As another said, That is very specific, can’t say I’ve heard of that before, but not a Prius connoisseur, However is right regardless when it comes to ICE engines (internal combustion engine). An engines efficiency goes down over time, there is a lot of mechanical movement and a lot of its components decay overtimes, bearings, piston rings, springs, valves, gaskets, just everything in the engine is not a “lifetime” part. In 20 years, if you on average drive 2 hours a day, 5 days a week at 2,000rpm, just 1 piston has done 41,600,000 strokes, crankshaft has spun 20,800,000 rotations, Camshaft has spun 10,400,000 rotations as has the intake and exhaust cam opened/closed, fuel has been injected into the engine and exploded. It comes at a cost that would honestly be similar to the lost of charge in an EV battery, however the EV battery will lose its charge at a same rate even if “neglected”. An engines overall efficiency over time also correlates to the maintanace you put in. Late in a oil service can cause problems causing poor efficiency, as can using the wrong oil, or using the wrong octane/cetane rating fuel/diesel, poor engine cooling, etc, a lot of maintenance is required, and you’ll still have poor efficiency after 20 years, at least with a battery, as long as you aren’t constantly discharging it completely then filling it, and it is being cooled correctly, it should consistently lose its charge over time.

But that has been cars since forever. The Nissan 400z is just a 370z with some updates, the G3 Subaru imprezza moved their manufacturing to another plant and made them “wide body” but is the exact same, look up the MQB platform from Volkswagen and the list is endless. Same with engines, Volvo modular series of engines has been in production since early 90’s and still is to this day with a some changes, and again with Subaru and their EJ series of engines or GM with the infamous LS series. Putting a new body on a old chassis is just how it goes, because simply, it is cost effective, and if it works, why spend the billions in starting from scratch, put the money in a new designs and fix other issues

Yes and No. Jetta although being a VW model, it is also the creation of a joint venture between VWAG and FAW group, Covering only Russia, China and Iran. The brand name was chosen based on all of the car line ups originated from just being rebadged Jettas, but has since expanded to other platforms

Of all the Volkswagen Group brands (Audi, Bentley, Cupra, Jetta, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, Škoda) Skoda is top tier. Octavia RS wagons are one of my favorite current production cars on the road

Work for a somewhat expensive automotive brand and yes it is very common. We have cars from $60k to over $400k and beyond, and they all are glued together everywhere you look, that or plastic clips, very little is actually bolted on. Sometimes because in a crash it is better that a piece breaks and fly’s off then to stay mounted to the car, and in (most) other cases, probably for cost reasons. But it is a common thing, and has been for a long while, and if executed right, it is tried and true, however if you don’t have good quality control and workers who don’t care, they’re not gonna mount pieces right, and create a hazard

Can be for a few different reasons, but most likely is to aid in dissipating heat from the brakes and aerodynamics. Considering this is an EV, they are usually much heavier, and with more mass, means you need bigger brakes, and bigger brakes means more heat. There should be either a duct in the front grille, or under the car that scoops air behind the wheel well, which cools off the brakes at speeds, and this duct you see from the outside gets air out of the wheel well.

Another additional side effect can also be that scooping air out from under the car and to the outside means you have a low air pressure zone under the car, which helps create down force, which makes for better cornering speed and highspeed grip.

For what it’s worth, being a IG copy isn’t a bad thing. If they’re trying to get the IG crowd over, best to give the users something familiar to keep them using pixelfed. Having other apps is a nice feature for those like us who want it

Not that I use it often, But Pixelix on F-Droid has dark mode, and I do prefer it’s appearance compared to the official Pixelfed app or PixelDroid, that is just personal preference though

👏RAIN👏X👏

genuinely an amazing product, don’t even need wipers in the rain if you have it applied. And last a decently long time. Will advise though don’t use the window washer additive for newer cars, can cause the sensor to always think it is empty

Um what? From the article you posted

“he and the ambulance were traveling the same direction”

“The ambulance attempted to make a right turn onto another street”

They were both traveling on the right side of the road of (based on the supplied pictures from the articles) a two way, single lane each way street, and the ambulance turned right and didn’t cross any traffic, thus the Ambulance didn’t make a illegal turn.

The Ambulance should be at fault, and the Fire and Rescue should be covering charges as the ambulance driver wasn’t being well aware enough to make the turn, but at the same time Hoesch, The cyclists, also should have given way.

I’m all for less cars on the road, but don’t go throwing information that isn’t true, please.

Cool concept, but it is all just dicks, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and the “Cool S” symbol. Maybe today the internet wasn’t beautiful

BYOD, as in Bring You Own Device, hence buying and importing phones that you wouldn’t typically see on a Telstra plan.

Whether or not a device can actually support VoLTE unfortunately actually has very little to do with what is and isn’t being blocked; even the industry itself doesn’t know what 100% will and won’t be affected, as there are devices that are told to be ready for post 3G shutdown, but in testing they are not emergency VoLTE ready, and so will not be able to make emergency calls after the shutdown, and no matter what you put on the phone, if the IMEI number isn’t on a compatible registry, that phone will be blocked.

I do highly suggest reading the article, as it does go more into depth on everything (as well as the Change.org petition). I am “tech aware,” to a degree; however, I am not at all well knowledged, just something I genuinely very much feel needs to be shared.

I’m late to all of this going on but now am very much impacted by it.

The end of the BYOD phones. Using a Xperia 1 V that is now to be near to useless when out, and I am only 1 of 250,000+ people who are gonna be pushed into buying phone directly from telco instead of actually picking phones that suite our interests and needs (as well as OS for those running anything that isn’t adroid or iOS).

I’ve contacted Sony to see if they will comment on the matter, but it is a shame this has happened at all in the first place.

I would recommend anyone to read James Parkers full article on the matter:

https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a#a501

I apologize If this isn’t the right place to post this.

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Not 100% sure if this is what OP was refuting to, but it is on F-Droid using the IzzyOnDroid repo.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.hjiangsu.thunder/

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Juiceboxforyou on YouTube does this for me, watching them gets my drive back for wanting to get my nugget working again.

This video of theirs always get me inspired:

https://youtu.be/TqfXq0Kb5VM

Internet car forums are the only reason my cars are still running. A trove of endless car information to fix things yourself and not let them become obsolete, where to find parts, what new parts fit old chassis, etc. Will forever be grateful for them

My very simple guess is this. It requires more parts, bigger assembly line, overall higher complexity, adds weight, makes the headset more fragile, and so forth, so I’m sure if they can make a design that accommodates the majority of users, it is cheaper to say “good enough” then to design and accommodate for the rest of the potential users

Damn, that is a lot of hate and assumptions all because of a few mods. I know we live in a “fuck cars” movement, but remember it is still some peoples interest, So let the few enjoy their hobbies and let them be passionate about them