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

[sznowicki@lemmy.world]

Dacia Spring. You're welcome.

[bitchkat@lemmy.world]

I recently bought a camper van and was planning on getting starlink so I can work from the road (not full time). I guess I'll have to make sure I'm not off the beaten path on work days and stick to Hotspot.

[squizzy@lemmy.world]

Anyone driving anything close to a pickup here is a knob. Ford Rangers or Raptors are for men whos wives dress them.

Hilux was acceptable but they are in the same boat now, you all look ridiculous.

[teknikal@eviltoast.org]

Yeah sad thing is I can understand Starlink being the only option for some people, so yeah I wouldn't blame you for using it.

[fabledaepitaph@lemmy.world]

This is the way. I wish more people would accept what is quite literally only minor inconvenience in the name of starving these insane companies. We honestly have it so good in most of modern society, and some things are just totally optional imo.

Thanks

[imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works]

Pretty much true in the US too - especially a Raptor.

[duamerthrax@lemmy.world]

It's was getting shown off at CES. Plenty of videos on youtube.

Europe would be a different beast regardless. It's expensive to pay for safety testing in one place and those aren't transferable. If you want one in Europe, you might be able to as a private importer maybe? There was one guy who tried that with a Cybertruck and got in trouble. I'm not a lawyer.

[treczoks@lemmy.world]

This metal blob goes against so many safety regulations in Europe, it is basically unfixable. And even then you would need a truckers licence to drive it, like the ones for big commercial trucks.

[cynar@lemmy.world]

They have there place, but they are in the same boat as vans etc. They are commercial vehicles, to do a job, not city runabouts to stroke egos.

[essteeyou@lemmy.world]

"Europe and the UK" did they move the UK to another continent, or did they mean the EU?

[presently42@lemmy.ca]

So, I hate to be the breaker of bad news, but the UK has left the EU Don't shoot the messenger

[whatsisface@sh.itjust.works]

EU != Europe

Europe is a continent. The European Union is a group of countries in Europe, no longer including the UK.

[toofpic@lemmy.world]

Read the comment. EU - maybe, but not the Europe,how do you leave a continent?

[toribor@corndog.social]

Maps like this are the only way my feeble American brain can process complicated European things.

[humanspiral@lemmy.ca]

Turns out that siding against voters interested in human sustainability, and pro oil extortionist conservatives bent on climate and human destruction is not a good EV marketing strategy. I have an MBA... AMA

[echodot@feddit.uk]

Yes but not the continent despite what certain people would like

[echodot@feddit.uk]

Great Britain and the British Isles are geographical terms, not political ones. Sometimes publications will say Great Britain to mean England, Scotland, and Wales, but not Northern Ireland but they also don't include things like the Isle of Man in that even though technically Great Britain does include the Isle of Man.

Unless the conversation is explicitly about geography, and land masses you should not use anything other than the United Kingdom.

[rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee]

Is the manbaby gonna sue every European for not buying his shitass cars now?

[echodot@feddit.uk]

Yeah technically it's a HGV, and you need an HGV license in order to be able to drive it.

Although apparently the other problem is that it has red indicators, because in the US they don't have separate lights for brakes and indicators they just flash the brake light.

[rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee]

Give it a couple million years of plate tectonics.