Meanwhile, Americans and Canadians did NOT buy Leafs or Bolts. In total, GM sold 25,000 EVs while CDNs bought 180,000 Ford F150s, 54,000 Silverados and 43,000 Dodge Rams.

Fucking 10:1 , then Lemmy's man buns are getting unraveled when car makers don't want to lose money on EVs.

Think BYD will save the day? Think again.

[–] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Yep. I live in a northern city and there are more pickups than cars, and seeing an EV is a rarity. There are couple of Teslas and ONE Cybertruck that I think the guy bought because its a great advertisement to be the only one in a city of 60,000. People LOVE their pickups - EVs? Not so much.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Honda needs new leadership. They're already talking about how they will fail because they can't compete with BYD. Yeah, well you can't compete if you don't even try, clearly. It's sad that Honda will die because they refuse to go electric, when the original Insight hybrid was so forward thinking.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

original Insight hybrid was so forward thinking

it was a piece of shit compliance car. Prius was a serious car.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

compliance car

I've never heard that, what's the deal there?

[–] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

EVs that were built by companies to comply with a gov requirement to build a certain percentage of their vehicles as EVs. Example: The 2013-2019 Fiat 500 was a gas car but Stellantis also built it as an EV. It looks nearly identical, almost all body parts are the same but the drivetrain.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

I meant specifically about the Insight.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was reading a Japanese interview with Honda about how they are so proud of their history of innovation: that they were the first to create the bipedal humanoid robot.

Wow, great job. You did shit all with that lead you had and now the Chinese are beating you in every way. I hate living in Japan sometimes. Everyone is living in the past. We can't just survive on exporting anime, games, sushi, ramen, and tourism.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Big oil is always going to continue bribing politicians to keep the demand for dino juice cars going.

Oh the term isn’t bribing it is sponsoring? Hmm wonder how I got that one wrong? /s