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They should have said it like Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, "We will bury you."

Only time will tell.

 

Not quite the same without a shoe bang on the podium....


(*) Yeah.
I know....they were two separate things, but the mental picture of a Khrushchev banging a donated West German shoe on a podium and shouting "We will BURY you!" is seared into the collective imagination of an aging generation, and besides.....NOBODY really teaches history these days.....

@ solid state batteries...
We'll see.

Apple pretty much developed today's smart phone, while Androids democratized them.

What this means to the every-person is that you can get a $200 'Droid that's over 90-percent as good as a $1200 iPhonethingy........AND YET.......


....they still sell quite a few $1200 iPhonethingies.....

 

So Toyota said to Tesla, "We will crush you"? If that was an official Toyota spokesman, and Toyota thinks their solid state batteries are superior to the new one announced by Tesla, they're well within their right to say so. Why editorialize the titles?

 

Easy.
It's called "Click Bait"

It differentiates, for example, a journalist from a tabloid reporter.

Oh wait.....that's probably NOT the best example.....

 

Hmm. Perhaps my browser's search function isn't working right. I did a search for the word "crush" on the Torque News page. It was there twice. Once in the title and once in a comment.

But, if the expectations come true, it sounds very Apple-ish, kind of like the iPhone when it came out and now the M1 SoC that's powering the blazing fast entry level laptop I'm using right now.

 

toyota hype getting so tiresome. they used to be tesla to gm, now they are gm to tesla

 

I'm one of those for whom 90% is good enough. I have a $200 phone and my wife a $250 phone and, for the things we do, they are more than good enough and I'll replace them in 5 years god willing and the virus allowing. Never found a reason to pay an Apple tax for the best/fastest/mostest.

I don't buy $60k+ cars either (except used Porsches for $20k).

Do I think Apple could build a car and an ecosystem? Sure do. But it will take time and partners. And the industry doesn't stand still in the meantime. Do I think Elon is doing the same sort of research Apple might be doing? Sure, he isn't stupid.

 

You can't get tired of Toyota hype if Toyota didn't create the hype. Only thing they've officially said, I believe, is that they will have a prototype vehicle with solid state battery next year. They didn't say, "please line up to order." That's not hype. They very clearly said prototype.

Some companies have taken orders for a product 3 years prior to the date they were able to deliver it. I don't recall anybody being up in arms.

 

... and if that rag works the same way as ordinary newspapers, then the headline was written by someone other than the author of the article. And in newspapers, that page compositor usually doesn't have the time to actually read the articles being headlined, only doing a quick skim. This sometimes makes for a significant disconnect between them.

 

Under their inventory of hydrogen fuel vehicles ... with low mileage.

Bob Wilson

 

Actually LOL’d at “ordinary newspaper”

 

For years, now, I've been noticing that the "news outlets" let out almost no news at all. It's almost exclusively opinions and reports of who allegedly said what, all carefully selected to steer public opinion in the desired direction. I don't listen much to the radio except while in the car, but happened to catch a few minutes of Rush Limbaugh the other day and he said words to the effect that the news doesn't report the news anymore. And I thought, "Did you just now catch on?"

One of my friends recently pointed out that if you don't read or listen to the news you'll be uninformed. If you do read or listen to the news, you'll be misinformed.

 

All depends what sources you use.
I do agree that many so called ‘news’ sources are more opinion than news.
Accuracy also varies.

I like these type of spectrum illustrations.

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Media-Bias-Chart-6.0_Licensed.pdf

 

That's pretty good. Of the sources with which I'm reasonably familiar, it seems to put them pretty close to where I'd put them.