• poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    Ugh, what a shit article. It mentions exactly one model, a Dacia, that has been already on the market for some time, and a Renault prototype coming maybe in 2026. There is nothing like what the headline suggests as far as I can tell.

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      Thanks, I was afraid I had missed a wave of new releases of German car makers finally getting of their arses - not that I’d mind, but no, they didn’t.

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        SUVs, anyone?

        No?

        We also have crossover SUVs.

        Maybe a SUV mixed with a coupé?

        Still no?

        How about a Combi mixed with a SUV?

        Our cheapest option?

        That’ll be 30.000€.

        Electric? No. That one isn’t electric.

        For that you’ll have to upgrade to our eSUV.

        Why… why are you leaving?

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          Me in a dealership: shitty sedans and suvs. Oh, what’s that? I left in a minivan.

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    I wonder what happens if you own a Chinese car but the car decides your social credit score isn’t high enough to drive…

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    Very interesting. I wonder how those manufacturers are planning to make these cars cheaper? Do they just have a smaller battery, or do they go with LFP instead of NMC or NCA?

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      probably buying batteries from china, since there is no one even close to competitve with them, like BYD’s Blade battery. And then competing on everything else, for example by cutting down on all the superfluous crap they put in to massively overinflate car prices over the last 20 years.

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      Renault has been doing the Zoe at roughly this price point for about a decade already, although there was a monthly lease on the battery so there’s an ongoing cost. I see quite a few of them going around here, though they’re not a huge presence. They’re simple but pleasant on the inside

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          Not really. It is clearly a thing of the past, when batteries were expensive and not as reliable as today. Don’t forget that the zoe was released 10 years ago.

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      No matter the source and even if you get electricity produced using coal, the car is better for the environment after less than 50k miles

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      Sodium batteries are coming, and lithium batteries can be recycled so a lesser evil I guess.

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    Good. Much better than that auto exec who was suggesting tariffs on imported EV vehicles would be needed to “save” Europe. I want to say it was BMW but that might just be my own bias against them speaking.