When Trump was in office foreign translators got a ton of shit for doing thier job. So many non English speaking people thought the translators were drunk. That made more sense at the time than The President of the United States of America actually saying the things he said. There was also the time he got laughed at by the entire United Nations.

Whoops, replied to wrong comment.

4 years of daily Republican sabotage of the US government. Democrats are not perfect. They are also not the problem at hand.

One of the things wrong with reddit is you are told to report comments. Mods delete and ban the ones they don’t like. They keep the ones they like.

This works well if you agree with mods and agree with approved trolls…

One of the things that went wrong with reddit, is some mods weaponized that rule itself, using it to provide immunity to rule breakers they agreed with by banning people who reported the rule breaking behavior.

I’ve yet to find USA made. But here’s what I know.

https://www.18650batterystore.com/
https://szluyuan.en.alibaba.com/
https://diysolarforum.com/

1st one is out of Georgia, USA. If you sign up for email they will let you know when sales happen. I’ve only ordered cylindrical. I missed a 50% off sale on cylindrical the other day because I decided to go LFP cylindrical but haven’t made it around to buying any yet.

2nd is where I bought my 280ah prismatics direct from China.

3rd has good info and where you catch Amy sometimes. She is the 2nd link. Sometimes people organize a group buy to help with costs.

When I bought from China (awhile back) it was the best deal at the time but more important the reseller is solid (Amy) and came highly recommend from the forums. At the end of the day I wanted cells in good condition and no funny business. If you talk to them they will work with you but they are limited to what they can do. Don’t waste their time. Keep in mind the time zone and language issue. I’m not sure where things are at now since all the new laws as I bought a shit ton before “The War On Green Energy”.

Which country are you looking to buy in?

They use the software. They don’t use the driving dynamics.

There’s models that have expensive driving dynamics though.

It’s like in USA people want pickup trucks and SUV and cheap EVs but we banned cheap EVs.

Or look at people waiting in lines for a cell phone.

China is further ahead with EVs and they’ve been available longer. They are at the point where manufacturers have to do more to attract customers away from competitors.

In USA GM discontinued it’s best selling EV in history.

Yeah but those Chinese EVs made in Mexico sold at a much lower price will not be sold in USA.

People in Mexico already buy Chinese EVs. It’ll just be cheaper.

China has no plans to sell in USA while the laws and tariffs change as soon as the US government finds out Volvo is planning to import a Chinese made EV and sell it for $35,000.

It would be built in Mexico. Just like Equinox and Blazer.

Requirement. Not gimmick.

Battery passports will be mandatory for new electric cars sold in Europe starting in February 2027.

Geeley, Volvo, Polestar are a very tight business group.

Like all BMS track this data. Every EV has a BMS. Most apps let you access this data. It’s up to the EV maker to block this data from EV owners.

This is a great step in the right direction but doesn’t change the beauty of buying used EVs vs ICE. App on phone and OBD scanner. Don’t need a mechanic inspection.

Home battery banks are a thing. EVs also work. We are moving towards virtual power plants and micro grids just that most power grids were not designed for power consumers to also be power generators. They are working through the technical standards like OCPP. …

The large-scale electrification of vehicles, fleets, and marine ports presents a threat to the grid, and as such it is crucial to bring chargers into the equation of energy demand and response systems. The combination of the OCPP with the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) protocol or the Open Smart Charging Protocol (OSCP) turns a charger into a flexibility provider that can react to changes in demand response (DR) within a distributed energy resource (DER) energy ecosystem. Accordingly, an uninformed charging process can be converted into a smart technique, which is able to throttle or postpone a charging process based on currently and locally available grid capacity.

Drive a car, there in 15 minutes.

Take a bus, there in 2 hours. Takes 40 minutes to walk to the fitst bus stop.

Bus does not run after 9pm.

It’s a step in the right direction. Another example of legacy auto copying Tesla. It is a good thing.

Keep in mind that some people buy private party to not go through a dealership.

Hyundai is trying to sell cars on Amazon.

And do you think that inspection has been done at that level for the past 30 years for all consumer electronics? USA buying stuff from China ain’t new.

It’s called chain of custody. Most people use software. Especially phishing.

EVs are not spies. China gets more intel from former government employees than they do from people’s cell phones or TikTok. Indeed is used for spying more than anything because people advertise their experience and makes it super easy for spies to find who to contact.

You don’t see spies sneaking around at night breaking into cars to access info stored on the cars computer. When was the last hack of legacy auto servers with telemetry data?

I have a crazy idea, hang on with me here.

USA : So you want to sell cars in the number 2 car market?

China : Sure.

USA : But what about all the spying you want to do?

China : We don’t want to spy on drivers.

USA : Bullshit.

China : OK how about this. We build a car with no capability of spying. EV with 100kwh, USB port, and big screen. It would be super low priced and undercut legacy auto because they cannot make one.

USA : No. And now that you mention it we are bumping up tariffs just in case.

If spying is the issue then like safety it can go through security certification as well as crash safety certification. But I don’t think spying is the real issue at hand here. I have an ebike with Chinese electronics, motor, and batteries. Pretty sure it doesn’t spy on me and yet it is still highly usable for transportation.

If people want spying capability they can buy the more expensive option from legacy auto. After decades and decades of blocking EVs this is just delay to get legacy auto onboard with EVs. It’s a bad idea.

Pretty much. Anyone that has been following EV knows this is not news. Still nice to articles talking about it for the people who are not up to speed.

BI does have some good articles.