You may want to note that this Youtube's guy primary complaint was about the poor customer service, that seems to be quite regional, and that he very much still is a fan of his Ioniq 5 with the strongest comment being that until this is fixed it is "a bit harder to recommend [the car]. Still consider it."

This got a lot of bad press this year so I suspect if the OP's next car will come sometime next year it's likely not going to be a problem anymore. But ... they have been working on this issue a while already so there is that.

The world doesn't care about American stupidity, and no even if no EVs were sold in the USA after September 30th, global EV sales for 2025 were sill ahead of 2024.

Tesla has been announcing and promising a cheaper version of their car since the Model S first took pre-orders. Literally. They have yet to deliver a car that meets their promised budget goal for the last 15 years. Your claim makes zero sense. Also this is a company that amid the Cybertruck sales slump, and the inability to sell Cybertrucks decided the best option was to include mandatory features in several Wankpanzer trims increasing their cost, so even without Tesla's promises they have shown to do the exact opposite of what you claim for the exact reason you claim it.

Oh is that the "buht the tire particulates" moron? Or the one repeating early 2010s era coal power plant emissions bullshit? Or the "but lithium mining causes huge CO2 emissions" bullshit?

It may not be for you Mr Rich Westerner. But you come from a world where shared pooled resources optimised the delivery of infrastructure. That is far less ambitious than tens of millions of people working to build their own.

The entire railroad industry during construction of the railroad employed only a small fraction of the people compared to what is being discussed in TFA.

Power plants are lucky to be the work of a workforce more than a couple of thousand people strong. It's not ambitious or difficult in the slightest, even the first ones. You're looking at this from the completely wrong angle. The ambition here is related not to how it gets power to people, but rather how it does so given the insane inefficiency of everyone doing it themselves. Building one powerplant is easy. Building 10s of million tiny ones... that's an ambitious project.

The correct answer exists between your post and the GP's. Yes some regulation is important, like the ones you list. In other cases it's just completely pointless bullshit. My example (not America, so be happy you aren't the only special ones) we had dormers installed. The one on the front roof required council permit approval. They insisted the dormers have white frames and rejected our desire to make it in anthracite on the basis that both our neighbours are white and wanting a "consistent look". They only looked at the houses either side of us. The rest of the street is a fucking rainbow already. It is *less* consistent now that there are three houses in a row with the same colour façade *** just on the dormers.

Please don't dismiss the GP's complaints are irrelevant. There are really very many rules which are just outright silly to EVERYONE.

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. It wasn't ugly IMO, but what it was ... is ... well the other games. Not only was it going against entrenched competition, it brought literally *nothing new* to the landscape. It's unfair to say the competition outclassed them in any way other than being established. These games are all samey, but the problem is you can't convince people to switch from their established live service title to another one without offering them something for the effort.

Concord was a fine game. It may even have been a roaring success had the others not come long before, but as it is it just had nothing to offer anyone.

The only fact presented is that someone doesn't understand what the article is about, and how insignificant the USA is in total number of *global* EV sales.

Don't lie you didn't read it.

The numbers are linked in the article.

The numbers are in the article and summary.

The article is about growth / decline, percentages show that. The percentages are linked to the numbers.

Who cares? A vehicle is a vehicle. I don't give a shit *why* a vehicle is driven or who owns it.

I like your username. I'd be shaking my fist at myself if I comprehended what was said as poorly as you just did.

This article is not about the USA. Trump's hateboner for anything progressive won't stop the rest of the world from adopting new tech.

Incentives are available all over the world. These are world wide numbers. The USA isn't moving the dial much here.

Stop gaslighting. There were plenty of articles saying EV sales were declining even in April.

There's no propaganda, there's just numbers. You can read them how you want, you posted it yourself. It's lies, damn lies, and statistics. Interpret the statistics yourself, the numbers are there for you.

Do you often reject reality to live in your made up fantasy? I mean I am asking because you legitimately just made a post that said everything is actually wrong and made up an alternative.

"They have absolutely exceeded our estimated market demand, and for that we apologise."

*turns to marketing guy and whispers* "Fire whomever only produced 8 of these, and make sure we make 8 more."

Huh? Or maybe a follow up story on one we mocked only 2 days ago is the perfect Slashdot interest story. I mean even if Slashdot were 100% non-profit and took no advertising dollars I would have expected to read about this here.

Doubt it. These "socks" are ultimately a knitted loop which will be during use looped around all sorts of things, shoulders, handbags, etc. It is far easier to snatch a phone from someone's hand than it is to snatch a bag that is has a strap connected to something. Also being fabric they aren't stiff they would be harder to pickpocket than say an open handbag.

That said I see a rise of knife assisted theft in the future. Going up behind someone and quickly using a knife to cut through straps. It's already a very common action in many parts of the world.

This isn't luxury. It's guilt indoctrination. The invocation of God saying you should be miserable because there are other people worse off than you.