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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 5h

slim pickens waving his cowboy hat and hooting and hollering as he rides a nuclear bomb down to the ground in dr. strangelove

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 5h

a journalist should know better than to share fake AI trash

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 8h

even with ad blocker turned on, this is the grim experience attempting to read an article on your website. horrible

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

cancelled in 2023 and then it'll be reborn late **next year** looking pretty much the same. astounding incompetence from GM

Kevin Williams @gaytonausa.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure what I expected here

insideevs.com/news/775172/...

2027 Chevy Bolt: Meet America's Cheapest New EV

The reborn Chevrolet Bolt gets a compelling $28,995 price tag, plus better range and charging specs than before.

insideevs.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

maybe it's delayed by the week-long national holiday in China, but this number ISN'T Tesla's China sales - it's the utterly useless Shanghai Gigafactory output number

the actual domestic Tesla China sales number I guess will come out tomorrow (Saturday is an extra work day!) or next week

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

I vote for Acheron – Fuck The Ways Of Christ (in the "anything in English" category)

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

amid China's EV boom, thousands of struggling car dealerships are shutting down

"According to Bloomberg, industry analysts estimate that more than 8,000 outlets have shuttered since 2020, with thousands more at risk of collapsing in the next year."

finance.yahoo.com/news/china-e...

China’s EV Boom Has a Dark Side: Thousands of Dealerships Are Shutting Down

China’s auto dealers are facing their toughest moment in decades as the rapid shift to electric vehicles, overcapacity, and intense price wars squeeze profits to the brink. Once a vital link between a...

finance.yahoo.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

£54-70k is way too much for an average size (4.8m) Model Y rival

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · Feb 28

Another day

Text box: Me reading the news every day about something that's happening in the U.S.
Image: illustration of a man looking at his phone with a disdainful look on his face
Speech bubble: Wow, that's fucked up.

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 2d

Carwow's Mat Watson tests the wild Xiaomi SU7 Ultra (1,500 HP!) in Germany, including a drag race

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJA8...

#EVs #EVsky

Is this Chinese Porsche better than the real thing?

YouTube video by carwow

www.youtube.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 3d

alt link: www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 3d

EU needs to ignore the lowball S&P Global prediction ("EVs would make up 63% of new sales in 2035" = BS) and stick to this. a decade is a looooooong way off and it's do-able

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Carmakers push EU to ease 2035 petrol car ban ahead of review on.ft.com/46YUEwq

Carmakers push EU to ease 2035 petrol car ban ahead of review

Industry body says policy is based ‘on outdated premises and optimistic assumptions’

on.ft.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 3d

without lane entering, it'll pull to the far-right

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 3d

Tesla sales in China are declining - but they're not declining as rapidly as BMW & Mercedes (and maybe Audi too?) with their lacklustre and over-priced EVs

Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.bsky.social · 3d

Tesla now bigger than BMW/Mercedes in China (!)

stats by #alojoh

⚡️⚡️⚡️
New Era Entered
#alwaysbecharging nitter.net/alojoh/statu...

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 3d

over 18,000 children murdered by Israeli military

**eighteen thousand** kids

"Deaths as a direct result of Israeli aggression, as of 30 July 2025" - "Of the 60,199 deaths recorded by July 2025, 18,457 or 31% were children:

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 3d

true. expensive + lazy is quite a combo.

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 3d

because Tesla is too incompetent to launch a new model, it has instead launched this Flintstones ass Model Y. notice how material has been glued over the inside of the glass roof

insideevs.com/news/774980/...

#EVs #EVsky

2026 Tesla Model Y Standard: This Is It

The cheaper Model Y we’ve all been waiting for is here. Can it compete with a growing number of competitive rivals?

insideevs.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 4d

it's worth taking a moment to appreciate this year is the 200th anniversary of one of the greatest ever inventions - trains!

On 27 September 1825, the first steam-powered passenger train ran on a public railway in the north of the UK

www.onthisday.com/articles/fea...

19th-century illustration depicting the opening Of The Stockton And Darlington Railway, 27th September 1825.

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 4d

strongly agree on what another commenter said: DISCOVER is so bad that it nearly made me quit the app before realising that I can remove it.

when I say bad, I mean showing irrelevant content - manga/cartoon drawings. no clue how to classify them. have zero interest. but Discover showed me lots.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 6d

How the US got left behind in the global #electric #car race

#BEV #EV #GHG #CO2
$TSLAQ

Full story:
www.bbc.com/news/article...

US lags behind world on electric vehicle sales

Share of new cars sold that are electric

Graph showing:

50% China
30% (ish) UK
20% ish World/EU (axis cross)
10% USA

All datapoints start @ 0% in 2015 and goes to 2025

Source: IEA, Our World In Data
Note: Electric cars include fully battery-electric and plug-in hybrids.

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 5d

from 0 to over 11,000 monthly sales in the space of just a few years. a meteoric rise

alt link: www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

UK becomes BYD’s largest international market after sales surge on.ft.com/46DLVRx

UK becomes BYD’s largest international market after sales surge

Chinese carmaker takes market share despite being shut out of subsidy scheme

on.ft.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 6d

it's not inhumane if it doesn't involve a living creature. genuinely astounded that someone apparently so smart can say something so dumb

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 8d

this kind of credulous garbage is exactly what the tech bros want - they want AI to seem inevitable and all-conquering. but it ain't.

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 8d

dude wants to speak to the manager of the nazi bar

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 10d

South Korea focused on premium performance. China focused on cost — and won the EV battery wars

China charges ahead as South Korea’s battery giants lose their spark

South Korea’s top battery makers are losing ground as Chinese firms dominate with cheaper technology, factory scale, and state backing.

restofworld.org

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