IMO, the prerequisite for cheaper EVs is offering models that are not SUVs. The article is a bit ambiguous about this, but “European-made models will include two compact and one midsize SUVs with combustion, plug-in hybrid or all-electric powertrains.” sounds to me like they’re mostly going to make ‘compact SUVs’ and ‘midsize SUVs’. Or the article’s author just focuses on their SUV offerings while ignoring smaller cars.
What’s your issue with German auto unions?
That really doesn’t solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they’re completely dependent on Firefox. You can’t just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).
Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.
Considering how little they invest into their core product compared to all the other shit and how much money the top brass earns despite declining market share, I don’t think they’re hurting for money that much.
Unfortunately, Mozilla is investing a ton of money into AI, too.
e.g. because they actually agree with conservative catholic policies. It’s not necessarily clear to outsiders whether those accusations have any merit.
Damn, I learned something new about myself today!
Also kind of fucks with progressives, though. Lots of people would accuse them of racism when progressive christians critize a conservative black pope.
ooooh, thanks!
Is that Shadowheart or an original character?
TIL Belgians have Fritz Cola. It can be hard to tell how widespread a brand is when you’re from its home market … I wonder if the new German chancellor is going to affect Fritz Cola’s popularity (“Fritz” is short for “Friedrich”).
Depends on what you define as “Europe”. Soviet Russia, its satellite states and Franco Spain weren’t really more free than the USA, even while they were legally segregating races in the south. EU was definitely more free from the start, though.
If you browse https://feddit.org/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&sort=New, most posts are still in German.
The local feed looks very English to me …
If German lemmy is any indication, usually there isn’t more than one lemmy-instance per language (English being the obvious exception).
The damage done by US big tech isn’t going to go away anyway soon, and we have barely done anything to combat that. Former blackrock employee Friedrich Merz, coming chancellor of Germany, is definitely not going to be the one to spearhead this. Europe is getting more and more rightwing and that doesn’t exactly point to getting more independent from Trump’s regime.
They are slashing social welfare, and the poorest are generally quite eager to vote for the nazis for some reason (certainly not their policies, they hate poor people just as much as the current government parties).
Russia doesn’t need to manipulate the polls, they already manipulated the voters …
I’ve been seeing quite a lot of chinese cars, actually (all of them EVs). I think they might be more common than Tesla in my area.