Dude this is just the subsidies drying up. I mean I guess yeah that is technically market for us but this isn't about making a vehicle people want. The technology isn't there yet. Cost is part of wanting something. Electric cars are still too expensive to make for Mass market competitiveness. That's why Tesla only sticks to the luxury market or at least kind of tries to.

It's actually a huge problem that Tesla debatably caused by focusing entirely on the luxury market. Technology doesn't really trickle down anymore. Companies aren't interested in you as a consumer unless you have gobs of money.. they will service existing markets as needed but nobody is going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars trying to make a cheap electric car. Especially when Tesla has tried a couple of times and failed and miserably.

Thanks for delivering evidence for my claim. Also thanks for demonstrating the LLM cult members have no reasoning capability left.

As an added information, because you do not seem to habe noticed, Slashdot does not support UTF8. You probably do not understand what that means though.

You are overlooking what is used in the industrial field.

Indeed. My firewall / fileserver is on an 18 year old Phenom II 4-core with 32GB RAM and there is no need to replace it. The only thing that broke about 8 years ago was the PSU. Replaced that and it is good fore the foreseeable future.

Then you do not understand how long some industrial equipment runs. "Older kernel" is only a solution if it gets maintenance. You do want that MRI machine taking your pictures to run on a maintained kernel, do you?

Indeed. I had one and I was quite satisfied with it. No idea why they feel the need to portray it as a near-failure.

The Windows fanbois are not rational.

It's heavy sun-tanning on top of jaundice.

What the fuck are you even talking about? I didn't vote for Trump. I voted *AGAINST* Trump, and while my vote went to the Democrats, I sure as fuck wasn't rooting for them like it's a team sport. They're the less detestable option, not the rah rah, go team option.

In Europe, Ford is not a prestige badge. They are competing with the likes of Renault, VW, Nissan, and Honda. And now of course the Chinese brands like MG, BYD, Jaecoo, Sonoda, Cherry, Omoda, and others.

They just aren't offering much for the European market. We aren't keen on light trucks, and most of their EVs are shitty fossil conversions. That just leaves the dwindling fossil market for them.

Could also be a warranty issue. Some poor designs rely on firmware to enforce limits and prevent damage.

It's bizarrely common with EV cars already. Some have fake engine noises, and some even have a whole fake clutch and gear shifting system. The silence and instant, uninterrupted torque are the best things about EVs.

Electric motors have instant torque without the spinning mass and gyroscopic effects.

Hopefully as well as the simulation mode, they work on creating entirely new ways to control the bike that take advantage of it being electric.

Europe has ARM, Linux was created here, and there is plenty of domestic enterprise grade hardware in things like telecomms.

China has been transitioning away, and shows it is possible. They have domestic CPUs, RAM, storage, motherboards... Europe can catch up.

Or just regular sports betting. The silly stuff gets all the press but in reality it's all just a sports betting platform. It was just a stupid way to get around state regulations using the current incredibly corrupt national government.