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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

The funny part is that the one that's in GTA V works just fine lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

even fortnite cybertruck sucks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Stop eating onions.

https://twitter.com/FortniteStatus

Scroll to your heart's content, you won't find the tweet.

[+] [email protected] -23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Just drive hybrids. They are better for the environment, than ICE cars (and probably even better than the electric ones, as they aren't as dependent on battery state (i think)), there isn't any range anxiety problems. The only bad thing is, that you can't get the manual version (except on the mild hybrids) if you prefer that, because of the way the electric motor works.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

My daily driver is a pure EV, but while I was on holiday a few months ago I was driving a Yaris Hybrid as a rental (which to my understanding is basically a Prius drivetrain in a Yaris body).

Fuck me it was terrible. Every time I applied even mild acceleration it sounded like the valves were going to eject out of the engine, meanwhile it had about as much get up and go as a sedated elephant. 0-60 in four to six business days. On ramps were an interesting experience.

The only saving grace was that we only used about a third of a tank of gas during our week long trip.

I'll stick with pure electric thanks. No complicated drivetrain with multiple systems to go wrong, no compromised performance, enough range to get me everywhere I need to go, and good enough charging infrastructure (at least in my country) to make longer journeys trivial.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That’s because the Yaris is just a terrible vehicle, that problem does not exist in my Ford escape hybrid.

I did have a focus hybrid in 2013 ish that was complete ass but ford at least had figured out how to make a good hybrid in the 10 years since

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the trim and years I guess, I have a Rav4 hybrid and they have more power better fuel economy obviously and a different and better eCVT compared to the gas models.

Your latter point certainly is a negative and having to replace the battery but less stress on the engine throughout the lifetime of the vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least on the Prius, it has power modes, one of which (and the default) severely drops the power and throttle response, to save energy. If the Yaris was in eco mode, or something equivalent, that might explain it.

Your latter point certainly is a negative and having to replace the battery but less stress on the engine throughout the lifetime of the vehicle.

If you can get by with just purely electric, it would also save maintenance, since you'd be barely running the engine at all (or not at all), and wouldn't need to regularly flush the fluids like you would with a car that's been sitting a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's not the best for the engine to never have it running but if it turns on or is used for a fraction of the driving it means the same. My hybrid has 34k miles and the engine has probably only been running for like 27k of those. Running errands to the store or shops a few blocks away the engine turns on for like a minute.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I rented a Mustang Mach-E a few months ago knowing full well that I would be driving from Houston, to Austin, to Dallas, and back to Houston over the course of a week and a half.

Each of those legs is greater than the range of a Mach-E, and I had no range anxiety. None of my hotels had EV charging.

I did, however, learn how needlessly complicated EV driving on travel is. There's plenty of charging stations but you really need to be aware of what type and speed and how many are available, what's nearby to do, etc.

However, it's also worth considering that road-trips are wildly different and usually much less frequent than your daily routine or errands about town. Being able to charge at home and knowing that you can charge at work or at the supermarket, or where the EV street parking is downtown, makes a big difference, I'm sure.

What was also weird was that in Texas it seemed like the EV spots at rest stations or stores were intentionally in terrible places far away from entrances. Here in SE MA & RI, EV drivers get some of the best spaces. Like a special incentive for driving an EV.

All in all I really enjoyed driving it. Our next car will be an EV, I'm sure, but I'm in no rush to replace either of our cars right now.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hm, well maybe I'm biased, as I haven't even seen a hybrid or an electric car. It's weird a hybrid is worse, than an ev, as it's just an electric car with a generator (well, it's different with mild hybrids), so it should be the same (the only reason, I could think of is yaris being a shitty car, but it probably isn't).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hm, well maybe I'm biased, as I haven't even seen a hybrid or an electric car.

You haven't seen or used either hyrbrid or electric but needed to share that hybrid was objectively better?

This is why training AI on user content leads to so many terrible answers.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just said it should be better according to the statistics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You didn't mention "should" or "statistics" at all in your post with the claims. You just stated your made up opinion as fact.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

L take

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ngl here in qatar we bearly have any eletric stations and we got teslas here

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So they are only used for bragging or is range anxiety just a stereotype?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

idk i never owned a ev myself

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Wow. Much fail.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"Even bad publicity is good publicity". People ought to remember this, and simply STFU about the people in the world that really dont deserve a spotlight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

There's also the little detail that this is completely fake.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think Tesla floundering so much right in the middle of the EV boom is proof that there is such a thing as bad publicity

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thinks it's because bad publicity does help a brand get recognition, that's why the saying goes like that. The thing with telsa is that it already has the recognition so with every other article that comes out exposing yet another flaw with them, ever more people associate the brand with bad quality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if it would act as pro-Tesla or anti-Tesla to show a list of all the problems with Teslas and their current status.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

People shopping for an EV aren't going to like the idea of steering wheels coming off or trim flying off at highway speeds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Or being locked out of a vehicle with 11 miles on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Right. So would it be helpful or harmful to their sales to have a list where one of the items read like:

“Steering wheel comes off: fixed”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

EV or not, people don’t want to buy unsafe vehicles, period. Any brand synonymous with poor quality dies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Fiat is still around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the Ford Pinto didn't kill Ford, but Ford also had decades of company history at that point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ford will take a while to die, they’ve always stockpiled a lot of rainy day cash to weather out bad spells. As you’ve said they had plenty of successful decades and successful cars. They even had successful cars at the same time as the pinto so it wasn’t really a problem

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago

"Reminder that 1) Voting with your wallet works and sentiment on social media is a tangible factor," Fortnite Festival producer Kyle Wynn wrote. "2) Companies are composed of lots of different people with their own unique opinions. 3) That truck looks fucking silly and the CEO of that company is a piece of shit."

[–] [email protected] 278 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Before anyone thinks this is actually real, it’s not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

But, but ,but ,but... It's on the internets! You mean someone would just make up stuff and lie on the internets????

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I’ve seen them on the street!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Aww. I was wondering whether it is a case of malicious compliance from the developers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Too bad, I would expect them to hurry it through and skimping on the QA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That sounds more realistic, but fortnite isn't a realistic game. Put it in GT7 and let it do one lap and die. That's realism.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I assumed, but still found it funny.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

I was hoping it was real.

[+] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s like a bivector foil, just a really minor form of it.

Aliens probably sent it across the DMT waves to slow us down while they approach us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I understood that reference. Really got into that show!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

(book)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I knew you were gonna say book. (I never knew either existed but now I want to read the book)

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