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Protests at Tesla dealerships are reasonable IMO but this is obviously criminal

 
www.independent.co.uk

Chinese Tesla rival BYD’s electric cars can now fill up as fast as a petrol car

Super E-Platform offers 400km of range from just five minutes of charging
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Chinese automaker BYD has become the first in the world to unveil a commercial battery for electric vehicles that is capable of charging in roughly the same amount of time as it takes to fill up a fuel tank.

BYD’s new Super E-Platform offers 1,000kW charge speeds, which is four times quicker than the 250kW charging rates of Tesla superchargers.


These speeds can offer a range of up to 400km (249 miles) in just five minutes of charging.

During a live stream event at the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China, BYD said mass production of the new technology would “completely solve users’ range anxiety when travelling”.

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BYD is the best-selling brand in China, accounting for roughly a third of all EV sales in the country. Last year, the company overtook Tesla to become the world’s largest EV manufacturer, despite a relatively modest market share in Europe – and still no presence in the US.
 
Granville said:
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He's said a lot of batshit crazy stuff, but this is just getting beyond belief. What we're doing to Canada right now is simply insane and makes no sense whatsoever - literally no sense. Canada is never going to agree to become a state, no matter how much pressure Trump 2.0 places on them, and we're rapidly turning a nation with which we have had perfectly good relations - and with whom we share one of the world's longest borders - into an enemy for no good reason at all, unless you consider Trump's ego and bullying and literal insanity to be a "reason." Of course we now have about fifty horrible things all happening at once, but his treatment of Canada alone would get any other POTUS impeached and removed from office. But there are always exceptions for Trump, somehow.

ETA: I should add that there is one logical reason for a president to do this - if they're a Russian asset or doing Russia's bidding (maybe, say, a Putin stooge?) to wreck our alliances and good relationships with even our closest allies. Of course even to suggest that drives his supporters to have the vapors and scream bloody murder, so we can't have that.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
if they're a Russian asset or doing Russia's bidding
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He's an asset. I don't think it's particularly necessary to delineate if he has a handler (I suspect he long has). He's undoing decades of relative international stability and American economic hegemony to acquire more money for himself, and in an attempt to fill the infinite hole in his ego. Putin is simply the worm-tongue.
 

The Vancouver International Auto Show has removed U.S. electric carmaker Tesla from its event this week, saying its primary concern was the safety of attendees and exhibitors.

Tesla has faced numerous protests in Canada recently due to owner Elon Musk's proximity to U.S. President Donald Trump, at a time when Trump has imposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports and publicly made threats of annexation towards the country.

The car manufacturer has seen protests at its dealerships, and its products have been excluded from B.C.'s electric vehicle rebate programs amid the trade war with the U.S.


The latest development comes with the annual Vancouver International Auto Show deciding to exclude Tesla after the carmaker was given multiple opportunities to withdraw voluntarily, according to a statement from the show's executive director.
 
aGDevil2k said:
It's hilarious that anyone hates Canada like that
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Of all the stupid, self-destructive, and crazy things that have already happened under Trump 2.0, what we're doing to Canada may be the most insane. It literally makes no sense whatsoever. Canada threatens no one, we have one of the world's longest peaceful borders with them, they're a major friendly trading partner, and yet Trump is treating them like a pariah state and seems determined to make them a mortal enemy. It's simply crazy, yet here we are. And of course Trumpers will defend this as being perfectly normal and reasonable behavior from the President of the United States.
 
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