Obviously, producing any new stuff is never good for the environment in the first place. Producing no car is better than producing an electric one. But if I remember correctly, the overall footprint of an electric car outpaces one with a combustion engine after less than 50,000 kilometers (30,000 miles).

Also fuel includes mining activities which also aren’t exactly good for the environment. And as your article is mainly about lithium: we already now see the first cars with sodium-based batteries entering the market.

I guess that might be the end of Porsche then. I guess there’ll still be a niche market for combustion engine cars for the next few decades. But I think it will shrink quickly and especially in case of Porsche there are loads of well-maintained used cars and oldtimers that completely fill that gap.

But how is that an unresolveable problem?

Energy density of batteries is getting higher while prices are shrinking year by year. You can of course question if makes sense to keep throwing more and more batteries at a car with the size of a yacht instead of building a more efficient vehicle. But it’s not unresolveable.

The unresolveable part from my perspective is the underlying physics: more weight, big tires (at slow speeds) and poor aerodynamics (at higher speeds) increase consumption. And that problem was there all the time.

🚨 This way, officer… That’s the one who used the swearwords. 😱

But were these problems ever solved for non EVs? I mean the bigger and less aerodynamic the car, the more energy it takes to move it. That’s simple physics no matter what technology you’re using. That’s why IMHO SUVs and trucks are a pretty bad choice for an everyday vehicle.

Why only US bees? Pretty racist, huh?