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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Third option: Blame Soros or Biden

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Making choices in the "free market" of capitalism:

  • A car that will destroy your health, community, planet, etc.
  • A fascist car that will destroy your health, community, the planet slightly slower, etc.

Remember: Without a car you will live in poverty and isolation at best.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago

Implying the vast majority of their voter base can even afford Tesla's.

The ones that do would have to forgo owning a huge lifted truck which I guess would also be a benefit.

It's still not going to even come close to bail Elon out of the situation he's in on account of so many big export markets now refusing to buy his shit, so he's fucked regardless. No-win for him, all-win for us

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How long before Tesla's next car has a combustion engine?

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe they will run on trumps “clean coal” lol

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

They could exclusively charge at those superchargers directly powered by fossil fuels https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/tesla-interstate-5-supercharger-power-plant-18343119.php

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Simply buy a cybertruck and put a generator in the back that's constantly running to charge it.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That would still make them cleaner than a diesel ICE truck. Since the generator can continuously run at a constant rpm where the engine burns the fuel efficiently. So that would also generate the least particulate matter since the burn would be cleaner.

There is a Canadian company called Edison who will retrofit a truck into a hybrid. They add two electric axle engines and convert the IC engine into a generator to charge the batteries.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

With all the ICE cars in use, I would love to see hybrid retrofitting go mainstream

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

It’d be a great repair for cars that need a new engine block.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting they drive... a hybrid?!

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

As long as you keep the generator running when you're driving it's just an externally located internal combustion engine.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

So an external combustion engine.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Also a fire hazard.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

No the combustion occurs internally in the externally located engine.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

They could use a stirling engine as a generator, that’s what an external combustion engine looks like.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are videos that walk through how to "de-pussify" (or some other misogynistic term) cyber trucks to make them run on diesel. I don't know enough about cars or cyber trucks to know how valid they are.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

That's hilarious. I'm guessing it would end up about as structurally sound as this

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

They do not have to be Registered Nurses.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Like most of them could afford a Tesla.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cash advance services see 800% profit with this one weird trick!

[–] ZJBlank@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

One weird truck*

If they sold the kidneys of their entire family, maybe.

[–] EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago

Compromise, buy the tesla but destroy it so no one can drive it

[–] flightyhobler@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was wondering about this earlier today. How to they reconcile "Elon is God" with "Electrification goes against my fReEdOm"?!

Easy. You are allowed to drive an electric vehicle as long as you drink two full cups of leaded gasoline a day.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 23 hours ago

Where do electric cars fit into "drill baby drill"?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Judging by the effects of the market on Tesla stock, I really don't think this is the struggle that the meme suggests it is.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think they should go for it and buy the 21st century Pinto. No one, not a soul, is laughing at them. I swear.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Hey now, the Pinto at least had to be in an accident first before it would blow up.

[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Thanks to pollution credits, Elon gets paid regardless of whether they choose to drive an EV.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They will still find a way to make exhaust pour out the back

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

Teslas are already very good at emitting plumes of smoke without their help, tyvm.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, after the batteries explode.

[–] RoamingWanderer@mander.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Or making them overly loud and obnoxious for no reason

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

Have you not heard the WRUWRUWRUWRUWRU

[–] vegantomato@lemmy.world -2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Click both, get a hybrid

spoilerPeople on the internet who obsess with left-right politics are a psyop, including maga grifters who think discourse about the environment is a lib-thing.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

😆 I think most people here didn’t get the joke

I think it is a good one

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Leftists be like