if you pay for service you should receive some guarantees it is your money, it is crazy that there is no cool-off period where you get banned like this even by mistake or by Apple deciding they do not want to offer a service anymore and allow you to take out your stuff before fully shutting down.
They switched from having grills and some sort of food preparation to pulling stuff from plastic drawers the cooks don’t anymore cook anything they just pull in the food into reheat oven stale cold food goes in stale hot food comes out. It lost all the taste, you can go to Burger King and get a taste of the grilled patties
The reason we went with 4y old leaf and not brand new e-up was that it looked like a coffin made out of matchbox. Compared to leaf which is still simple and conventional but has much more space to absorb impact and full of safety features.
Well....if you don't like the look you don't like the look. But it used to have full 5 stars on NCAP testing until the forward collision avoidance system was made mandatory and it's was never fitted with one by VW. For us the Leaf was a lot more expensive than the e-Up with less range so I wasn't interested.
I think they have it figured out and they are just stalling the introduction not because they lack technology but they still own a lot of stake in conventional solutions, they will probably peel away a line of cars soon for western markets that are EV and reduce sales of Corollas/Yaris with petrol engines but they will continue providing pickups/suvs for other markets. It is just they cannot slot a line of EV on top of all of the existing models and variants as they can still reap the reward of the investment they made for conventional cars. They would spread themselves too thin with a line of EVs on top of current portfolio
Not a single car company, no matter how big or innovative had 'EV just figured out' and could easily just mass produce them. VW is the size of Toyota and was and is nowhere near that.
The idea that Toyota, a company that has nothing but stalled on EV and fought EV regulation at every step has internally already perfected every aspect of EVs is just nonsense.
Their initial products are not competitive in price or performance (or anything really).
Some people have really gone in the deep end with Toyota and believe that Toyota can not actually make mistakes. It all some 4D galaxy brain strategy. Its impossible that they simply bet on the wrong technology, had stubborn leadership, under invested in EV (and battery production) and are now paying the price. Of course not its all brilliant strategy. They fired their CEO, despite his amazingly brilliant strategy. They also invested billions in hydrogen with virtually no results just to throw people so they don't know that Toyota has already perfected EVs. And they invested billions in their solid state batteries, that will be in mass production by 2022 (what year is it?).
There is literally 0 evidence that Toyota has 'figured out' EV. And there is a literal mountain of evidence suggesting the opposite.
This shows how bad we are at wasting resources running AC smart appliances things even when we are not home, I remember going on holiday and parents switching entire house off - electricity, gas, water. We would plan to eat stuff from fridge and freezer and whatever was left give it to relatives. When we came back after a week or two we had spotless freezer ready to go for another year till we do the same thing next summer. We weren’t around there was no waste of running appliances. First world problems like this just make you realize those aren’t real problems
Turning off appliances is a very small savings. Average fridge uses $0.50/day. Modern fridges have gotten much more efficient and have automatic defrosters. Throwing out any food wipes out any savings.
