Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla

[flowvoid@lemmy.world]

It's an open standard now, it doesn't really matter that Tesla was the first. So it's a good thing, kind of like iPhones using "Android charging cables" now.

[kerrigan778@lemmy.world]

Elon gonna start using the EU for not buying his cars

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

I had a Mazda Pricidia (MX-3) for a few years before I bought the Ranger. Thing was great. I had the rear seat pulled out and got a joiner pal build a custom wooden bed to put in. Did double duty, was enough to hold a week's worth of veneer stone and thinset plus my tools. Built-in storage boxes under the top. And with the front seats folded all the way forward there was an extra piece I could drop in, and all of a sudden you've got enough space for a double size inflatable camping mattress. I miss that thing.

[pyrflie@lemm.ee]

Why would they, Telas are lemons.

[klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com]

At this point, they became homonyms. Nothing more.

[professorozone@lemmy.world]

Tru dat.

[regrettable_incident@lemmy.world]

Yeah that sounds like a pretty decent solution. I know someone who did something similar to a Volvo estate. Bit crazy though that we've got to modify old vehicles to get a suitable work motor - seems like a gap in the market. VW made some sensible size pickups back in the 80s - but like the jumbuck they are old now. I hate to say it, but you might do better with a transit or sprinter. It's enclosed space but you've got room for tools n stuff.

[__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works]

Nearest repair center is 2 hours away

[noodle07@lemmy.world]

Workers are desperate for a union if anything they're the good guys too

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

Yeah, too many people look at a truck and say to themselves: I think that'd do to take the kid to football practice and myself to the office!

They're just not making trucks for working anymore, and I personally am pissed!
I suppose I really should think about getting a small/medium sized van.... just irks me a bit. I guess growing up the only tradies using a van were painters, plasterers and glaziers. And folk with real jobs had trucks....

[phaze@lemmy.ca]

No one wants to drive a swasticar.

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

Quick Elon, sue every EU citizen for not buying your car!

[regrettable_incident@lemmy.world]

Yeah I know what your saying, I'm thinking the last decent pickup truck was a Hilux around twenty years ago. I've never had one but I've had mates who did and who really reckoned em. I've driven one on a farm I worked on, it was old and not road legal but it was an amazing farm motor. But yeah, the new ones are too wide imo. Like you, I fuckin hate it when I'm trying to get back from work and it's school run, all the parents picking up their kids in pristine, huge trucks that they don't even know how to drive!

But yeah, if you just want functionality I'd say grit your teeth and get a transit. An swb transit will get anywhere in a city, plus you can put a workshop in back. You might wanna tail lift being a mason, I dunno. But lithium leisure batteries are getting crazy cheap at the mo, put a 500w solar panel on roof and regulator charging lithium battery and you'll run a 2kw inverter no prob. You'd prob get all the bits for under £500 and then it's just a bit of wiring. I have a similar setup myself, except I live in it