Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1.  @alanjameson8664  Cars are not phones anyhow. There's a shift going on which is a time when values get shaken up and it's true that Nokia responded badly to the fact that the game it was good at playing had new rules but it's not the same. There's no app-store really, and that is a very critical part of why Nokia got into trouble and the market could support only 2 systems at most. Phones are no longer about making calls and to have the wrong OS is to be locked out of the magic but for cars I don't think that is really true.
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  2. Mercedes just bought YASA - that's a very great move for them as that's a company with great motor technology and you could say that the problem is solved for Mercedes. It seems a bit strange to suggest that the entire world has so few clever electrical engineers that the established players won't be able to buy what they need. Just as a side note, I don't think they have been really that dependent on ICE engines to distinguish themselves - I would always buy Japanese for reliability for example - so I think they faced that problem long ago.
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  3. YASA motors existed for quite a while before Mercedes bought them. They're in various products already including electric aircraft.
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  4. History repeats itself but not the same way. I see people ripping out Huawei products - so perhaps they will own the rest of the world but not here. They don't seem to have much foreign competition on their home ground but the Chinese car makers do.
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  5. That would be a mistake - they need to find a price that controls demand enough to match their production capacity - otherwise they will miss out on money that they could have had to build more factories with.
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  6.  @alexd302  ah, I think there was a misunderstanding. I was trying to say that giving the id4 the same deal that Tesla got in the US is normal and Tesla will benefit in the EU from similar subsidies.
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  7. ...and why the obsession with acceleration? There seems to be a lot of status involved.
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  8.  @allisterbullock213  Well, that suggests that high acceleration isn't really needed by most people - it's there to give VW a higher profit margin car that some people will buy because they can. I don't like the idea of making acceleration a point of competition in EVs though - efficiency maybe but acceleration leads us to nothing really valuable to net0.
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  9. It's hard to see the disadvantage in having large amounts of cash from ICE sales to invest in EV - except that its about replacing something profitable and paid for with something new that requires much more investment.
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  10.  @donjohnstone3707  I can see that possibility but I don't think it's been made clear that they would actually be better off if their ICE plants magically vanished tomorrow.
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  11.  @donjohnstone3707  that's because it will be illegal in many countries to produce ice vehicles in 2030.
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  12. .....and VW? Uses Linux. Based on the open source Yocto system where Tesla is based on buildroot.
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  13.  @LinuxGalore  how can you ignore Linux? They use Qt for their GUI for example and must use C++ at some point for that reason so they're using a the gnu or apple c++ compilers. I haven't come across any company where open source is not used as much as possible because why write code you don't have to? What is so different about VW by comparison?
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  14.  @LinuxGalore  there is a large software team in Germany for VW which is being built as I understand it by hiring and also by buying smaller companies.
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  15. Porche Taycans will have better handling than a Kia probably and be nicer to drive around corners.
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  16.  @MegaWilderness  Rimac has its fanboys but Tesla is American so some nationalism is mixed in.
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  17. I've tried the buttons and I think that most of the complaining about it is from fans of other car makers because it didn't bother me at all.
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  18. in-wheel motors are a thing already and cars like the lightyear 0 use them. Protean makes them too. Like everything there's some price and a lot of advantages.
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  19. I imagine that foreigners subsidising US cars in their markets suits you fine.
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  20.  @alexd302  .....??? Subsidies are happening in almost every EU country for example. Including Germany where the ID.4 comes from. Want to start a trade war?
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