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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by PaulWaldman on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:35PM (#32091702)
What do you like better about the Bolt?
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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by rsync on Thursday July 14, 2022 @09:23AM (#32095764)
The thing I like the most about the bolt is that it isn’t a spacecar / tron-mobile.

It’s just a Chevy car … but electric.

As opposed to, for instance, Mercedes or Volvo - e-initiative i-mobiles that are chaotic dumping grounds for futuristic design concepts that nobody asked for.

We don’t want your "electric car" … we just want your car, electric.

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by oblio on Thursday July 14, 2022 @09:47AM (#32096052)
This looks pretty much like your average Mercedes:

https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/vehicles/passenger-cars/eqc...

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by rsync on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:12AM (#32096325)
I was thinking of this:

https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/vehicles/passenger-cars/eqe...

... here's the interior console:

https://media.mercedes-benz.com/article/4faab79f-5c1c-4bcd-b...

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by oblio on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:04PM (#32101439)
Well, the S class is an ICE:

https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/vehicles/passenger-cars/s-c...

The bad news for you is that it's based on release date, not on ICE/EV.

Every car is slowly moving to just screens for controls/gauges.

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