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pretty much nothing is certified to UL3700 yet, it's a brand new standard

ah I see. well you can generally plug any solar panel into any battery power station, so long as it doesn't exceed the voltage limits of the solar charge controller. but that might not be necessary with a balcony solar setup. what state are you in?

I'm becoming more and more convinced that the technology is just superior, putting environmental concerns aside. Our EV is just better than our other cars.

We bought a full BEV last weekend. My 2026 Toyota C-HR is the most fun car I've ever driven. Bye Bye Big Oil

It's like horses in the 1920s. Still plenty of people and businesses depending on them, but the direction was pretty clear.

Dems should open the floodgates on Chinese EVs

And then still having 30-50% of chargers not working. When was the last time you planned your gas fills before setting out?

Could the business geniuses have NOT written off tens of billions in investment in EV production, just because this one president is having a tantrum? Do they do any market research?

I love that trump will be the end of oil. The end of so many things

They're also the leading lobbyist working against EVs and will lose that second largest stat by end of this year as they work to rapidly dismantle their EV growth by cutting models, increasing prices and killing incentives.

Remembering how Trump had service members down on their knees last month rolling out the red carpet for Xi, who had plenty of reasons to smile.

I think the the reason nobody is buying the Bolt is because it’s possibly the most boring car imaginable. A Rockport walking shoe with wheels. Also, the dealers don’t have any interest in them because they are, by and large, chairs of the local Republican Party.

How dumb can they be, thinking EVs were dying? Did they think horses and buggies would beat cars?

Every us made ev is a dead car walking because eventually we'll get the real China EVs then it's game over for the US auto industry

It’s the fusion of cruelty, incompetence & nihilism. In the world according to Trump, nothing matters other than “winning.” Same as it ever was.

don't it feel great? especially if you get to pass one of those MAGA dickhead lifted diesel trucks with the flags and huge tires

Which proves he is not a very smart boy as he thinks he is.

Yes, but also any automaker that didn't have a 10-20y fossil phase out roadmap that included contingencies for political pendulum swings is reasonably assumed to be run by delusional fart sniffers.

Self inflicted harm by US auto industry. They delay all tech advances - seat belts, air bags, anti-lock brakes.

wait why do you think GM left the market?

"Tomorrow your most reliable suppliers' products will cost 50% more. Or maybe not. But also, definitely. Unless..."

Also was exactly the disruption Toyota needed to catch up on EVs. All that naysaying a few years back was a smokescreen.

It very much feels like a “get what you deserve” moment that will nonetheless be ignored by everyone who should actually learn from it.

"America Last"

Don’t forget tariffs auto parts made in Canada

We have to do muscle confusion on the production lines

And aluminum. And copper.

I mean, plan more than 3 quarters out???

I would agree, but businessmen are rarely savvy

This is America. The savvy businessmen have mostly died out. Now all we’ve got is nepo babies and grifters and combinations of the two.

Sorry, we spent 50 years teaching MBA bros and morons that "stock price go up NOW" is the only consideration for a corporation

Leasing solar is the greatest, you cut your electric bill by $250 and pay $260 a month to the solar company

Just go with an off-grid setup. Feeding back to the power company isn't worth it

The OEMs asked for this. Mary has ruined GM. The other ceos aren’t much better but they all pushed to roll back CAFE standards.

It’s almost like he’s corrupt and using the US government to make a handful of people fabulously wealthy at the expense of everyone and everything else, launching the US into a self-inflicted economic, political and environmental crisis.

It was shocking how fast every used Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt in a 200 mile radius was snatched up this summer

Because they're readily winding down their EV growth by cutting models, slowing new model development and pulling financial incentives while raising prices to kneecap their own sales, plus the whole lobbying against EVs increasing thing.

They didn't leave the market, but they definitely pumped the brakes on their earlier ambitions.

You’d think, given all of the trillions of dollars and blood lost in wars related to oil interests, that America would invest heavily in renewables and EVs. Self-destruction seems to be the chosen course. No greater value than the dollar.

It's not most Carmakers, it's primary GM and Ford, and they didn't ask Trump for permission, they directed this effort and are constantly working to undermine EV adoption, improved fuel economy, more affordable options for American families at the expense of those families heath- they're the baddies

Believing trump over experts😏

Trump is fucking up a transportation sector so much they'll have to make a Roger Rabbit movie about it.

Given that they gain power when economic conditions make eggs expensive when the opposition is in charge, what incentive do they have to leave a functioning economy for the opposition to inherit?

Saw a very nice looking E-SUV in Mexico with the Chevrolet brand. Called Spark (a name used on earlier e-models). Built in China for the Latin Am. market. I do think in the US & Canada the industry deserves blame for dragging the feet domestically on EV’s, instead pushing IC vehicles at rednecks.

Deals are his art form

Sure. OTOH, American cars were globally infamous as poorly-built archaic behemoths long before Trump arrived. Trump is the symptom, the USA is the disease.

And with interest rates climbing on auto loans, that is another cause for declining auto sales in the US.

Strange how trump's war in Iran suddenly led to a surge in EV sales. You'd think trump had investments in EVs.😍

I'm old enough to remember the absolute outage on the right about "picking winners & losers" because the government made a loan to Solyndra and they went under. This policy flip-flop on EVs, coupled with soaring gas prices will cost Detroit and US consumers BILLIONS.

Chinese Automakers make a superior product! instead of learning from them or simply *allowing* consumers access them in the free market there’s been a bipartisan effort to enter an industry death spiral

add this to list of automaker woes bsky.app/profile/nick...

But will they crater Trump because of it? I kinda miss the robber barons, they had big brass balls and would have destroyed a government for this shit.

You can get BYD vehicles in the UK

except for the global increase in coal use etc.

I partially blame democrats for not coming out immediately after Trump announced the regulations going away and saying that the regulations and timelines would be immediately reimplemented as soon as a democrat retakes the White House so they might as well keep with the planned timeline.

Drill baby drill…a hole into the auto industry

But...if he wanted to destroy the US this makes perfect sense.

And lobby to kill or retard EV adoption and push relentlessly to loosen fuel economy standards, all working in concert to maker American families poorer and sicker. They're the baddies.

As was foretold

plus tariff war with Canada, which is pretty fully integrated into the manufacturing process/supply chain up here in Michigan

they stopped making it when Trump got reelected. however there is a new smaller one supposedly coming out early next year

I will say it’s not all that different from a big SUV. there are a gazillion Land Rovers here that are just as huge

"rich Icelanders love America" was one of the things he told us. Caveat he also said climate change wasn't a big deal because "look how big that glacier is".

Woof. This would have been better as an el Camino

It's nice to know that bloated vehicles are one of America's top cultural exports. We're slowly making all other streets just as miserable as ours!

Trump is the gift to EV's they never saw coming😀

Just anecdotally it's insane how quickly the spread of (mostly) Chinese and Korean EVs has been here in Australia the last couple years. Went from Tesla being the only EVs you'd spot to some of the most common cars around basically overnight

dang, i thought you were referring to the other ICE. but i’ll take this good news.

Being in London and Paris last week it was encouraging and also sort of jarring to see how much further along on electrification they are. So many EVs on the road, fleet vehicles/buses/trash trucks electrified, charging infrastructure more developed. We are being left behind

Abolish ICE

whenever one of my friends' ICE cars is in the shop for a $1,000+ repair on something my EV doesn't even have, it's all i can do not to die from smugness. or when they complain about gas prices. stop. i can't get any more smug. you could've bought an EV, dumbass. they were $7,500 off under biden.