Do remember that those were designed from the start to have active cooling, the Leaf wasn’t, in fact it’s a great example of a lack of foresight between the lack of active cooling and the Chademo plug.

What’s the difference between pedantic and accurate? Mine was good enough, and yours was accurate.

Cost isn’t the only factor to adding a cooling loop, there’s a good chance that they’d have to make room in the pack for the cooling system, which means either a bigger pack or a less powerful pack. As to cost, have to engineer the radiating, plumbing, plumbing mounting, computer controls for the cooling system, and of course the radiator needs good airflow which might require a redesign of the front end, and the charger port is there, so that might need moving which requires more engineering. It snowballs easily.

I actually agree, we leased our Leaf because we wanted an inexpensive electric car, and this was at the height of the Bolt battery mess, so that really only left the Leaf, but we weren’t dumb enough to buy it, use it during it’s best years, then give it back and let it be someone else’s problem.

Possible, unlikely though below the level that would make any ICE vehicle an insurance write off too, so no real reason to worry about that unless you plan on regularly driving through flooded roads

I think much of the Leaf’s lack of innovation was due to price, the goal was for it to be an everyday car in looks, operation and price, and that last one means it’d never be very profitable, at least not for a long time, so updates just weren’t feasible. A good question is how does the Arriya compare to other brands EVs, since that’s their newest most modern vehicle.

Not real surprising, as I understand, all their electric vehicles are basically variants on the same vehicle, whether you’re talking a BrightDrop van, Silverado electric, Equinox EV or the upcoming Bolt, economies of scale and all that.

With the catalog of products they have to base it on, I have no doubts they can do it, but I do have doubts to reliability and Jeepness, it’ll prolly just be another cheap electric crossover that could be mistaken for any other out there

Don’t forget Clue

I always loved when Picard broke out the polite British fuck you, remember when he was dealing with the Shelliac<sp?>?

No need for an Apple keyboard unless you’re looking for extra function keys, a regular keyboard will work fine, and if’n for some reason you need the Mac layout, it’s available, I’ve always used the English (Macintosh) layout so I can get easy access to keys I like to use or sometimes need.

True, I’m not sure what the solution is, but saying the rules only apply to certain players rubs me the wrong way. And that’s not even getting started on how much of the threat comes from US automakers refusal to produce electric cars until they were staring down a gun, plus how much they want to sell large expensive vehicles so they get nice large paychecks. Sure, China could and prolly is subsidizing their electric car industry, but we could do that too, in a way we already are with the tax credit only applying to American made vehicles.

You’re welcome, it’s a favorite, and I was going to post it to my blog, but decided it’d be more appreciated here

True, but banning them seems like using a nuke to deal with a fly, just a bit overkill. I don’t expect the Chinese to play fair, but it seems that just saying that the rules only apply to American companies seems wrong and lazy.

Chuckles, “Yep, only American manufacturers should be allowed to cheaply build cars in Mexico and export them to the US.”

This is the second time I’ve tried Floorp, and a far bigger failure than last time.

Well there is .floorp and .var/floorp for it’s files, so I’m really not sure what they did, I suspect they left a few code calls to something Mozilla and that’s where the problem lays

Interesting, I’m running LM:DE, and haven’t had any problems, on first start up it offers up a selection of things I might want to do including loading proprietary drivers. So far I have it running on multiple computers, including two POS terminals that were never meant to be used as computers.

Weird, it is a user per se, it’s a Mastodon account dedicated to the same thing this group was, and I think Lemmy can follow Mastodon?

https://youtu.be/IX2bE-OBtwk?si=wU1eq8bSuhYQn0Ft

This group will be going away soon, if’n you want to get recall alerts, follow @Recalls@social.xcetera.biz which ostensibly can be followed here