Renault and now a dozen European made EVs at $25K. Tesla sales were doomed without the Nazi politics because they are unreliable cars. Also, Europe does not need expensive EVs with massive battery packs.

For now…

We are being persecuted for our beliefs in homeopathy. They won’t even let me pay my taxes with water from a jar of $100 bills.

Uh…a vending machine will charge $2.50 now for 1/3 of a litre of water in Canada, and people lost their shit at paying $1.50 a litre for gasoline.

That pic has serious Salt Bae vibes. But if douchebags can convince people to buy $12,000 bottles of fermented grape juice, which was once free in Europe, then water can’t be far behind.

And gun nuts. Link any article about armed police or military and you get dissertations about what is an assault rifle or not as if it makes any fucking difference.

According to owners and Consumer reports, Teslas are relatively far below industry average for reliability. While everyone is encouraged by new battery longevity, the motors fail at very high rates.

And I would take that bet. The reality is EVs work poorly in cold weather, we have a horrible charge infrastructure in which most of those public chargers at any given time don’t work. I’ll stick to my hybrid for the foreseeable future.

No one stumbled at Toyota. They sell more hybrids than all the EVs combined. Toyota makes money. Most companies lost money on EVs.

Ok but one way to make an EV charge faster and cost less is to put in a smaller battery.

TSLA is not the stock market. It’s a cult. The valuation of that company follows no rules of Commerce.

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EU has a dozen EVs under 25,000. Average car costs are misleading, the mean is a more important number.

The problem with auto reviews is that they are all advertising. They never mention reliability as a concern. Australia killed off local GM and Ford production and they brought in Chinese EVs two years ago. Consensus already is that they don’t last.

Better how? Because Australians disagree.

Charge stations should be on the Italian Autogrill model. Only in Italy can you get the best food in the country at a gas stop.

The problem is actuarial data that shows Teslas have more frontal collisions which is because of the screen which is on track to being banned in EU. The second problem is the brittle cast aluminum frame shit out of Giga presses that makes most collisions a right off. Hence very high insurance costs on the Teslur.

A few days rental tells you nothing about the quality and reliability of a vehicle. Neither do automotive journalist reviews. They never talk about reliability. Australians are not happy with BYDs, even after only 2 years.

That’s only a part of the reason. Europe now has 12 models of EVs at €25,000 that by every measure, are better.

All true, but North America does not have mandated safety inspections for cars. They are used until they fall apart and kill people.