Oh certainly, but it’d be better if they weren’t, or more if the CCP wasn’t keeping that labor as cheap as possible to poach manufacturing from countries that at least act like they have regulations and standards.

KIA’s reasoning for not bringing this to the US was the Inflation Reduction Act’s EV credits that incentivize US manufacturing.

Of course then you have to have that giant corporation “inflation tax margin” and everything just has to suck in different ways for everyone.

I might be making a bad assumption, but ya gotta love that cheap Chinese labor and massively reduced startup costs!

I can’t find concrete info as to where this is primarily being produced, but seems pretty obvious.

I’m speaking from experience.

What if I told you, “not necessarily?”

He is busy having an entirely heterosexual dinner date with his heterosexual female Christian girlfriend.

Tim Apple: “Today, we’re excited to announce ‘Kumbaya Messaging’™️ for iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, and MacOS! Kumbaya Messaging™️ brings not only Apple Ecosystem™️enjoyers closer together through rich, more connected communications, but will allow all your friends and family who are still using Android to be able to be able to enjoy all of your shitposting gifs, memeojis, and Live Photo™️ snapshots of your take-out pho, including the hilariously embarrassing audio you always forget about. We at Apple want to bridge the divides in our daily lives, and with Kumbaya Messaging™️, we believe we can bring all of us that much closer together.”

Yep.

See: Regulatory Capture

*jots down ‘load kids feet first into chipper’

Wait, is Microsoft violating child labor laws, too!?

make it run E=mc² miles per hour

You just converted the energy of Einstein’s corpse to mass. It increases in weight by a billionth of a gram or so and you’re now paraplegic.

Also, you failed high school physics.

/sorry

LOL

and grits straight off Natalie Portman.

Go on…

Dealerships survive on maintenance.

Most EVs regular maintenance is tire rotation and filling washer fluid.

Math EZ.

Getting nostalgia hits thinking about loading up some version of WaaS (AOL script kiddie program for those unaware) that used Shoots and Ladders for a startup jingle, and I’m replying to ZeroCool. Hah.

Well sure I like free video games too.

Er…

And this is why I click on the NSFW “fitgirls” links when browsing /all

Romani ite dormum!

At a point where a drive unit has to be rebuilt, it’s going to be hundreds of thousands more miles than an ICE would have on it when it requires a rebuild, and engine rebuild means “lifetime” is over. It’s effectively a new engine after that.

It isn’t an interval, though, it is lifetime. I’m apparently continually failing to make that point.

120k is only the warranty period on the drivetrain/battery, and I’m using it as an example, for parts that have zero maintenance, and are guaranteed for an amount of miles most people never even put on an ICE vehicle that otherwise requires oil changes every 3k-5k miles.

put back the old fluid

Irrelevant. Even being in the position of having a drive unit serviced at all is outside the norm or intent for lifetime of the vehicle.

Dude, this is utterly ridiculous nonsense and no one should be having their Tesla motor drive units cracked open to change lubricants. Not only does it void the 120k mile warranty, but it proves you have no experience with them.

You may as well be telling me to have my rear diff rebuilt on an MX-5 after 10,000 miles.