• Yaztromo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Likely well deserved — but still unfortunate. The EV space only benefits from more options and more competition.

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      Competition is great, a company that can’t produce a quality product and ships a CAR with beta level software that can’t update OTA is NOT competition.

      The auto industry is highly unfavorable to startups, the competition you want will come from the old ICE OEMs.

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      11 months ago

      My wife was thinking between the Rivian s3 and the Fisker as our next vehicle.

      This makes me sad to hear.

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    and then abruptly cut its price so it could quickly get rid of existing inventory.

    Why would anybody buy a new car that has no future of warranty or parts availability?

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      11 months ago

      You can buy like 2-3 for the price of one. If you didn’t need to worry about software issues it would be a good purchase.

      If you’re looking for a good chassis and powertrain with no need for anything g else it might make sense.

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        11 months ago

        Someone will wait for them to go bankrupt first. Poach any staff they need, and leave the rest to unemployment.

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          Well, they’ll certainly get bought for pennies for sure. My guess is that someone will offer BEFORE the bankruptcy, because nobody wants the extra admin overhead and cost of dealing with a subsidiary in bankruptcy. That’s why the company is putting out PR in the first place. Kind of like a “Make an offer now before it gets worse” kind of thing to any interested parties.

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            If you let them go bankrupt first then you can buy cheaper, and don’t need to let go of a bunch of surplus employees. I think it’ll be about the bottom line. I guess it all depends on the price and any likely competition for the purchase.

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                If they’ve gone bankrupt and sold their office space and laid off their staff then it’s definitely not going to cost the same.

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    Surprise surprise. The CEO of a company I used to work for migrated to Fisker a good 10 years ago. By migrated I mean he injected a shit CEO who then ran down the company into bankruptcy and sold the pieces. This seems appropriate somehow. I mean the guy was alright, it’s just that the other junk CEO fucked up the company. Sort of like Google do no evil meets “hey you’re running out of the 15gb so I’m deleting your shit next month” CEO.

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      Friend, I’ve read this three times and still have no idea wtf you’re trying to say.

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        Good company before fiskar screwed over by bad CEO. CEO then goes to fiskar at different role but fiskar also bankrupts. Do you not see a pattern? LOL… I see patterns.

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      Sounds like the same page as injected C-levels pushing Precision-Scheduled-Railroading at railroads with a massive boost to share value via slashed labor pools. 2 years later when labor can’t support operations and the company gets rekt, the new C-levels eject with a shiny parachute and dumped stocks.

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    Why isn’t adapting ICEs into EVs a thing? Why more lithium-based ewaste with build-int obsolescence?

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      lithium-based ewaste

      That’s propaganda. Lithium ion batteries can be well recycled. First second life as static energy storage, then broken down into materials and which are then reused. Around 98% of the materials can be recycled.

      with build-int obsolescence

      Batteries can be replaced. Nio makes it super easy, other manufacturers require one day at a repair garage. Overall way fewer parts suffer from degradion from use in EVs than ICE cars.

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        Disposable vapes put more lithium into landfills than EVs. Everyone throws their vape in the trash, nobody throws their EV battery module in the trash

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        Overall way fewer parts suffer from degradion from use in EVs than ICE cars.

        That’s only because an EV has less moving parts. And yes, there is built-in obsolescence in any modern car, ICE or otherwise.

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      Adapting is very labor intensive, so very expensive. Somewhere between $20.000 and $65.000 depending on the car. They do that for old timers where somebody is willing to pay for it for the love of the car to keep it running when the engine is busted. But with that price tag, you can just as well buy a second hand or even a new EV.

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        So yay landfills? So caring for the environment is only important when it’s cheap?

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          caring for the environment is only important when it’s cheap?

          Lots of people even pay ridiculous amounts of money to look manly and strong in a big truck and pay even more to roll coal with it instead of spending money to make things more environmental friendly.