Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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EV Tax Credit Likely to End Dec. 31, Effectively Increasing Prices Up to 28%. See How Popular EVs are Impacted. (fuelarc.com)

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The tax credit in the USA would end December 31st, 2025. Here’s what that means.

TL;DR: EV cars & SUVs will face an average 16% effective price increase, with the lowest cost model up more than 28%, if the law goes into effect as written.

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[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Knobs and buttons are nowadays similar in cost to just plonking in a screen and putting all the controls there. That is why manufacturers are doing it not just because it 'feels premium'.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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I've never worked for an auto maker. I am a computer engineer (BS in Electrical and Computer engineering) though. While earning my degree I developed the hardware and software that served as a battery management computer in an electric car for a student competition. I currently write software tools for hardware engineering.

I say all that to say this: on the BOM, yes, a touch screen may be cheaper. However, you cannot even complete the BOM for discrete components without doing at least a MVP sort of UI development pass. With a touch screen, you can just do the physical design around it, and kick the UI design can down the road.

All kinds of fuckery can happen from there, including understaffing development of UI, poor quality control of code, and just plain inexperienced decisions in a relatively new landscape for many software developers. 'Just turn it on and off' isn't an option for your dashboard when it goes blank at 70mph on the highway.

Just give me reliable knobs and dials. This is a machine, not jewelry.