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Dr. Dabbles

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  • Can-Am surprises with launch of naked and dual-sport electric motorcycles

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  • So you can drive about 80 "city" miles round trip for $16k? That's insanely overpriced. For 25% more you can get a Zero with 100% more range. Of you can drive 72 "city" miles for $2k less. 8 miles for $2,000?? What? And this is all presuming you've got LFP cells in there charged to 90% before you ride, and you come right back home.

    Good range for a city bike, sure. Bad range for anybody commuting into the city from the suburbs. And the price is foolish high for what you get.

  • Waymo’s sixth-generation autonomous fleet has fewer sensors ‘without compromising safety’

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  • Same waymos that are unable to navigate a parking lot around each other. Yeah, gonna go ahead and press doubt on this bullshit.

  • Thoughts on EV motorcycles?

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  • Zero is a fine motorcycle. I assume you've done your homework about EV bikes and you understand what you're doing.

  • Tesla is testing Model 3 with cheaper interior, starting at ~$35,000

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  • Imagine already having a cheap, chintzy interior and thinking to yourself, "I bet we can screw our customers over even worse". Wow.

  • Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

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  • Only now? It's been two years of this and now they've had too much? No partial credit should be given for people that continued to participate when it was clear what was happening.

  • Dealerships don’t want to sell EVs

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  • You're talking 25% off MSRP, or worse a locally adjusted market price which isn't the price people should pay. It's a suggested price. You should be paying invoice price plus a margin for dealer profit. It would really help for people to know how products sell and what the various prices are, because not knowing these things leads to mistakes like thinking you got an amazing deal by discounting MSRP or even a local market price rather than moving upward from invoice price.

  • Dealerships don’t want to sell EVs

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  • I think you need to look into how dealer pricing works, because you're making a lot of common incorrect assumptions. The dealer's margin on a new vehicle is, like 2%. They make a third of their revenue from accessories, a third or more from repair work, and the rest from financing finders fees.

    You got 25% off a car because either it was used, or the manufacturer kicked in incentives. Not because a dealer could afford to give you 25% off.

    Also, LMAO on hydrogen.

  • silver medal team

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  • Because the Olympics aren't good for anything but ruining nations and memes.

  • Focusing On Climate Change Too Much Might Slow EV Adoption

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  • No climate scientist claims to know what absolutely WILL happen.

    ... this is easily the most foolish thing I've seen someone say online. What the fuck do you think climate science is?

    Anyway, bye. Enjoy that sand you're huffing.

  • Focusing On Climate Change Too Much Might Slow EV Adoption

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  • The Paris Agreement

    Your best attempt is a non-binding accord among nations, none of which are going to reach their Paris Agreement aspirational goals. I mean, I know lots of people have their head in the sand and believe in magical climate fixes, but this is an especially bad take.

    Also, we absolutely ARE going to reach and exceed global temperature changes of 2 ºC. That's the disaster tipping point.

    You're also using avoided emssions and pretending this is preventing disaster. It's not. It's avoided emissions, but we are already at the tipping point. You should try knowing something about this topic before posting quotes, because you very obviously don't understand what you've read here.

  • Focusing On Climate Change Too Much Might Slow EV Adoption

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  • preordained apocalypse.

    Are you under the delusion that climate catastrophe isn't coming? Because it absolutely is, and there's nothing we can do about it. That's scientific consensus.

    I look at EVs as a scientist would:

    No you don't, because climate scientists realize that they're a half measure and do more damage than we can afford. Again, a stop gap (at best).

  • Focusing On Climate Change Too Much Might Slow EV Adoption

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  • Let me reiterate, I own an EV. You can feel morally judged all you want, that's on you.

  • Focusing On Climate Change Too Much Might Slow EV Adoption

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  • The idea that EVs will contribute little to global CO2 emissions is complete fantasy, and it demonstrates exactly what I was saying in my first comment. Nobody is willing to make the sacrifices necessary, so we all buy our indulgences and continue driving straight at the cliff we can clearly see. It's already too late to stop a climate disaster, we're simply determining how bad it's going to be. And from where I stand, it's going to be much worse than you're pretending.

    In the meantime, we keep on buying vehicles and dumping GHG into the air and pollution into our water.

  • Focusing On Climate Change Too Much Might Slow EV Adoption

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  • Focusing On Climate Change Too Much Might Slow EV Adoption

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  • BEVs do not reduce emissions enough. That is the point. Not even close to enough. And that's putting aside all of the physical space requirements, lack of water absorbtion, pollution, and personal injury caused by vehicles.

    It's not an overnight fix, but the fact remains that people have magical thinking and believe EVs are fixing or addressing climate change. They ARE NOT, they continue to exacerbated the issue. Being marginally better isn't fixing or fighting anything, it just lets you feel better.

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  • You missed the part where the latch is deforming, causing it to not close or alert the driver. The software fix is yet another attempt to dodge the fact that they do not have enough repair capacity or financial reserves for a major fleet recall.

  • Focusing On Climate Change Too Much Might Slow EV Adoption

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  • Ah, I see you think we can buy our way out of the oncoming disaster. Good luck with that.

    FYI, I'm an EV driver, you don't need to tell me anything about ev drivers.

  • Tesla earnings: Stock falls more than 8% after mixed report, lack of catalysts until October

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  • You mean the cell they "tested" in the Y and nobody wanted? Why would the need the cluster truck for that?

  • Tesla recalling more than 1.8M vehicles due to hood issue

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  • The usual suspects are already starting the attacks.

  • Focusing On Climate Change Too Much Might Slow EV Adoption

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  • Yes, literally the ONLY solution that will impact climate change. But people prefer paying for indulgences so they can continue to sin.