Pick an industry, there’s a graveyard for it somewhere in China. There are entire cities that are completely abandoned. This has very little to do with any of these individual industries and everything to do with the way China does business in general.
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No more chipmunk cheeks.
Quite yummy! (except for that badge)
Yes, they apparently refined a few prompts in Midjouney and here we are.
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LOL Fox Business.
Not surprised.
ICE cars are only environmentally friendly if you don’t drive them. What’s the difference.
How did “carbon footprint” take hold as a valuable and reliable metric of a car’s roadworthiness?
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Something with low production numbers has a higher footprint when compared to something with high production numbers?
Say it ain’t so Joe.
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A lot of astroturfing being reposted on this discussion. Here is a well written article with the facts (ie even if all your electricity came from coal, which it doesn’t, an EV would still be better for the environment) and about the onslaught of false information about EVs that has been propagating (who do you think benefits from that?):
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In any case, the car you already have is probably net more efficient than making a new one. 
“This ad illustrates the regressive shift from excessive greenwash back to blatant climate denial.”
“Exxon released an ad earlier this month that could signal a public rift between two industries that have spent a century working side by side.”
Someone is correct on this - my reality is that it will play out over time and the consumer or government will direct the outcome. I have nothing against electric transportation although I will miss the wonderful sound of an internal combustion engine - I have been involved in converting a 1992 Porsche 964 to Tesla power. (https://sacrilegemotors.com/ It’s an extraordinary car but watching it drive by is like watching TV with sound off, and it is certainly directed at the 1% of the 1%. Given all of that, my problem with most of the current crop of EV’s is that they have been designed to appeal to the early adopter, a consumer who wants to have a rolling expression of their environmental mission. The new cars that are designed to appeal to this group are arriving at a time when the target is hitting saturation. My issue with EV owners isn’t that they are trying to do the right thing for the environment - it’s that the purchase of the EV instantly made them the smartest person in the room.
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I so want this. The describtion says it will have:
- a sturdy interior for carrying sportsgear
- an insulated frunk for Pizza !
- lay flat seating, to create a bed.
All aimed at the young, active urban crowd.
Well, sorry. I hope they will sell me one, although I am not really young, anymore and will not park it in the city, but rather at the beach or in the woods.
I might rip out the solar roor, though and put a targa top instead.
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Nailed it @Dan_Lewis
Saw my first electric GM Hummer yesterday. I am not sure what its missions are, but environment virtue signaling isn’t one of them! More like a small UFO attack fighter craft.
May be misguided, but to the buyer it’s still virtue signaling.
I want to like this but why’s it short and bubbly looking.
It is a street-artist caricature of a GTI, recognizable but funny proportions. Maybe the top bulge is to accommodate the big heads of EV early adopters
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