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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • 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.











  • 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.