The race felt like everyone forgot how to prepare a racecar over the last half year.

In the post I replied to You compared performance and not visibility. And while the ROI for visibility may be better than elsewhere, the cars are still ridiculously expensive for what they are.

I actually watched about 20 and visited one since the last FE race I watched. FE is just too MarioKart with fanboost and the other boost thing and too dishonest in marketing.

F1 is the wrong series to compare costs. F1 is much faster and has free development.

A guy on my street has a W123 as daily driver, that he street parks and that has no visible or hearable issues.

There is also the threat of isolation failure, homebuilt power electronics or even just a homemade harness are equally dangerous as a shoddy battery, as it presents an invisible lethal danger. And cars do seen to be a bit under-regulated in this area.

Merkel or Macron should have snatched an ex-Lufthansa/AirFrance A380 just to flex on Trump, Putin.and Johnson.

The german A340s are currently being replaced by brand-new A350s. They have millitary registration and operation, but civilian livery and no military role..

They are still running research and development for combustion engines in Wolfsburg, and they also hire people for that.

But that is a temproary artificial situation that would not exists when the first proposed ICE bans would be enforced.

You have weird laws about modifications. Here in Germany the car has to adhere to the emissions laws that were in place when the car was first registered, whatever the state of the modifications. This means the only vehicles that can legally be operated without filters and cats are early 80s or older, so they don’t…

I also believe in nuclear, but I’m disappointed that we are 25 years behind in reactor development. Building new iterations of existing water-bases reactors isn’t the way forward, but any promising concept is underdeveloped. Had a share of tge coal subsidies gone into nuclear research we might be running Molten…

Fuel is also not making them money, they are only making money due to the amount of fuel they sell and the shop. If they make 1ct of profit per litre of fuel, they would probably need to score 10ct or more per kWh to compensate, and move the shop upmarket into a cafe or something

That is something that people who campaign for a ban on ICE cars deliberatly ignore for ideological reasons.

My mother bought an Opel Corsa(100hp ICE) 1.5 years ago at 54 years. As the car is used primarily for grocrey runs and driving to work, its mileage is not high and the EV would not have made up the 10k difference by saving fuel until she got to retirement. And of course she couldn’t have spent 30k on a car.

The barrier of entry is much higher than Tesla made it look, because people tend to ignore through how much cash the burnt and still do.

But that was the case in the 80s, when reasearch was defunded. If we wanted to continue with nuclear, we need new reactor types, none of which are ready, but they could be operational had research not been defunded in the late 80s.

And with the coal shutdown we are effectively turning into a much larger version of Belgium, which can cover its power demand only when certain conditions are met and is importing up to half of its consumption at other times from us while celebrating themselves for their clean energy.

I love how the soviets did not care at all when designing a badge for EMW

The survey is based on customers reporting problems with the cars. So you can finish quite well despite building crap if your customers expect crap. The higher expectation and complexity is what pushes the more expensive manufacturers like the germans and JLR down the order. There is a reason why Porsche put wastegate…