Eh sorry, but actually YOU are wrong on many points here.
Batteries ARE moving away from rare earth materials, but not for Tesla.
Research has been done at various German universities, and they have working prototypes and are currently evaluating options to put them into production. Being Germans, this will take some…

Now that depends on a lot of factors, and if your energy comes from renewable sources, you are better off. Especially now that battery production is moving away from rare earth materials, and towards more modern concepts, EVs are the way to go - no doubt about that. Having driven a few I can attest that as a daily…

Not when you have to pay for the electricity. And depending on what card you have in Germany (there are some joint-ventures when it comes to charging stations), you pay between 28 and 70 cent per kwh.
So... depending on your luck when choosing the charger, you might be cheaper off with a Diesel car, or even a petrol…

you tell me, I have a 996 and barely driven it during the pandemic. Has a 105AH battery, and it is discharged enough after 3 weeks that the car won’t start. Can’t find the culprit. Porsche couldn’t either during development, so they resorted to stuff like the remote central locking shutting itself off after a few days…

Actually, the front fog lights are ok to use in more conditions than the rear ones, since the front fog lights should be mounted in such a way that they cannot blind anyone.

rear fog lights became mandatory in Germany in 1990. I know that, because my Ford Fiesta was a 1989 model, so I was allowed to add the completely black rear lights to it, which had a dual parking light, but no fog light.
Or so I thought. Since my car DID have a rear fog light from the factory, it had to work. So I…

This comes hot on the heels of the news from another Geman magazine testing the actual power draw of cars at the recharging station. They found that Teslas are the most power hungry, sometimes drawing up to 20% more than lands in their batteries. Bummer: You have to pay for the additional electricity.
Therefore there’s…

nice! That gives me some hope after the PS3 and 4 for the final console.
Although one of the main problems with the PS3 and 4 was apparently that the temp sensors went haywire (and were integrated into the chipset), causing fans to run on full tilt all the time and other stuff like that.

I hope my George Foreman Grill…

Nntendo did the smart thing long ago. I think even with the Gamecube, they were on the path to making money with the hardware itself. With the DS and 3DS they achieved that, also with the Wii. Whereas Sony and MS have been heavily subsidizing their hardware to get into the market and beat the competition, Nintendo was…

It might need more room around it to pull in air, lets see how it fares in a few years of accumulated dust.
If MS is smart, they provide a washable filter on the intake, should be easy enough with that form factor.

We had heatsinks on PCs on both sides of the motherboard though, back in the early 90s in some pre-built…

No, we hit that point years ago, and it got lost when the Saturn and PS1 started whirring their discs around. Before that, consoles were whisper-quiet, because they had no fans and no moving parts :D

I don’t necessarily think so. The whole Bioshock franchise was multi-platform. As well as Dishonored. Saints Row (although 3&4 are a blast in Coop as well).
Elder Scrolls series, Fallout - all multi platform. New single player releases are announced to continue the series.
Horizon could’ve been release on PC a long time…

Well, the biggest tourism company here just posted a loss of 98,4% compared to the previous year. And it had already been bailed out by the state.
I think that the tourism bubble is about to burst. People going on vacation using loaned money they didn’t have in the first place, just to post stuff to instagram.
There’s a…

That is indeed a problem, and I have to say that I am guilty of this, too.
Although I still don’t get why I combine orders, tick the box to ship stuff together and Amazon still sends 5 items from two neighboring hubs in five separate packages - all shipped on the same day, and arrived at the same time.
I mean, come on!…

You are right, shame on me. Damn, this is misinterpreted in so many circles, I even got told wrong stuff from the OCC insurance company on this.
Then maybe something has been modified on this one so that it doesn’t classify as a historical vehicle anymore? Should be more than 30 years old I think.

Not all drives are necessary though. We see that a lot currently with more and more people working from home (and actually liking it).
And it is not really necessary to just fly from norther Germany to mid- or southern Germany for a business meeting. You spend more time at the gate and pre-flight check-in and…

What’s even more insane: It is not registered as a historical vehicle according to your pictures of the number plate.
Historical registrations end with an “H” after the numbers, this means that the vehicle may only be driven for attending shows, historicals events, and for maintenance driving to keep it in a working…

The factories aren’t even the main point. At least in Europe most of them have mandatory filtration systems, regulations can be quite strict here for industrial emissions.
The complete lack of airplane travel and all the cruise ships staying in the harbor - that did a lot to curb pollution.
Saw a paper back then…

When clicking through the list, I knew something was odd.
Then I remembered: Ridge Racer V was widely ridiculed for only running at 240p to maintain the framerate it did.
Worse still, running on a PAL console, I remember it being slower (like Sega GT on Xbox where the time trials became impossible running an NTSC copy…

Since I am from Germany and I have followed the case:
Yes, the touchscreen as a device, and having that menu buried in a submenu, is perfectly legal, and the Model 3 has been road certified by German Authorities.
The ruling only tells you that basically you may not use the touchscreen while driving for anything…