Employment law differs outside the US.

Being forced to sign an indemnity clause of that type is illegal and/or unenforceable in most western countries, and discovery of IT records is quite sophisticated.

Having said that, your general thrust of “it is highly unlikely” is certainly true. Someone has to have some basis for starting a suit, fishing expeditions are rarely allowed.

The C suite are rarely stupid enough to put that sort of thing in writing. It’s a conversation, no record.

Although the irony is with wfh that might be a vid conv that could get an AI auto transcript if they forget to turn it off

Iirc but cant be arsed to check, 3 models - base (rwd) mid range (awd) and premium (awd with a bigger battery)

I had many hopes about Starmer, all of which have been dashed.

We have sufficient evidence of his spineless flip flopping like a wind puppet.

Actual footage of Starmer & cabinet

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t7wIkkJNTUQ

They’re still trying to appease the right wing extremists

While true, Starmer has repeatedly shown that he is spineless, so the most proximate explanation is “fear of conflict”

Thank you so much for the quick reply, I have somehow managed to totally break the installation altogether (it’s now bootlooping), so I’ll kill it recreate and try the above and report back.

Much appreciated

Well the wheels fall off, that’s not ideal. (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM)

Other than that it has poor battery size for the cost, slow charging, and poor efficiency (burns more kW per mile/km).

There are more criticisms, but they’re the big ones. It is just not a good EV.

And the wheels really did fall off initially, they had to do a recall. Was a design error.

Now recalls happen very often to all companies but for straight up safety issues they’re rare. They tend to be a lot smaller issues.

The thing with the wheels though is just indicative of how little care they took with it, Toyota are renowned for quality, sure they’re boring designs but they’re built to last right ? Well this one seems to be been designed by the work experience kid and a punishment detail who clearly didnt want to be on a BEV.

Errm read the article and don’t see any mention of Bambu - what did they do ?

Most West European countries have been at around 25-30% EV sales with remainder hybrids or ICE.

So up 50% implies up 12.5-15% of share of total volume (500k), so ICE is down by the same share. So about 60-75K fewer ICE out of the total 500k vehicles

Norway was already about 90% EV so the switching line is misleading there. EV / ICE shares were roughly static over last couple of years last I looked. Anyone in Norway still buying ICE must have a good reason given the incentives.

Edit just reread. 500k is total EVs sold for first quarter, so adjust above accordingly. So if 330k ish is normal pre Iran, then a million a quarter is total, etc etc

At a 30 sec glance at your history and based on your reference to Renaults in Oz then first question - WTF - it’s 3am over there, go to bed !

Then 2nd question, what exactly are you lacking in the way of small car options ? Another 30 sec dig suggests Oz has any number of small BEVs available all of the usual culprits from China, Korea and Europe are available (as they are in most countries, Canada being 1 exception for a few more months, and obviously the US).

https://www.cars24.com.au/car-guide/best-selling-bev-models-australia-2025/

Nissan Leaf, MG4 and BMW iX1 are not exactly F150s - they’re all reasonable sized hatches.

Yes there are plenty of people driving large cars in Oz (I’m from there originally) and they’re now feeling the pain of the fuel prices, it will shape their behaviour, particularly the city folk driving Ford Rangers etc without ever taking them off road.

If I’ve guessed wrong on the country whatever. There’s very few countries outside of North America that don’t have small and medium BEVs easily available

nobody seems to be thinking about all electric small cars, or even normal width cars,

Hey ? There’s dozens, if not hundreds of them, Chinese, European, Korean…

at least where I live

Oh. In the USA huh ? Damn, shame about your govt blocking them all. Maybe you’ll change things up at the mid terms, good luck with it.

Yeah. Spot on. And the Busy Forks not only has an awful name, not only has awful styling, but it is an extraordinarily bad EV by any measure. E-waste indeed

Seems a fair conclusion, certainly it is warmer in London UK than London Ontario !

Good these are companies that fought the transition to EVs every step of the way. Toyota in particular. Which was ironic after releasing the Prius

And how do you know these are people you can trust ? What is their experience ?

You are asserting the reported first hand account is false or misleading based on unspecified inspecific alternative reports that you’re not sourcing.

There’s a word/acronym for that behaviour, it is called FUD.

As someone who has lived in both the US & China (i am from neither) you’re drinking too much Kool-Aid and not applying enough critical thinking

London (UK) has been successfully running BYD EV buses for years with no major issues. They’re cheaper than the diesels to run and quieter. Not sure why Canada had so much trouble.

I suspect that will depend on how brown the driver is…

Given the enshittification of the BBC I’d say journalist wangled a free ticket to the car show, was desperately trying to find the hook to write the story on, and asked the BYD rep something nigh on insulting like

“How can BYD be profitable when they are locked out of the world’s biggest car market ?”

And given they’re not allowed to say “We’re already doing just fine bitch, we don’t need to kiss the orange fascists taint” then you get that carefully diplomatic quote

BYD doesnt sell cars in the US according to the article so no, I don’t think BYD is spying on you.

However that other post you’re thinking of was possibly the one about the US manufacturers being forced to build in the spyware by the US govt…

Kinda the opposite to your direction of travel in tge post it seems to me ?

Personal experience from your visits there ?