No, combustion engines don’t weigh much nowadays. 100-300 KG is common. Battery pack alone for a Model S is 544 KG, motor+inverter+transmission is another 140ish. For an RWD car, AWD of course adds another one of these (it also adds drivetrain complexity in an ICE vehicle, but not as much additional weight as in an EV).

VW ID.3 is apparently 41% heavier than a similar sized Golf.

Who wants a more front-heavy car? That’s just a recipe for understeer and I prefer having the ability to turn on ice.

You can put a petrol fire out in less than a few days though. Petrol doesn’t magically catch fire upon seeing oxygen either.

Does the robot have any sharp bits? Tempered glass doesn’t require much force if using, say, a broken bit of spark plug.

Not yet

No Android fork that I know of, but the APIs are separate crates from the gtk ui so there’s nothing stopping you from using those crates to create an Android app unless there’s some dependency that doesn’t sit well with Android or something - I haven’t tried it.

Unfortunately yes. I still think the rotary knob is the ultimate infotainment control interface since it’s much easier to use while driving. Still, I’ll take the large screen for navigation over my tiny one even if I have to use the touch screen. Voice control rarely works for me, I have a very thick accent.

You can also contribute to PipeLine, it’s a desktop client that aggregates YouTube and a few others. And it’s written in Rust.

The issue with YouTube is the network effect though. Even if you can get a lot of users to use one of those multi platform clients, it’s still hard to get the creators to leave. And till they stay, the users stay.

None of those have all the creators and people don’t want to go between multiple apps.

This fight is lost. The way to win it now is legislation or blowing up data centers.

Yes. You will quit YouTube. But 99% of people won’t and they make YouTube more revenue via either watching more ads or giving up and subscribing

It’s nice to have it on a fixed screen of decent size rather than on a floppy mount and a 6.x" screen. The car screen doesn’t need to be a touchscreen though. My Mercedes had Carplay with a rotary dial, no touchscreen. That was when they were still being conservative with their tech, then they went the hyperscreen route.

The alternative at this point is laggy digital interfaces unfortunately.

Also apparently the phone doesn’t radiate you while in your pocket, only on the can.

There’s dozens of sources, I linked the first one. The things they mention actually happened and have been corroborated by other sources.

She basically always agrees with Putin’s propaganda. Either she’s an asset or a useful idiot.

Used Teslas cost chump change in my country, especially older Model S which is the more luxurious model. Morally, I could justify buying a used one. I still hate the things though. And while I don’t care too much about my image, a nazi sympathiser is not something I want to look like.

I’m considering a Jaguar I-Pace or MB EQC instead. But if I can get a REALLY good deal on a used Tesla, I might consider pulling the trigger just because 2 euros per liter of diesel makes me spend twice what my payment on the Tesla would be and I could charge it at home.

Though I do love my current torsen-based Quattro so I’d ideally want an AWD car meaning the ones that fit the bill are about as much as the I-Pace. Which begs the question of which one is actually nicer to drive. Guess I’ll have to test drive them both.

Gabbard is a pro-Kremlin conspiracy nutter

It was a personal device apparently.

Are they hurting? They still made a massive amount of profit, it’s just that their lead is shrinking. They’re still the biggest EV manufacturer by far, though Geely could catch up in a few years.

It’s not just cars. Electric cars became somewhat widespread before electric scooters. Those are awesome for getting around town quickly and are only feasible because of how cheap batteries have gotten. Cars could hide the battery cost easier than scooters, which you expect to be cheap.

And of course other forms of electric mobility too.

You CAN self-host a search engine, look up searxng.

Yes it’s a metasearch engine, but so is Kagi for the most part, their own indexes don’t cover everything.