US carmakers, backing away from EVs and basically only making SUVs + MASSIVE trucks, so they can force Americans to pay outrageous amounts for new cars, are going to destroy their industry (and the planet).

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

US carmakers, backing away from EVs and basically only making SUVs + MASSIVE trucks, so they can force Americans to pay outrageous amounts for new cars, are going to destroy their industry (and the planet).

Meanwhile in Europe...
https://electrek.co/guides/kia-ev2/

https://electrek.co/2025/07/22/hyundai-ioniq-2-affordable-ioniq-5-sibling-images/

[apbblue@thepit.social]

@susankayequinn That Kia is really cute! 🥰

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@susankayequinn a friend, recently returned from Brazil, had high high praise for the EVs from China which he saw (and rode in).

[highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social]

@susankayequinn Take a look at the new Atto 3, it's an amazing EV that the US won't get, at least not any time soon.

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

Meanwhile in SE Asia...

"The Ora Good Cat (Chinese: 欧拉好猫; pinyin: Ōulā Hǎomāo) is a battery electric hatchback produced by Great Wall Motor"

IT IS A GOOD CAT!!!!

[seanbala@mas.to]

@susankayequinn

I am seeing more electric cars in New Delhi which is surprising me. In India, electric cars have green colored plates so they are identifiable.

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@seanbala I remember when, in Illinois, electric cars had plates that started with EV and then were numbered after that. I kept my plate, one of the early ones with "EV 2019" as my license plate. Then I remember when they had to stop doing that because we had so many they ran out of numbers...

[firlefanz@writing.exchange]

@susankayequinn

Unfortunately, Germany's carmakers are not much better. Most of our big car companies build SUVs and hold back on EVs.

And our chancellor fights against EVs every time he can.

It makes me very angry.

[wellschmaltz@pnw.zone]

@susankayequinn Did you see this little cutie? Great example of appropriate technology, I think. It's like a climate-controlled golf cart https://electrek.co/2026/03/20/the-uss-only-true-street-legal-electric-micro-car-just-got-big-upgrades/

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@wellschmaltz I love the microcars! I hadn't seen this one, so thanks for the tip!

[tanekrune@mstdn.ca]

@susankayequinn
As a cyclist, I'm happy to see more smaller cars on the road that are less likely to mangle me.