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People downvoting this inconvenient truth the same ones who accuse others of being propagandists.

I’m in China right now, ama.

Here’s a random bike I saw a couple hours ago

The primers are the only part that people don’t regularly manufacturer at home.

Smokeless and hopefully black powder don’t explode, they just burn quickly. The primer is a shock-sensitive explosive tho.

Biden implementing Trump’s dogshit policies is good actually

-lemmy libs downvoting you, probably

It was fine when all cylinders felt like firing.

Nobody would say “I wouldn’t buy a Cybertruck, they’re so cheap”, if they did, you’d probably go “Haha they’re like 6 figures new!”, thinking the person assumed that because Teslas look cheap they actually are.

My first car’s engine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northstar_engine_series#L47

It does, and its not a plugin.

youtube.com/watch?v=2SyONV_EruQ

Tldr, the ICE engine produces barely enough torque to move the car from a standstill while producing enough hp to charge the batteries, and letting the much more powerful electric engines do the work, whereas previous hybrids don’t go all-in on efficiency, letting the engine provide an appreciable amount of torque to the wheels.

An expensive product can’t be cheap. It can be cheaply made, but a cheap expensive thing is an oxymoron.

Assuming you’re esl:

Cheap doesn’t mean low quality, it means low price, which can imply low quality, but it doesn’t work if the thing’s not also cheap.

You could call US cars cheaply-made junk.

Cheap junk?? American cars are very expensive junk.

Say what you want about GM, they didn’t have to put the same V8 into pretty much everything, and now that they don’t, how are teenagers going to get their hands on a 4L V8 so detuned it makes the same power as an engine 1/3 the size for like $4000 that was only ever driven by grandma?

Yes and no? The reason for that marketing is that they can sell pickups and SUVs at way higher margins because they’re seen as luxurious. Because they have higher margins, every non-pickup sold represents a pickup or SUV not sold to the car company and dealerships. This is dumb as shit, but its how business types think.

The SUV version with the same engine gets 50 mpg, but costs 60% more.

Theres a hybrid here in China, Geely Emgrand, that gets 104 mpg hwy and costs 13K USD.