EV conversions end up being a huge pile of compromises that don’t add up to a good product. ICE and EV have requirements that are too different on a fundamental level to make it work, and when they skew one way, it will always be towards ICE because that’s what the auto makers know. It’s a bad plan. Expensive, weirdly…

And the frame and whatnot already gets crash-tested and engineered alongside the gas-powered models. A model variant is always cheaper than an entirely different model.

Based on growing inventories, and talk of mode line up simplification (ie from the Germans) you can make the argument that automakers are outpacing the buying public on ICE vehicles too...

I mean, doesn’t everyone want to double market share? I just roll my eyes at anything like that, because implicit is the assumption that no one is fighting back to keep the market share they want to steal.

Not significant enough to keep a separate model around. An electric variant of the world’s most popular vehicle won’t cost as much to develop and produce, especially since that vehicle is truck. Yes, 113k is more than 80k, and that’s the end of it if you’re simple. But how many of those sales were l0w-profit rental/fle…

VW wants to get to a five percent share in the U.S. market, or more than double what it is now.

I enjoy Kingdom Hearts, but I feel like the Awkward Zombie comic is an accurate depiction of the franchise as a whole, especially that last panel haha.

Heh. I played the game, but it was 25 friggin years ago. I remember fragments of the more memorable sections of the game as through a misty haze, but not the details about the coins. Anyway, the joke sort of explains itself methinks... :P

That’s about the level of discourse your take demands

conservatives have proven themselves to be human garbage, I wish google really did have a hate boner for them so that fucking fox “news” would stop showing up on my chrome and youtube recommendations. nazi shits can fuck off

Because a lot of them have gotten sponsors or host sites to drop them so they think it’s them getting their voices censored. Maybe instead of being shitty white supremacists and acting like mental patients and screaming about their “freeze peach!” they should try being decent people for a change?

Because, as Colbert said, “Facts have a well known liberal bias”. It is easy to feel like the world is against your opinions, when reality actually is counter to your opinions. It is much easier to go with your gut and believe what you want to believe than to question your worldview and admit you have been misled.

Being labeled a troll because you present an opposing viewpoint on a heavily left-leaning blog is to be expected. If the actual trolls whose contributions to the discussion end at namecalling could just maybe not log in at all next time, that’d be fine - hopefully writing your little piece was cathartic, too, though.

Why are neocons all convinced they’re being targeted? Where the fuck does this Self-Declared Messiah/Persecution Complex idiocy arise from?? They can’t ALL be undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenics. And why do so many of these “truthers” ignore the blatant lying of shills like O’Keefe and Dinesh?! And TRUMP and his…

Is it weird that I giggled with a touch of Schadenfreude at the mention of Project Veritas? I mean, if ever there were masters of the Self-Own, it’s that ball of moronic, self-important, rancid twatwaffles. You hear their name come up, and you just know their shit is about to implode in a satisfyingly hilarious way.

This article is literally about how a shitty ‘journalist’ leaves the basics source-vetting and your precious ‘objectivity’ to push a dubious story.

As a “journalist,” I also think that you should ignore a person’s history of promoting racist conspiracy theories and just assume this other thing they are claiming is on the up-and-up! This is how you should treat sources: ignore their history of lies and misinformation and just assume this new thing is actually the…

Job is not to determine source’s motive or fret over his imperfect rep, but to check accuracy of the information provided.

There’s also a smaller area where there is constant lightning, and it also always rains there. AFAIK there’s no way to stop the rain there at all?

Wales?