I’m gonna be honest. I don’t care how environmentally friendly new EVs will be. I don’t care what climate goals will be met if I switch. If the choice is between some EV with a giant iPad in the middle with no buttons, 24/7 cameras connected to a random corporate server, the ability to drive itself away at the company’s discretion, and liable to be towed without violating anything; and a gas burning 2009 Toyota that still has a CD player, I’m going to buy the Toyota.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Good news, then: ZYBERTRUKKKs are a massive waste of resources, even the source of their electricity is dubious and out-of-sight-out-of-mind externality at best, and a used car is probably going to be less polluting then a new oversized dumpster on wheels rolling around anyway.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Don't worry, gas cars will enshittify too, in spite of the reactionary impulses of the car bros

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Where I've been at since the genesis of the EV. I'm genuinely happy that y'all are finding ways off combustible fuel; but if I can't maintain my car in any driveway or parking lot in Amerika in under an hour myself? If I have to get predatorily scammed by either the manufacturer's in-house mechanics, or a fuckin Firestone every time one of the 100,000 computers in the motherfucker goes out?

Nope, I'm staying my ass on the internal combustion car. Make an EV as simple, as clean, and as unadorned as the cars my dad and granddad drove, or I'm not checking for it.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm just praying we get access to Chinese EVs in the next 3-4 years.

I don't want to buy a Tesla but I do want an affordable EV. I'd prefer Chinese.

[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Praying BYD gets a Mexico factory to take advantage of NAFTA

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago