Volvo isn't a startup automaker, but also
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Volvo isn't a startup automaker, but also
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These startup brands basically don't have much of a market outside of big metro areas (e.g. LA, NYC, Atlanta, Seattle) for the first 5-10 years of their life as a result.
02.03.2026 18:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not the case in the US, my local Volvo dealer won't work on Polestars.
02.03.2026 18:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I live in a college town with a rapidly growing population of Rivians, but the closest service center is about 2hr/100mi away.
Polestars and Lucids are still pretty rare, and the closest service centers being 2-5hr away certainly isn't helping.
In theory you barely need to service them as they're EVs but they're brand new cars from brand new companies on brand new platforms; that's bound to have problems.
02.03.2026 18:46 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1The EVs from startup brands like Rivian/Lucid/Polestar interest me immensely but the lack of service center availability is a real con.
02.03.2026 18:45 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0AMERICA YOU LISTEN TO ME, IF YOU'RE NEAR A GAS STATION RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF GAS STATION, GO TO IT RIGHT NOW AND PUMP GAS FOR NO REASON. THEIR GAS IS YOUR GAS AS OF RIGHT NOW.
02.03.2026 03:56 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Man, if my business model was to put a Hemi in everything, I might be slightly concerned.
01.03.2026 17:21 β π 29 π 6 π¬ 5 π 0"Gas should be more expensive" is the only opinion I hold that is controversial in every space, but our rapid consumption of petroleum is leading to our demise & we might need to rip that band-aid off at some point.
01.03.2026 18:25 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cheap gas plays a bigger role in America's treaterlite rot than most realize. It incentivizes gas guzzlers by minimizing their running costs, it's a huge reason fullsize pickup trucks are everywhere here & a core tenet of our car dependency.
01.03.2026 18:20 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
"anti-war president"
(looks inside)
war president
The OP used a tool to force LOW render resolutions with DLSS for this, it's crazy how much it can recover in the upscale with temporal data.
From:
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screenshot from a reddit post showing 4.5% render scale 97p upscaled to 2160p 4K with DLSS vs 97p on its own scaled to 2160p
I assume most people hating on DLSS upscaling in 2026 don't actually have experience with it beyond the first iteration, this shit is magic lol
01.03.2026 17:55 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0the Squidward "I REALLY WISH I WEREN'T LIVING THROUGH A MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENT RIGHT NOW!" button
28.02.2026 15:45 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0BIG MISTAKE text next to a fish, previously a YT thumbnail
forgot to charge my camera before a photoshoot and finished with 2% left
27.02.2026 21:26 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I'll be 24 in a few months but still have my wisdom teeth
27.02.2026 17:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0drifting around corners is cool and awesome and self care vibes. turning normally is so safe core, upstanding citizen core
27.02.2026 03:32 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0BIG fan of the simple gravitational damper used on these saloon doors
26.02.2026 20:20 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0it's me I'm the guy
26.02.2026 17:50 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0shrimp sitting in chair staring at laptop screen
GUY WHO HAS SAT LIKE A SHRIMP FOR 3 DAYS: why does my back hurt???
26.02.2026 17:49 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have no qualms with the Marcus name they went with but Wolfgang would have been CRAZY, I'd be aurafarming as a toddler.
26.02.2026 16:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not only was I almost named Wolfgang but apparently my dad was also almost named Wolfgang???
26.02.2026 15:56 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0took a sharp 90Β° turn at 30mph and immediately spotted a cop
25.02.2026 22:36 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0photo of a modified lifted Mk1 VW Rabbit (Golf) with JACKALOPE side lettering
now THAT'S a Golf
25.02.2026 21:32 β π 61 π 13 π¬ 2 π 1Solid state batteries will make 1000mi range EVs possible but I don't think they'll benefit much from passing the ~500mi range mark. I'd much rather have a 4000lb EV with 400mi range instead of a 4500lb EV with 1000mi range.
25.02.2026 02:43 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discordβs age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.
βThe state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.β
ermmmmm krill yourself
idk why taco bell is so stingy with their dipping sauces when they hand out hot sauce packets like they're nothing.
ask for a few hot sauce packets and you'll get a dozen, but if you ask for a 2nd diablo ranch they just look at you like this
1200lbs more than a Model 3 Performance. 400lbs more than an IONIQ 6N.
It's the same weight as a Lucid Air Grand Touring while being smaller & slower with less range for the same price.
photo of Wall-E our corgi sitting on the couch
he's so precious
20.02.2026 18:29 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0If you use more than 1 mask in Adobe Lightroom with 16GB RAM it does this every 20 seconds
19.02.2026 18:33 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0