Nail polish is even easier and more effective. And as a bonus you can do thinner layers for when you want some visibility still.

This is not the case. There are case of 1 year old EVs getting written off.

If anyone had any doubts that "online safety" laws had any other purpose but to silence dissent, here is Exhibit A.

Means of slopduction.

You could make a case that American auto sector directly employed a lot of people and provided even more jobs indirectly. This is NOT the case with AI firms, that employ almost nobody in a grand scheme of things.

Agree. No bailouts, no too big to fail for AI firms.

No, EVs have been heavily subsidized by various tax policies in EU. You can make a Ferrari cheap to own if you just stack up rebates, tax breaks, manufacturer mandates, etc. This does not mean that the product itself is cheap.

Not the EV deprecation rate, that is dictated by markets.

Those people don't exist. Someone in the market for a well-used Civic also does not have a home charger to charge an EV, because they rent a dog crate apartment and work shift somewhere that not going to provide them with perks like free charging at work.

Exactly. EVs depreciate like a high end luxury cars. This is because they are, no EV buyer cross-shopping one with Honda Fit or Toyota Corolla.

Catastrophic depreciation is one of the key reasons EV total cost of ownership is so high. This depreciation is so high for multiple, largely unsolvable reasons, key being that EV battery problems usually means write-off for the entire EV due to OEM battery costs, unlike ICE where engine failure routinely repaired by swapping used engines. That is, EV depreciation so high largely due to anti-repair design ideology.

No, people know how to count their own money. Total cost of ownership of EVs is still not cheaper, even with increased cost of fuel.

IONIQ 5 sold 18,395 for the first five months of 2026, meanwhile Ford sold 68,129 F-Series just in May 2026.

So this is Kotaku, the shit tier 2010 "new media" corporate blog with gaming focus that fired all of the writers after they ran it into the ground and replaced them with AI writers.

Who are now farming clicks with AI hate.

This is beautiful.