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Like what?

Korea has a few (Hyundai, Kia / same,same) but the only Japanese options are [P]HEV or the Toyota BZ4X which is... ugly... if it didn't have a Toyota badge I don't think they'd sell any of them. Few old Leafs still hanging in there, but if you want to go more than 100k at a time that's them ruled out.

Can't speak for other countries, but in Australia BYD is smashing it.

They represent incredible value for money and it's not like we've got a local industry to protect - our conservative government made sure of that.

We're already the world's dumping ground for shit vehicles that don't meet emissions standards, so having a non-Elon Musk EV alternative is something people are grabbing with both hands. We bought a BYD Seal Performance for $70k AUD a little over a year ago. For that money you get an incredibly comfortable sedan that does 500k on a charge, costs about $1 per 100km to run, and does 0-100 in 3.8 seconds.

EU vehicles are crazy overpriced by comparison, and because they try and position Mercedes / BMW / VW as luxury brands here the servicing and repair costs are through the roof. Part availability also sucks, with everything being a 6+ week lead time. We've owned European vehicles on several occasions and never again.

Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?

I'm not entirely sure we're missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.

Got an EV too - 85kw'ish of battery ready to roll.

Would love to soak it up over peak period, then recharge it overnight at off peak rates. Doing that alone would be a big saving.

I am very keen for batteries. We have 20'ish kw of solar and so much is wasted because of export limits. If I could pump all that waste in to a battery to use over the peak period of an afternoon/evening we'd greatly reduce our bills.

I will never understand what part of Trump politics appeals to "young men" (or anyone).

The bloke is a loser, yet just keeps bluffing and grifting his way to the top. How is that a trait you want to emulate?

Even in the article the kid says:

"I was watching TV, and he just came out, and told everybody what was going wrong.

.... When did this happen? In which particular series of words that fell out of Trumps mouth during one of his insane ramblings did old mate get the impression this is what happened? It's like seeing a portent in your bowl of spaghettios or something. Just because a brief moment of chance brought something together that appeared to make sense on the surface doesn't mean you should ignore the 99% that doesn't.

I recently learned a term for this sort of story:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan-crushing_machine

You live to give

I dunno if I really trust the public to make good decisions anymore though.

It's the entitlement that pisses me off the most.

Why did she feel so entitled as to think it's perfectly fine to fuck with a wild animal? Like, why is she so important that she should be able to inflict distress on another being?

She needs to have her visa revoked and a fine given just to stop other dickhead influencers copying her.

I'm surprised it hasn't been a law already?? Forget calling it "wage theft", it's literally just "theft".