This was me at 17 working as a busboy at a place that served a lot of pie. The end of the night side work got kinda freaky.

I think they are just subsidizing to gain users before the IPO though, no?

And I’m moving to an always logged out experience.

Yeah I hope for Europe they just do some big farms in Spain and Morroco and make a really good grid for the rest of Europe.

They do have home wind turbines but they don’t look that practical.

You gonna do home wind turbines?

Depends on geography but yes it works fine in many places.

I agree in general but as someone who lives in a place that’s grey much of the year and have evaluated solar for my location, the ROI is not amazing, and it’s pretty useless during winter. Even at current prices.

The issue is that with solar “cheapest” and “reliable” depends on how sunny your geography is. It’s not cheapest and reliable everywhere.

Solar is great for where it’s sunny. Not as great where it’s not.

Give it time. It will be weird and sketchy.

Cool, an €115 billion injection into the European economy and jobs which we would have wasted offshore for no benefit, let’s do it!

I’ll admit it’s not the worst example taken in isolation, but for heaven’s sake it’s a Jag. It is very likely the ugliest Jaguar ever made.

There’s some truth to this, and we probably will never have the energy density of batteries that gasoline has, but EV’s do have the advantage of having all their weight in the bottom of the car, so they tend to handle a lot better than you’d expect from the weight. Anything you lose on the corners you make up in the straights.

For example, the Tesla Model S Plaid ($89,990) set a 1:27.78 lap time at Willow Springs (Big Willow), beating the BMW M5 CS ($142,000) at 1:28.76 by 0.98 seconds.

I wouldn’t call them beautiful, but yes they are at least passable (except the older ioniq 6’s- don’t like the looks of them). I mean the best of them like the Mazda simply look like average ICE sedans. But it’s sad to see so many manufacturers with track records of making beautiful cars like Audi, Ferrari, and now Jaguar pumping out completely fugly EV’s. I just don’t get it. This is one area Tesla did pretty well. Pity Elon owns it. The one cheaper EV I actually like the looks of is the Smart #1, specifically the grey and red Brabus edition.

I’m actually pretty impressed with how cheap EV’s are becoming. The ioniq 3 at €28k is a great deal, and Smart just announced their tiny #2 ev at €20k.

What are you talking about? EV’s have been blowing doors on ICE cars on this metric for a while. A $44k MG 4 Xpower has a better power to weight ratio than a $122k Porsche 911, and beats it off the line by .3 seconds.

Even the new Audi Q2 Etron they are rolling out in 2027 is horrendous. I thought I could trust Audi to make a normal decent looking car, but no. Not any more.

Do EV’s have to be ugly? Are they doing this on purpose so you don’t buy them? What’s going on here?