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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Despite anti-Musk protests, Tesla remains best-selling car model in CA by a wide margin for 2025
6·19 hours agoTesla always sells poorly in the first month of a quarter in the UK. I don’t really understand why, but it’s very much a thing
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim RatcliffeEnglish
1·19 hours agoAll emigrants are immigrants
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim RatcliffeEnglish
5·1 day agoHow predictable. Tax dodging white billionaire points the finger at impoverished brown people for all of societies ills.

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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim RatcliffeEnglish
2·1 day agoFrom the perspective of Monaco, he is an immigrant
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Tesla is quoting $290,000 for its 500-miles electric semi truck
3·1 day agoI pay £0.08/kwh in UK. Just saying. I’m sure haulage firms in UK will find a way to access the cheaper rates that the rest of us are using every day.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Nice to see an ICE car fire getting some media attention for a change
1·2 days agoHere’s your qualifications.
https://www.evfiresafe.com/ev-fire-key-findings
I look forward to your suitably sourced rebuttal.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•BYD outsells Tesla 10-to-1 in Australia as Chinese EVs dominate January sales
11·2 days agoHopefully it’s sustained but in general it’s a bad idea to look at Monthly Data because it’s more volatile than quarterly data - heavily affected by shipping and OEM registration practices, especially with Tesla. In UK Tesla always starts a quarter slow and finishes stronger.
Edit: here you can see what I mean: generally 3000 vehicles sold in the first month of a quarter, then 10 times that by the end of the quarter

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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Plugshare / abetter route planner - non us alternative
1·2 days agoIn UK, in my experience: ZapMap / Electroverse / ABRP are commonly used. Even Google reviews are used for rating charge stations.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Nice to see an ICE car fire getting some media attention for a change
31·2 days agoIt’s also true that explosions are far more likely to occur in an ICE fire than EV fire - EVs tend to smoke and then slowly burn to a more ferocious fire, but in general provide more warning and time to escape than ICE fires (as well as being less likely to happen in the first place). ICE fuel is designed to explode (especially gas / petrol).
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Nice to see an ICE car fire getting some media attention for a change
53·2 days agoI haven’t seen the evidence to suggest that BEV fires are orders of magnitude more dangerous, as you claim. I have seen the evidence to suggest that they are orders of magnitude less likely.
Yes they burn hotter and are harder to extinguish, but I understand that generally they spread slower and with more warning, allowing greater time for escape (unless you are stuck in a Tesla and haven’t read the manual cover to cover).
ICE cars are more likely to explode, BEV cars take longer (in general) to become fully engulfed.
If there is a credible evidence source / study looking at fatalities per fire (which corrects for the stupid door handles) then I’d be very interested to read it.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Chinese EVs are flooding the market – and that’s great news for you
131·2 days agoUnfortunately we all suffer in the long run by the lethargic pace of the US transition to EVs, because the climate is global.
Not that it’s a surprise. Remember that the US pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Twice.
So we have Russian interference in UK democratic elections, and US interference as well?
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UK Politics@feddit.uk•UK leader Starmer fights for his job as Mandelson-Epstein revelations spark a leadership crisis
1·3 days agoUtterly absurd position IMO, and I don’t believe that it can honestly be held by any rational person. But you are welcome to it
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•JLR to recall 2,278 electric SUVs in US over fire risk warning, NHTSA says
2·3 days agoRemember when JLR made electric vehicles? Those were fun times. The Jaguar I-pace was ahead of its time. And of course there was the other EV (Range Rover) that was showcased in 2023 and now in 2026 there is still no launch date confirmed. They must be haemorrhaging cash paying carbon credits now.
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UK Politics@feddit.uk•UK leader Starmer fights for his job as Mandelson-Epstein revelations spark a leadership crisis
42·3 days agoI can think of at least one country leader who should step down due to their involvement in the Epstein files, and it isn’t Starmer.
If Starmer stands down because of Mandelson’s historical links to Epstein (the full extent of which is only now becoming apparent) it would be ridiculous. People with actual connections to Epstein are not standing down, so why should Starmer?
Are you kidding me!? The super bowl halftime show failed to address the 401k values!? Unacceptable!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Buy European@feddit.uk•Better buy European: Trump ‘kill switch’ fears grow over Australia’s $17 billion F-35 fleetEnglish
4·4 days ago“Buy from us, the country threatening to kill the machinery that you bought from us, and to annex your lands”.
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World News@lemmy.world•Tesla slipped behind VW in European EV sales last yearEnglish
10·8 days agoWith the whole Greenland thing, I can imagine that people in Denmark especially would be against buying a car from an American brand



Overall Tesla Sales in CA (By Unit) 2023: 238,589 2024: 202,865 2025: 179,656
I guess it’s hard to see the amount of Teslas that weren’t bought, which might otherwise have been bought were it not for the whole “I hate Musk” thing. But while EV sales were growing in CA, Tesla sales were falling.