https://xcancel.com/AnnaDeMilanese/status/2075621119663452248
Top tier analysis from this German expert in geopolitics and military strategy.
Ignoring the fact it’s typical unfalsifable orthodoxy bullshit, why are they even gloating about it? If Russia really become more dependant on China, it means their main enemy became more powerful and Russia itself harder to imperialise.
Sad seeing what neoliberalism has done to post Soviet Russia but I’m glad China is becoming more powerful.
If the EV dealerships are empty it’s a sign that nobody can afford EVs, if the EV dealerships are full, it’s a sign that they’re suffering inflated fuel pricesWestern media:
Norway buying evs = example
Russia, Cuba and China buying evs = coutries are cooked
Today I looked up a list of current gas prices in Europe. While most countries were over EUR 2 per litre, Russia was EUR 0.8 something per litre, having the cheapest gas in Europe. It could be that official prices are being kept artificially low by the evil scheming regime while the black market flourishes, it could be the numbers were outdated, it could be the source was simply lying — or it could be that Russia is an oil producing country with an abundance of fossil fuels for the domestic market.
have those prices risen a little bit recently? i could have sworn it was way lower at one point. by comparison, that’s a bit more than $3 per gallon, which is low but not unreasonably low by US standards. obviously nothing about this discounts your comment or makes the OP any less ai-hallucinated but europe always had expensive gas anyway.
Gas is somehow fucking 3.50 a gallon near me and I’d still give my left nut if it meant being able to buy a Chinese EV at actual chinese prices. Thanks, Joe Biden, for that 100% tariff! Thanks, highway safety losers, for lying and saying BYD cars are unsafe!
All I’m seeing here is that Russia is getting access to great Chinese EV’s and America isn’t
Common America L
America has so many Ls it’s spelled Americalllll now.
Amerikkkalllll
Just re-read Masses, Elites and Rebels and then saw this. Lol
“chatGPT, write me a tweet explaining why russia is going to collapse in 10 days”
The Russian economy has been only weeks from collapse for the past 4 years
those FOOLS are reducing their dependence on FOSSIL FUELS
Russia’s fuel crisis is so bad that a mom and her baby waited in line for 18 hours to get gas — ‘Are we in the Soviet Union?’
“I was horrified: Are we in the Soviet Union now where you had to get coupons to buy sausage?” Sadovnikova, a 26-year-old who works in social media, told the Times.
26 y/o lol. Every time I see that I do the math in my head. 2026 - 26 = 2000. Never quite make it back to 1991 or before.
We had someone running for city council on a platform of preventing communism because she knew what communism was like since she was adopted by an american family (Romania) in 1995. She is 34 y/o
I don’t get it. Is she complaining that the USSR never fully abolished the commodity form and getting sausage required you to make an exchange?
I was baby when the USSR was kicking around and all I remember from that time is the Berlin wall and some rumors and gossip about nuclear war, maybe, some day. So to be only 34 and be like “uh yeah I lived in the soviet union” is fool shit.
Russia doesnt need others for nothing. China too, if needed.
If NK can with a very small territory, imagine big countries
I saw some clickbait thumbnail about how Ukraine just won the war and seized all of Crimea and even much of Russia. Everyone just trying to pray nonsense into existence
You know how you can look at someone, the way they carry their body and face, and determine “this person is not as smart as they think they are.”
It’s bad when objectively good things happen, actually.
Don’t EVs generally suck in the cold?
Don’t EVs generally suck in the cold?
Yes, but it’s a stereotype that Russians only live in areas where’s “it’s cold”. If you look at population densities/distributions of Russia, you’ll find that they live pretty much the same latitudes as other European countries.
That big blog towards the left is Moscow, the largest urban agglomeration in all of Europe. Aside from St. Petersburg (~5 million people), pretty much all the big urban agglomerations are on the same latitude or more southern than Moscow. And Moscow is on the same latitude as Copenhagen and Edinburgh. Yes it gets a little colder there in winter, but that’s just 2-3 months. No reason why EVs wouldn’t work in Russia.
20-30ish % efficiency drop in capacity IIRC and, model depending, they’ve designed ways to mitigate it.
Could be better could be worse I guess.
While using it. But when you’re not using it the battery still has to be kept warm. Unless you’re parking in a heated )or just insulated) garage you’re still getting that loss of energy. In extreme colds you basically need to keep it plugged in to some sort of power. But that’s not much different from a gas or diesel car.
From what I’ve read the newer ones charge more easily and last longer in the cold than older ones did. I’d love to hear from someone with some experience though. I don’t know how many Hexbears are running around with newish Chinese EVs in cold climates for comparison though.
New ones are equipped with heat pumps to efficiently keep the battery at temp, but the battery is the thing powering the heat pump and heat pumps are a lot worse at heating than cooling.
Regardless, EVs don’t uniquely suck in the cold. ICE engines also lose a bunch of efficiency and range in cold weather, that’s just the name of the game.
