Nah, you don’t. They’re very average EVs. No route planning, no way to set a charge limit neither locally nor remotely, trouble waking up when charging is initiated by the wall box, no preheating of the battery, the list goes on.

After a few years of homeownership you usually have everything for stuff around the house in the tool room.

I’m just noticing that having a tool room sounds unusual, seeing it written down.

Yes, the ton of elaborate Excel macros alone that keep small and medium business running at all tells me: not going to happen.

I’m somewhat hopeful, in the last ten years, new and renovated country roads have been getting dedicated bike lanes behind the guardrails. Miles away from the excellent, completely separate infrastructure the dutch have, but its a start.

Living in the boonies, I’m never going to get a bus going by every ten minutes so a solid market for good EVs is still what I root for.

Eh, ID7 and A6 are getting there. BMW i4 ain’t bad either.

I have never understood the concept of paying loads of money to go somewhere chock full of other people on my precious spare time. So, they want no tourists? Alright then, I’ll support their cause by continuing with my policy of spending my vacations around home.

The only low nose electric station wagon you can buy today is a Porsche Taycan

No, id7? MG5?

“Rapid” in Germany would mean “planned for finishing within 10 years, actually done in 20 for double the price and with half of the capacity”.

Dude found something he could put a price on and announced it. Now he’ll wait for offers.

The great thing is that others help them with the squeezing. Migrating a modern, manufacturing company to OSS alternatives in the backend is somewhat possible but labour intensive, in the frontend, nope, won’t happen. Way too much software, from CAD to extremely task specific stuff will only work when there MS beneath it.

Apart from a little, externally driven restructuring in their real estate departments, the companies that collaborated with our facists back then came all out on top in the end and thrived. If there’s a lesson in there, its not the one we’d like to see.

Well, he got his ressource deal signed so the US don’t give a shit about what happens from now on.

I’m already looking for migration opportunities.

Hun, you go ahead and do that. Complaining and being unhappy is a german pasttime, but every single person taking that elsewhere is a personal relief for me. We need to do shit to get this thing back on track.

I didn’t think there was a confusion about that until now. Actually I still don’t think so. Explain.

Well, it does work for some, especially those that crave approval as much as this guy.

My motto while I was living in an urban area. I found that I could ride my bike right up to in front of my office window after cutting a little brush on the building corner and from that day on I’d do that, knock on the window and climb right into my office chair from my bike saddle if a coworker was already there. Most satisfying parking situation in my professional life so far.

“But now it’s kinda obvious so we better spin it as a newly discovered development in order not to look too bad.”

Yes. I specifically engineered it to be easily digestable while eliciting at least 2 GPT (groans per teenager) if delivered over an average dinner table.

You are very welcome. Cherish the eye-rolling.