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[Maineiac12]

Tesla also got plenty of subsidies and loans from the government over the years.

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[JohnnyEV]

If any of them need a bail out, let them go bankrupt. They had a blueprint for at least modest success from Tesla. It's a bit like bailing out the whaling industry after the civil war. Not worth it.

The Tesla blueprint is still to be decided, they have made a lot of questionable moves that have hurt the brand. We will see how great Tesla is over the next few years now that they have saturated the market and have good competition. Their best decision to date is the SC Network, that's a money printing company by itself.

 

[ctuan13]

If any of them need a bail out, let them go bankrupt. They had a blueprint for at least modest success from Tesla. It's a bit like bailing out the whaling industry after the civil war. Not worth it.

In terms of business, Tesla has ultimately become a notable success, but as an industry leader, they have Ben disastrous for consumer rights and repair culture as a whole. Their cult-like following rabidly defends their consistently anti-consumer practices and however inspiring their processes and production efficiencies might be, we cannot allow the idea that the cost of efficiency is a product that is essentially unrepairable and unservicable by a consumer.

I really do hope Aptera succeeds, because one look at their process management strategies and their stance on right-to-repair, demonstrates that you can be both for lean manufacturing and pro-consumer.

 

[BeeKind]

If any of them need a bail out, let them go bankrupt. They had a blueprint for at least modest success from Tesla. It's a bit like bailing out the whaling industry after the civil war. Not worth it.

It's hard to envision what this looks like. The new big three is Rivian, Tesla and Stellantis? Tesla buys either Ford or GM because they wasted their half-ton opportunity on the Cyber Truck? Does Apple buy Rivian?

For the first time, we have options. The reason why Bush and Obama bailed everyone out is we had no options. Going to be interesting for sure!

They're going to have no excuse, people were saying in 2018-2020 what securing mineral and battery manufacturing was going to mean in the coming years. A hostile communist nation attempted and succeeded in gaining a monopoly on their watch while they had the resources and knowledge to do something about it.

Kinda scary future ahead.

 

[BeeKind]

I don’t think any will go bankrupt due to EV’s

I mean, not sure what you're basing that on: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/27/business/volkswagen-brand-no-longer-competitive/index.html

Big bets in the EV world can only be done so many times and eventually they need to be done right. Even sans climate change they're just clearly better machines for passenger vehicles through most half ton trucks. The adoption is inevitable and our opinions as citizens on the ground is meaningless because we're reacting to the situation as it is, not as it will be. When charging is solved and EVs are being sold less than ICE (because, subsidies) the adoption will be overwhelming.

Ford was already behind GM even with their Bolt/Ultium gap. Again, these are huge, huge red flags about their 10+ year viability. This may mean little while we're hovering around 5% BEV adoption, it will be non-stop headlines at 50% adoption rate in 5-6 years.

 

[F150ROD]

I mean, not sure what you're basing that on: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/27/business/volkswagen-brand-no-longer-competitive/index.html

Big bets in the EV world can only be done so many times and eventually they need to be done right. Even sans climate change they're just clearly better machines for passenger vehicles through most half ton trucks. The adoption is inevitable and our opinions as citizens on the ground is meaningless because we're reacting to the situation as it is, not as it will be. When charging is solved and EVs are being sold less than ICE (because, subsidies) the adoption will be overwhelming.

Ford was already behind GM even with their Bolt/Ultium gap. Again, these are huge, huge red flags about their 10+ year viability. This may mean little while we're hovering around 5% BEV adoption, it will be non-stop headlines at 50% adoption rate in 5-6 years.

Ford will be ok.

 

[BeeKind]

Ford will be ok.

This is fine.

 

[F150ROD]

Now im wondering if this new Sync Software will support Apple CarPlays Instrument cluster Maps view hmmmm

 

[ChrisCon]

Hi, back when I was younger (man I'm only in my 40s but this was 20 years ago still, ugh, curse you time) I managed a quality assurance department at Acclaim Entertainment.

Sorry to get completely off topic but-----

I live way out east, but around this same time frame, a friend of mine Devin C. (we called him gamepro, because of course) play tested at Acclaim. He would drive hours from Southampton to Oster Bay/ Glen Cove. Not sure how big your offices were or if you knew each other, but it was also 20+ years ago and at the time, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

On a truck related note, Acclaim usually didn't dissapoint except for that Bigfoot game for the NES was terrible and 9 year old me had a sad Christmas that year (1989) .

- Now back to your regularly scheduled programming-

 

[BeeKind]

Sorry to get completely off topic but-----

I live way out east, but around this same time frame, a friend of mine Devin C. (we called him gamepro, because of course) play tested at Acclaim. He would drive hours from Southampton to Oster Bay/ Glen Cove. Not sure how big your offices were or if you knew each other, but it was also 20+ years ago and at the time, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

On a truck related note, Acclaim usually didn't dissapoint except for that Bigfoot game for the NES was terrible and 9 year old me had a sad Christmas that year (1989) .

- Now back to your regularly scheduled programming-

You're asking me to remember names from 24 years ago

That's definitely the place. I was in the "TSG" or "Technical Support Group" adjacent to the QA testers and my title was "Manager, Compatibility Testing" or something like that. He may remember me more than I remember him as I stood out a bit. I started there at like 17 or something as some cocky prodigy-type and on top of that I look absurdly young for my age.

We were a bit segregated from the testers, they treated them like trash, dual shifts, barely wanted to acknowledge them as staff. They would give you like strict breaks even time how long you were in the bathroom. It being the corporate HQ they were of course the hardest working people in the building too. Every one of them was a stellar employee cause you had to be or you'd get canned in the first 5 minutes.

Did he go on to Rockstar? I feel like everyone who was in QA at Acclaim who stayed in gaming went off to get far more respect. Rockstar was a common destination. The people were all great, the place itself was cancer, especially at the end as you might imagine. (CEO had to have body guards around him at the end, hah) I'm not even sure why we did it like that. I mean, I think I know but I don't want to bad mouth what may be your friend (the guy I'm talking about isn't name Devin don't worry!)

I'd probably know his face, I was a heavy smoker and hung out with the testers all the time, in fact probably most of the people I was friendly with were in QA (probably age related). We used to have huge LAN parties literally every night and play Counter Strike Beta. So we'd play video games for 8 hours, then hang out at work and play video games for another 5. During lunch we of course had Acclaim Arcade games in the lunchroom, hah. I lived in Queens, the 2 guys I remember most lived out in Queens too cause we'd car pool.

People I remember he may know, "Darth" or Chris Maher or Allyne Milles. I remember those names cause I worked/knew them outside of Acclaim . I doubt he'll remember me, my name is Jimmy. If he does, it'll be because I was the stupid young cocky kid

My favorite memory was that I used to get reference boards. No, like me, personally. There was this open thing we'd trade beta software for reference boards so I'd have like the GeForce 2 reference board a full year before release. That made me feel like the king of the world at 19 or 20.

 

[Labs4Lightning]

Now im wondering if this new Sync Software will support Apple CarPlays Instrument cluster Maps view hmmmm

No. Not worth their development time $’s for retrofit.

you’re probably overlooking the bigger resistance to Apple.

why do all the big manufactures have their own individual screens (I’ll breeze past the underlying OS) data ownership. Apple adds that layer of privacy which irks companies on the other end.
most noticeable example: Facebook took a huge hit when Apple put up add tracking block.

i like Apple, i’d probably prefer their main dash, ford feels like a grandfather when I see their dash and main screens.

 

[Gloff]

Interesting its charging at 7 amps and .8 kW - thats 7 amps at 120V. From the picture it looks like the mobile connector which uses 12 amps at 120V... I wonder if it can be adjusted now???

edit: the truck be adjusted I mean, not the EVSE

We're the dealer in question, we have an old EVSE that has 7/12A selectable output. Sweet vintage Lectron unit, I believe it came with our Azure Dynamics Transit Connect. (For those of you who remember that).

No adjustments on the truck that I could find though.

 

[flyin525]

Darn it! But thanks for letting me know.

 

[Pioneer74]

There is an APIM update currently rolling out to the Mach-E that updates the top row icons. We should be getting them soon.

 

[GDN]

There is an APIM update currently rolling out to the Mach-E that updates the top row icons. We should be getting them soon.

And maybe ProPower on without the truck and maybe Walk Away Lock?

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