Their best simply wasn't good enough.
I'm really intrigued by the Ioniq. It isn't cheap, but it looks great.
I would be very, very angry about that.
My 500e I bought for 7k
A vehicle that can do a daily commute for 7k would be perfect. If you're talking about the Fiat 500e, it's 34k in my region. The cheapest used I can see is 22k.
Do you really NEED to be able to drive 300 miles every day? If so, battery isn't likely for you. And if you don't need to, why cry that it can't?
This comes across as hostile.
My complaint is price points. When I get reduced range, I feel like I should pay less. An EV with a range of 120km in the winter for 7k would be amazing. It'd be a decent deal up until 15k. After that, the apparent value drops off. Like I said in my post, a PHEV feels like better value.
As much as people believe EVs are better for the environment, aren’t they increasing the rate at which a vehicle ends up in landfill? I hope recycling is part of the car’s lifecycle.
EOL has been part of the calculations I've seen. No car is better than an EV, but that is limiting.
Double your commute gives you a buffer for the heater, or the grocery run after work. For most people this is only 80 miles.... which almost every electric only car can do without issues.
Is the cost worth the vehicle?
This is where I get grumpy. I feel like that kind of range is a different category of vehicle, and it should be significantly cheaper than an ICEV, since it means I need to plan around the range.
I realize it's the size of the battery pack, so it isn't where most of the cost of the vehicle comes from, but still.
When it's time to replace my current vehicle, I'll probably go PHEV. But ideally public transit will be solved, so I won't need to. 🤣
Holy crap. That's an expensive software update. Did the manufacturer provide any kind of remuneration?
My phone app now has "audio emoji" which is just a shitty soundboard that plays into calls. I've started answering calls in the hopes that they're scammers so I can start spamming the soundboard.
But I only ever get the robodialer. The scammers never pick up.
I trust my crap to update itself. Is that wrong?
I think it's more like
since indigenous population has [a higher cost of living]
I've heard a bunch of stories about temporary farm workers making more cash here than they would in their home countries, even though they're still paid poorly by Canadian standards.
There are a bunch of downsides for them: employers at home don't want to hire them, since they expect them to leave when the Canadian farm season picks up; they don't see their families; they're "abused by the owner class" (as you say).
That's the SEO arms race. Ad peddlers have been creating sites to bump up their Page Rank, and Google has been adding secret sauce to detect and deprioritize them.
The difference is that Google over prioritized Reddit pages, trusting Reddit's updoots. Google now needs to find other signals to determine if a Reddit post is as valuable as the updoots suggest.