#mass market ev

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Is the VW ID2 the new Polo EV for under 25,000 € $ ?

Autogefühl

This is our preview of the upcoming VW ID2 or (maybe) electric Volkswagen Polo. We're taking a look at Exterior, Interior and technology.

[semcoinfratechworld]

Is India's Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Ecosystem Ready to Scale up Mass Adoption?

India is on the brink of a major shift in its automotive industry.  Driven by the global and domestic push towards electric vehicles (EVs), the country’s EV manufacturing ecosystem is showing promise and ambitious growth projections. It shows a clear commitment to sustainable mobility. However, the road to mass adoption is fraught with challenges that need to be addressed if India is to fully capitalize on this opportunity.

Promising Growth Projections

The potential for growth in India’s EV market is enormous. By 2030, EVs could account for over 40 percent of the automotive market, generating a staggering USD 100 billion in revenue. The penetration rates are particularly impressive for two and three-wheelers, where EVs are expected to make up 80 percent of the market. Even for four-wheelers, the projection is significant, with a 50 percent market share anticipated by 2030. These numbers underscore the growing acceptance of EVs in India and the opportunity for the country to become a global leader in sustainable transportation.

Challenges Hindering Scalability

Despite the promising outlook, several hurdles stand in the way of scaling up EV manufacturing to meet mass adoption. These challenges must be addressed if India’s EV ecosystem is to realize its full potential.

High Ownership Costs: One of the most significant barriers to mass adoption is the high cost of owning an EV in India. This is primarily due to the limited charging infrastructure, which makes it difficult for consumers to rely on EVs for their daily commute. Additionally, there are deficits in battery cell production (20-25 percent) and semiconductor chips (40-50 percent), both of which are critical components for EV manufacturing. These shortages drive up the costs, making EVs less accessible to the average consumer.

Import Dependency: India’s reliance on imports for key EV components is another major challenge. Currently, 60-70 percent of battery cells, e-motor magnets, and electronics are sourced from China. Several lithium-ion battery manufacturing equipment suppliers in India are dependent on the import of cells and assembly equipment. This dependency not only creates supply chain vulnerabilities but also raises concerns about the sustainability of scaling up EV manufacturing. To reduce this reliance, India needs to invest in building local capacities for producing these critical components.

Scalability Issues in Local Manufacturing: While there are efforts to boost local manufacturing, many small enterprises in India are struggling to keep up with the growing demand for EV components. These scalability issues are exacerbated by a fragmented supply chain, where small and medium enterprises (SMEs) face coordination challenges that can lead to delays in production and distribution. This fragmentation hinders the efficiency of the entire EV ecosystem.

Lack of Standardization: Another significant challenge is the lack of standardization in EV manufacturing, particularly in battery specifications. This lack of uniformity complicates component sourcing and integration, making it difficult for manufacturers to scale up production quickly and efficiently. Standardization is crucial for streamlining the manufacturing process and ensuring that components are interchangeable and easily available.

Conclusion

India’s EV manufacturing ecosystem is at a critical juncture. While the growth potential is immense, several challenges must be addressed to scale up production and achieve mass adoption. By focusing on local manufacturing, expanding infrastructure, standardizing components, and supporting SMEs, India can overcome these hurdles and position itself as a global leader in electric mobility. The journey ahead is challenging, but with the right strategies and collaborations, India’s EV revolution is not just possible—it’s inevitable.

[oblivioustinygay]

Anyone else designated holder of all produce at the market?

[fatehbaz]

In fact, far more Asian workers moved to the Americas in the 19th century to make sugar than to build the transcontinental railroad [...]. [T]housands of Chinese migrants were recruited to work [...] on Louisiana’s sugar plantations after the Civil War. [...] Recruited and reviled as "coolies," their presence in sugar production helped justify racial exclusion after the abolition of slavery.

In places where sugar cane is grown, such as Mauritius, Fiji, Hawaii, Guyana, Trinidad and Suriname, there is usually a sizable population of Asians who can trace their ancestry to India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere. They are descendants of sugar plantation workers, whose migration and labor embodied the limitations and contradictions of chattel slavery’s slow death in the 19th century. [...]

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Mass consumption of sugar in industrializing Europe and North America rested on mass production of sugar by enslaved Africans in the colonies. The whip, the market, and the law institutionalized slavery across the Americas, including in the U.S. When the Haitian Revolution erupted in 1791 and Napoleon Bonaparte’s mission to reclaim Saint-Domingue, France’s most prized colony, failed, slaveholding regimes around the world grew alarmed. In response to a series of slave rebellions in its own sugar colonies, especially in Jamaica, the British Empire formally abolished slavery in the 1830s. British emancipation included a payment of £20 million to slave owners, an immense sum of money that British taxpayers made loan payments on until 2015.

Importing indentured labor from Asia emerged as a potential way to maintain the British Empire’s sugar plantation system.

In 1838 John Gladstone, father of future prime minister William E. Gladstone, arranged for the shipment of 396 South Asian workers, bound to five years of indentured labor, to his sugar estates in British Guiana. The experiment with “Gladstone coolies,” as those workers came to be known, inaugurated [...] “a new system of [...] [indentured servitude],” which would endure for nearly a century. [...]

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Bonaparte [...] agreed to sell France's claims [...] to the U.S. [...] in 1803, in [...] the Louisiana Purchase. Plantation owners who escaped Saint-Domingue [Haiti] with their enslaved workers helped establish a booming sugar industry in southern Louisiana. On huge plantations surrounding New Orleans, home of the largest slave market in the antebellum South, sugar production took off in the first half of the 19th century. By 1853, Louisiana was producing nearly 25% of all exportable sugar in the world. [...] On the eve of the Civil War, Louisiana’s sugar industry was valued at US$200 million. More than half of that figure represented the valuation of the ownership of human beings – Black people who did the backbreaking labor [...]. By the war’s end, approximately $193 million of the sugar industry’s prewar value had vanished.

Desperate to regain power and authority after the war, Louisiana’s wealthiest planters studied and learned from their Caribbean counterparts. They, too, looked to Asian workers for their salvation, fantasizing that so-called “coolies” [...].

Thousands of Chinese workers landed in Louisiana between 1866 and 1870, recruited from the Caribbean, China and California. Bound to multiyear contracts, they symbolized Louisiana planters’ racial hope [...].

To great fanfare, Louisiana’s wealthiest planters spent thousands of dollars to recruit gangs of Chinese workers. When 140 Chinese laborers arrived on Millaudon plantation near New Orleans on July 4, 1870, at a cost of about $10,000 in recruitment fees, the New Orleans Times reported that they were “young, athletic, intelligent, sober and cleanly” and superior to “the vast majority of our African population.” [...] But [...] [w]hen they heard that other workers earned more, they demanded the same. When planters refused, they ran away. The Chinese recruits, the Planters’ Banner observed in 1871, were “fond of changing about, run away worse than [Black people], and … leave as soon as anybody offers them higher wages.”

When Congress debated excluding the Chinese from the United States in 1882, Rep. Horace F. Page of California argued that the United States could not allow the entry of “millions of cooly slaves and serfs.” That racial reasoning would justify a long series of anti-Asian laws and policies on immigration and naturalization for nearly a century.

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All text above by: Moon-Ho Jung. "Making sugar, making 'coolies': Chinese laborers toiled alongside Black workers on 19th-century Louisiana plantations". The Conversation. 13 January 2022. [All bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[brostateexam]

One of the recent trends on TikTok is an aesthetic called “night luxe.” It embodies the kind of performative opulence one usually encounters at New Year’s Eve parties: champagne, disco balls, bedazzled accessories, and golden sparkles.

“Night luxe” doesn’t actually mean anything. It isn’t a reaction to wellness culture, nor is it proof that partying is “in” again (has partying ever been “out”?). It’s just one of many aesthetic designations for which the internet has contrived a buzzy, meaningless portmanteau. Rest assured that night luxe will likely have faded into irrelevance by the time this article is published, only for another meme-ified aesthetic (i.e., coastal grandmother) to be crowned the next viral “trend.”

The tendency to register and categorize things, whether it be one’s identity, body type, or aesthetic preferences, is a natural part of online life. People have a penchant for naming elusive digital phenomena, but TikTok has only accelerated the use of cutesy aesthetic nomenclature. Anything that’s vaguely popular online must be defined or decoded — and ultimately, reduced to a bundle of marketable vibes with a kitschy label.

Last month, Harper’s Bazaar fashion news director Rachel Tashjian declared that “we’re living through a mass psychosis expressing itself through trend reporting.” There is, I would argue, as much reporting as there is trend manufacturing. No one is sure exactly what a trend is anymore or if it’s just an unfounded observation gone viral. The distinction doesn’t seem to matter, since TikTok — and the consumer market — demands novelty. It creates ripe conditions for a garbage-filled hellscape where everything and anything has the potential to be a trend.

TikTok plucks niche digital aesthetics out of obscurity and serves them up to an audience that might not have known or cared in the first place. While aesthetic components were once integral to the formation of traditional subcultures, they’ve lost all meaning in this algorithmically driven visual landscape. Instead, subcultural images and attitudes become grouped under a ubiquitous, indefinable label of a “viral trend” — something that can be demystified, mimicked, sold, and bought.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate “solutions

This morning (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

There is only one planet in the known universe capable of sustaining human life, and it is rapidly becoming uninhabitable by humans. Clearly, this warrants bold action – but which bold action should we take?

After half a century of denial and disinformation, the business lobby has seemingly found climate religion and has joined the choir, but they have their own unique hymn: this crisis is so dire, they say, that we don't have the luxury of choosing between different ways of addressing the emergency. We have to do "all of the above" – every possible solution must be tried.

In his new book Dark PR, Grant Ennis explains that this "all of the above" strategy doesn't represent a change of heart by big business. Rather, it's part of the denial playbook that's been used to sell tobacco-cancer doubt and climate disinformation:

https://darajapress.com/publication/dark-pr-how-corporate-disinformation-harms-our-health-and-the-environment

The point of "all of the above" isn't muscular, immediate action – rather, it's a delaying tactic that creates space for "solutions" that won't work, but will generate profits. Think of how the tobacco industry used "all of the above" to sell "light" cigarettes, snuff, snus, and vaping – and delay tobacco bans, sin taxes, and business-euthanizing litigation. Today, the same playbook is used to sell EVs as an answer to the destructive legacy of the personal automobile – to the exclusion of mass transit, bikes, and 15-minute cities:

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/10/24/113-dark-pr-with-grant-ennis/

As the tobacco and car examples show, "all of the above" is never really all of the above. Pursuing "light" cigarettes to reduce cancer is incompatible with simply banning tobacco; giving everyone a personal EV is incompatible with remaking our cities for transit, cycling and walking.

When it comes to the climate emergency, "all of the above" means trying "market-based" solutions to the exclusion of directly regulating emissions, despite the poor performance of these "solutions."

The big one here is carbon offsets, which allows companies to make money by promising not to emit carbon that they would otherwise emit. The idea here is that creating a new asset class will unleash the incredible creativity of markets by harnessing the greed of elite sociopaths to the project of decarbonization, rather of the prudence of democratically accountable lawmakers.

Carbon offsets have not worked: they have been plagued by absolutely foreseeable problems that have not lessened, despite repeated attempts to mitigate them.

For starters, carbon offsets are a classic market for lemons. The cheapest way to make a carbon offset is to promise not to emit carbon you were never going to emit anyway, as when fake charities like the Nature Conservancy make millions by promising not to log forests that can't be logged because they are wildlife preserves:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/18/greshams-carbon-law/#papal-indulgences

Then there's the problem of monitoring carbon offsetting activity. Like, what happens when the forest you promise not to log burns down? If you're a carbon trader, the answer is "nothing." That burned-down forest can still be sold as if it were sequestering carbon, rather than venting it to the atmosphere in an out-of-control blaze:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#murder-offsets

When you bought a plane ticket and ticked the "offset the carbon on my flight" box and paid an extra $10, I bet you thought that you were contributing to a market that incentivized a reduction in discretionary, socially useless carbon-intensive activity. But without those carbon offsets, SUVs would have all but disappeared from American roads. Carbon offsets for Tesla cars generated billions in carbon offsets for Elon Musk, and allowed SUVs to escape regulations that would otherwise have seen them pulled from the market:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/#Rat

What's more, Tesla figured out how to get double the offsets they were entitled to by pretending that they had a working battery-swap technology. This directly translated to even more SUVs on the road:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Misuse_of_government_subsidies

Harnessing the profit motive to the planet's survivability might sound like a good idea, but it assumes that corporations can self-regulate their way to a better climate future. They cannot. Think of how Canada's logging industry was allowed to clearcut old-growth forests and replace them with "pines in lines" – evenly spaced, highly flammable, commercially useful tree-farms that now turn into raging forest fires every year:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/16/murder-offsets/#pulped-and-papered

The idea of "market-based" climate solutions is that certain harmful conduct should be disincentivized through taxes, rather than banned. This makes carbon offsets into a kind of modern Papal indulgence, which let you continue to sin, for a price. As the outstanding short video Murder Offsets so ably demonstrates, this is an inadequate, unserious and immoral response to the urgency of the issue:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

Offsets and other market-based climate measures aren't "all of the above" – they exclude other measures that have better track-records and lower costs, because those measures cut against the interests of the business lobby. Writing for the Law and Political Economy Project, Yale Law's Douglas Kysar gives some pointed examples:

https://lpeproject.org/blog/climate-change-and-the-neoliberal-imagination/

For example: carbon offsets rely on a notion called "contrafactual carbon," this being the imaginary carbon that might be omitted by a company if it wasn't participating in offsets. The number of credits a company gets is determined by the difference between its contrafactual emissions and its actual emissions.

But the "contrafactual" here comes from a business-as-usual world, one where the only limit on carbon emissions comes from corporate executives' voluntary actions – and not from regulation, direct action, or other limits on corporate conduct.

Kysar asks us to imagine a contrafactual that depends on "carbon upsets," rather than offsets – one where the limits on carbon come from "lawsuits, referenda, protests, boycotts, civil disobedience":

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/aug/29/carbon-upsets-offsets-cap-and-trade

If we're really committed to "all of the above" as baseline for calculating offsets, why not imagine a carbon world grounded in foreseeable, evidence-based reality, like the situation in Louisiana, where a planned petrochemical plant was canceled after a lawsuit over its 13.6m tons of annual carbon emissions?

https://earthjustice.org/press/2022/louisiana-court-vacates-air-permits-for-formosas-massive-petrochemical-complex-in-cancer-alley

Rather than a tradeable market in carbon offsets, we could harness the market to reward upsets. If your group wins a lawsuit that prevents 13.6m tons of carbon emissions every year, it will get 13.6 million credits for every year that plant would have run. That would certainly drive the commercial imaginations of many otherwise disinterested parties to find carbon-reduction measures. If we're going to revive dubious medieval practices like indulgences, why not champerty, too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champerty_and_maintenance

That is, if every path to a survivable planet must run through Goldman-Sachs, why not turn their devious minds to figuring out ways to make billions in tradeable credits by suing the pants off oil companies?

There are any number of measures that rise to the flimsy standards of evidence in support of offsets. Like, we're giving away $85/ton in free public money for carbon capture technologies, despite the lack of any credible path to these making a serious dent in the climate situation:

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/energy-transition/072523-ira-turbocharged-carbon-capture-tax-credit-but-challenges-persist-experts

If we're willing to fund untested longshots like carbon capture, why not measures that have far better track-records? For example, there's a pretty solid correlation between the presence of women in legislatures and on corporate boards and overall reductions in carbon. I'm the last person to suggest that the problems of capitalism can be replaced by replacing half of the old white men who run the world with women, PoCs and queers – but if we're willing to hand billions to ferkakte scheme like carbon capture, why not subsidize companies that pack their boards with women, or provide campaign subsidies to women running for office? It's quite a longshot (putting Liz Truss or Marjorie Taylor-Greene on your board or in your legislature is no way to save the planet), but it's got a better evidentiary basis than carbon capture.

There's also good evidence that correlates inequality with carbon emissions, though the causal relationship is unclear. Maybe inequality lets the wealthy control policy outcomes and tilt them towards permitting high-emission/high-profit activities. Maybe inequality reduces the social cohesion needed to make decarbonization work. Maybe inequality makes it harder for green tech to find customers. Maybe inequality leads to rich people chasing status-enhancing goods (think: private jet rides) that are extremely carbon-intensive.

Whatever the reason, there's a pretty good case that radical wealth redistribution would speed up decarbonization – any "all of the above" strategy should certainly consider this one.

Kysar's written a paper on this, entitled "Ways Not to Think About Climate Change":

https://political-theory.org/resources/Documents/Kysar.Ways%20Not%20to%20Think%20About%20Climate%20Change.pdf

It's been accepted for the upcoming American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy conference on climate change:

https://political-theory.org/13257256

It's quite a bracing read! The next time someone tells you we should hand Elon Musk billions to in exchange for making it possible to legally manufacture vast fleets of SUVs because we need to try "all of the above," send them a copy of this paper.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/#big-tradeoff

[rideboomindia]

RideBoom Revolutionizes Transportation with Innovative Solutions and Unmatched Convenience

RideBoom India is expanding its innovative ridesharing services to 20 more cities across India. Providing affordable, eco-friendly transportation options to the masses.

RideBoom, the leading transportation service provider, is proud to announce its commitment to revolutionizing the transportation industry with innovative solutions and unmatched convenience for riders and drivers alike.

Unmatched Convenience

RideBoom is dedicated to providing unmatched convenience compared to other transportation services. With the RideBoom app, users can easily book a car, taxi, or delivery service right from their mobile devices. The app connects users with nearby drivers or couriers, allowing them to get to their destination or receive their deliveries quickly and efficiently.

Innovative Solutions

RideBoom is constantly innovating to provide the best possible experience for its users. The company has recently expanded its Bike Taxi Service to additional cities, offering an eco-friendly and efficient mode of transportation for short-distance travel. RideBoom is also exploring the integration of electric vehicles into its fleet, demonstrating its commitment to sustainability and the EV revolution.

Commitment to Safety and Reliability

At the core of RideBoom's mission is a dedication to providing safe and reliable transportation services. The company has implemented stringent safety measures and training protocols to ensure that its drivers and couriers deliver a secure and comfortable experience for all users.

Transforming the Ride-Hailing Industry

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For more information about RideBoom India and its services, please visit https://rideboom.com/india/

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[chrrywvea]

a serotonin boost for today:

✨️imagine married lokius at a christmas market✨️

(or: my brain going haywire at 4 am for these two idiots & leaving me with this half fic half imagine-ramble-story thing)

mobius obsessing over all the little trinket shops

like immediately upon their arrival, he's over the moon

loki detests all the masses of people but nearly melts when he sees how mobius lights up

he does enjoy it later on as well, very much even

sharing mulled wine

butterfly kisses & red cheeks (loki i'm looking at you)

mobius wears the scarf loki made for him for his birthday (personal hc of mine: loki can crochet & knit insanely well)

mistletoes, so many mistletoes

snowflakes in loki's curls make him look even more mesmerising (mobius stop staring please)

mobius gets fairy lights for their apartment

loki shields his tiny husband from all the people bumping into everyone (inspo from the cutest gay couple i saw at the christmas market yesterday thanks guys♡)

they try out all the different food stands together

(since christmas markets tend to have lots of nordic food loki gets to teach mobius about his favourite dishes at home when he was a child)

mobius loves listening to loki anyway, no matter the topic, but hearing him speak so freely of the good aspects of his childhood always warms his heart

they search more quiet spots for breaks when they both get a little overwhelmed

loki sings (though this time only for his husband)

holding hands in each others coat pockets & hand kisses to warm cold skin up

beanies

they try on all the beanies in the whole market (mobius puts them on loki who eventually just surrenders to it)

in the end loki buys them real silly, matching ones (if any artists want to draw this, by all means, go ahead! i'd love that so much but i have zero talent when it comes to drawing)

loki drags mobius to the ice rink, the only thing he's weary of since he's never been ice skating before - but loki is there to help!

he's a pro at it, frosty heritage and stuff

yes i believe frost giants can ice skate really well shush

lots of laughter and banter ensue with mobius attempting to stay upright

the waist hold™ is now reversed to prevent mobius from falling on his butt

but honestly they were gonna be close anyway so

touchy touchy

mobius gets the hang of the whole ice skating ordeal and loki cheers him on when he manages one round around the rink on his own

though he completely rams into loki's back upon his return

when they tire out after a while they get more food, sit around one of the nearby bonfires and cuddle

star gazing when it gets dark & planning for christmas eve

they both sneakily buy gifts for one another when the other's busy with something

mobius gets a little tipsy

too many samples at the liquor shops oops

+ i might add more if anyone likes this but this is what came out for now, enjoy :-D

[bloodyknucklesforme]

Christmas Traditions | 141 x Reader

Idc if it's not December yet, it's Christmas time. Might do a part two with Alejandro, Rudy, Konig, and others (need to do research on non-UK Christmas traditions)

John Price

Christmas is the only time of the year he can truly get away from work and he makes sure to get as far away as possible. He's rented a little cottage as north in Scotland as he can get.

You drive a car full of stuff up on the 20th, he allows 10 minutes of Christmas music per hour on the road.

He cuts down a tree for you, even if it's not totally legal to do so.

Most of the ornaments are yours, he never decorated before meeting you. He likes watching you stretch to reach the higher branches and will pick you up by the waist if need be. He likes putting the star on top.

You mostly spend your time together in bed or by the fire.

He's a splurge when it comes to gift-giving, a couple small gifts and then something big like a kitchen-aid mixer or something else expensive you've been wanting.

Spends Christmas night dancing with you even if he has two left feet.

Wishes he didn't have to leave on the 27th

Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick

He likes going out of the country for Christmas. Doesn't want to be in London, especially after Picadilly.

You almost miss your flight, running through the airport.

The location is always a surprise.

This year it's Gibraltar.

You have a nice hotel overlooking the ocean

Spend time at the beach and Christmas market.

The two of you spend Christmas eve watching old movies and drinking wine.

You love the trips but hope next year he'll bring you to meet the family. Maybe give you a ring too.

Matching Pjs, tea and biscuits is how you spend Christmas morning

John 'Soap' MacTavish

He's the one that buys the matching pjs.

Loves Christmas more than anyone else in the group

Takes you up to Scotland to meet the family even if you've only been dating for a couple months. His mom refuses to let him miss it.

Sings songs the whole drive up

Apologizes profusely for having to leave for midnight mass with his mom, and will hold your hand the entire time if you choose to go.

His mom barely leaves the two of you alone so any 'alone time' is in the car.

Not the best at gift giving, he watches you and his mom walk around the market and buys whatever you pick up. You have a lot of funny phrase mugs now.

Teaches you the proper way to pronounce "Nollaig Chridheil" (Merry Christmas in Scots)

Drags you outside when it snows to either build a snowman or pelt you with snowballs

Simon 'Ghost' Riley

Wouldn't even realize it was Christmas if it wasn't for you

He kind of panics because he didn't plan anything or get you any gifts

Lots of last-minute shopping.

Gets a little charlie brown type tree. You're both taller than it but make orange slice ornaments and a popcorn garland. It makes the flat smell incredible if a little buttery.

He can put up with one movie so pick carefully. He might fall asleep but he's still wrapped around you.

You fall asleep on the couch as the little spoon and wake up the next morning with a stack of presents by your little tree. He's somehow still behind you.

Traditional English breakfast and tea Christmas morning

You got him a bracelet with your name and the date you met stamped on it, even if he can't wear it in the field it's always in a pocket.

You can convince him to go with matching socks but nothing more

He's just glad the two of you are together and will try to do whatever tradition you want if it makes you happy.

[scotianostra]

Margaret( Russell ) McIver was born in Ayrshire, or Glasgow, depending on what source you read on May 9th 1879 to a French polisher and policeman.

“Maggie” went on to found the famous Barras in Glasgow.

Maggie eventually moved to the Bridgeton area of Glasgow as as a young girl, during the time of the industrial expansion of the city. Mass immigration from the likes of the Scottish Highlands and Ireland created a population of lower working class who needed ways to make a living.

The Bridgegate or Briggait was synonymous with the rag and second-hand clothes trade at that time. The Glaswegian word ‘barras’ describes the handcarts which the traders used to hawk their wares.

By the age of 12, Maggie had her first taste of business looking after a family friend’s fruit barrow in Parkhead, from there, she was inspired to open a small fruit shop in Bridgeton and met her future husband and business partner, James McIver, at the local fruit market.

With the beginning of World War One, there was an increase in the volume of traffic on the city thoroughfares and renewed attempts to discourage street trading. After witnessing barrow traders being booked by police, Maggie decided to provide a place for trading to continue.

The McIvers organised a Saturday market on their land, now known as the Barras, and before long were attracting 300 barrows. Maggie rented out many of her stalls to women. The original market was sheltered in 1926 because Maggie was concerned for the welfare of the hawkers in bad weather.

James McIver died of malaria, which he had contracted during the war, leaving Maggie to raise nine children and run the business on her own at the age of 49.

As legend has it, the businesswoman decided to open the Barrowland Ballroom after the usual venue for her hawkers Christmas dance and meal was fully booked. The ballroom opened on Christmas Eve, 1934, capitalising on the dancing craze of the 1930s and allowing Maggie to provide for her family.

Having come from humble beginnings, Maggie was a multi-millionaire by the time she died in 1958.

The ballroom was burned down in a massive fire shortly after Maggie’s death, but reopened in 1960, with the famous neon signage erected around 1982.

[occasionallyprosie]

A Thousand Ways

Chapter 6: "No weapons? No problem"

Dropped into yet another Hyrule, Legend finds himself without food and a very easy but questionable option to get it: stealing. He hoped Four didn't mind, he'd pay them back eventually!

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Not Febuwhump (continuing plot)

Read On AO3 Warnings: None :)

This time, he actually managed to find a village.

From the bright colors and thick with a nearly unnoticeable fae magic, he was certain it was Four's Hyrule. The town he found had been Castle Town, unbelievably, he could see the castle looming over the land. The town was filled with markets, bustling with merchants and traders.

He didn't have any money, but he wasn't going to let that stop him from getting supplies.

He slipped through the streets, feet light and movements hard to follow. He smoothly took a cloak from a stall as he passed, noting the name of the supposed maker and the price tag. He'd ask Four to give his pay later.

He did the same with an apple, which he ate and threw away before his next attempt: a bag of jerky, which was also successful. Then he tried for a loaf of bread.

It wasn't until the bread that someone saw him.

"Hey! You didn't pay for that!"

Legend knew, objectively, the better move would've been to play it off as an honest mistake, but he also knew they hadn't seen his face yet and he really didn't want to be recognized here.

So instead, he absconded with the bread.

"HEY! STOP— GUARDS!"

He ran through the streets, ducking indiscriminately through alleyways until he was sure he had lost his pursuers, and he ducked behind a corner of crates and waited with bated breath.

Nothing. He didn't hear anything, anyone approaching, and he let out a soft sigh of relief, relaxing into his hiding place. He'd made it. He had on a simple green cloak, so he blended in amongst the masses of colorfully dressed people easily. He'd be fine—

A blade appeared beneath his neck.

"Don't move."

He internally cursed out everything he could as he stiffened, still clutching the loaf of bread to his chest. He tried to keep his head down enough that the hood of his stolen cloak covered his face. The tip of a steel blade was at his throat, under his chin, and forced him to raise his head.

He looked up unwillingly and made eye contact with the man. He seemed about middle-aged, if on the younger end of that, so maybe about forty or so, with blond hair and blue eyes and in knight garb.

"How old are you?" The knight asked, a captain, Legend would guess.

Legend glared but kept his mouth shut.

The knight raised an eyebrow. He moved to stand in front of Legend then knelt down, his sword still at his neck. "I asked you a question, young man, and don't you think about lying to me."

Legend snarled. "What does it matter to you?" He spat. "Just take the damn bread and throw me in jail, get it over with."

The knight seemed to soften. "You just stole bread...."

Legend scoffed.

"Just tell me how old you are, kid."

He continued to glare. The knight sighed, he sheathed his sword and held out his hand. Legend placed the loaf into it, remaining as pressed against the wall and crate as he could. He really couldn't handle being thrown into a cell anytime soon, he just had to hope that the knight would let him off with a warning.

The knight tucked the loaf under an arm and held out his hand again.

Legend stared uneasily. What else did he want? He didn't know about anything else Legend stole, and he wasn't going to preemptively hand it off.

"Come on," the knight said gently. "I'll help you out, as long as you don't steal anymore."

He felt his mouth drop open a bit. He'd done this a thousand times but always from the other side. He'd scared off guards and helped terrified, starving kids get food and shelter, taking them to friends who had always wanted children and could support them.

He didn't think he'd count as a starving kid, but apparently he looked miserable enough that the knight was taking pity on him. A knight.

"You don't even know me," Legend blurted. "Why?"

"You remind me of my sons," the knight explained. "Will you trust me?"

He didn't have many other options, Legend guessed. It was either this, it was jail... or he tried to run again.

Except he was exhausted. He'd barely slept the night prior and had fought a horde the day before. Even his magic was a bit low for his preferences. He'd hoped to at least get some food and a semi-safe sleep in an alleyway.

He could run, he still had some magic, enough to teleport behind the knight and run. He could make it to the woods, probably, and from there he could get away faster than any Castle Town knight could catch him.

He inhaled carefully and did just that. Farore's Wind carried him behind the knight and he sprinted away, ignoring the yells for him to stop.

He wasn't going back to a cell anytime soon. He wasn't ready for that. He needed to take the time to at least come to terms with the events of the last time he'd been in one and not shove those memories as far down as he could before he let himself end up in one again. He would not be able to handle being anywhere near a cell again.

He ran into the wilderness, breathing heavily.

A branch snapped and he barely dodged a spear thrown at him. 

Letting out a string of colorful Subrosian curses, Legend flicked out his knife and engaged with the incidental ambush. There were six--actually--seven of them, and as he fought them, they weren't dying. Black blood trickled from every wound he inflicted. 

Another curse slipped out and he kept moving. He didn't want to risk any further damage to his magical core, and his magic was nearing low. If he depleted it further, not only would it take few days to replenish rather than the normal single day or two, it would also risk further damage to it.

He had to use Nayru's Love twice nonetheless, he managed to cut down two of the seven monsters, taking a deep gash to his side and a far shallower one to his leg. The remaining five were weakened, he could handle them but—not as he was. He was tired and sloppy. He'd fought that horde with Sky's Zelda —his ancestor, and he hadn't had time to fully process what that meant for him— and came out practically unscathed. That did not hold against these monsters, he was far too tired and drained from the prior fights, from his lack of any nutritional intake for a fair few days, and from running all day.

He heard a battle cry and he tore himself from the swinging reach of a moblin that tried to grab him.

He darted back in, twisting around and cutting clean through half of a thick throat. The monster screeched, finally killed and Legend felt something slam into his side. He was thrown into a tree, thankfully avoiding a new concussion, just definitely breaking a rib.

A bokoblin screeched above him. He blasted it with Din's Fire and, teetering into the zone of magical exhaustion, he dragged himself back up to the sounds of barked orders and clanging metal.

"Kid, hey look at me." Hands landed on his shoulders and he jerked away, tripping over his feet. "Whoa, slow down. I won't hurt you. Look, the monsters are gone. It's safe, I swear."

"Captain, he's armed."

"Did you think an unarmed child killed three monsters and injured another four?" The first voice snapped. "Come on, kid."

He could've forced himself to run, but frankly, he'd either have to comply or die, with the injuries and supplies he had. Plus, his body made the decision for him when it decided that his physical and magical exhaustion would finish dragging him into partial lucidity, his mind was too on high alert from the chases and the battles for him to lose consciousness but the exhaustion was enough for his body to collapse.

He was given a potion, both red and green, and he was fairly coherent when the medic set and wrapped the wounds that didn't heal with the red.

The medic left him and he heard them talking to someone.

"He's probably not as young as you think, I'd estimate middle to late teens, he has been malnourished most of his life which would account for the smaller stature. He has also experienced many wounds and not enough healing. There are scars from blades, claws, and teeth alike, as well as lightning. Whatever you do, Captain, be gentle... I imagine he hasn't had good experiences with anyone."

Legend almost rolled his eyes. He had to admit, the medic wasn't wrong, he gave a correct age range--which most people seemed to struggle with--and was dead on with the malnourishment, getting food was not easy while on adventures across countries and worlds, he also didn't always have access to proper healing supplies and had a stupid amount of scars as a result. And yeah, he'd had a bad experience with every single people group out there.

The man who entered was the same one who cornered Legend in the alleyway.

Legend tensed, he didn't have his knife, but the green potion did fix up his magic for the most part.

"Hey, I'm not going to hurt you," the guard captain said. "Can you tell me your name?"

He shut his mouth and kept his shut, glaring daggers at the man. 

"Look, nobody here is going to hurt you, nothing bad's going to happen. I just want to help, but I can't do that if you don't work with me."

Legend gathered his bitterness and snarled. "I don't work with knights," he spat. "You're wasting your time. Either give me my knife back and let me go, or throw me in a damn cell so I can hurry up and escape."

The knight captain sighed heavily. "You don't want that."

"Want to get thrown into jail? No. But I'd rather that than be controlled by a damned knight," he declared through gritted teeth.

"Would you?" The knight captain challenged.

Yes. He'd rather be trapped in a cell and beaten and killed before he'd ever, ever, willingly be controlled —enslaved— by a soldier. There were a few exceptions, but only because Legend knew they wouldn't control him, the other heroes would never, even Warriors who was the most 'knightly' of the four actual soldiers in the group.

"I'd rather die," Legend snarled.

That clearly startled the man.

Legend then gave a feral grin. "Except I know the goddesses aren't quite done with me, so I don't think it'll be me who dies in that situation."

Guard captain successfully disturbed. Legend leaned back, drew flames to his fingers, the green potion having given plenty of magical restoration, and he hovered his hand above the soft, flammable bed he'd been put on.

"So give me my knife back and let me go, and we won't have to find out whether or not the goddesses are done with me... or you."

"Okay, okay!" The captain looked at his hand with clear fear. "Don't be hasty. Just— Answer some of my questions, that's all I ask. Then you can go free."

Legend rolled his eyes and crossed his arms, letting the fire fizzle and fade. "Fine."

"And you have to tell the truth."

He nodded.

"Who are you?"

Legend almost grinned. That was the perfect question.

"My name is Link," Legend revealed, "however it might actually be Link Hyrule, as according to the founding Queen of Hyrule, Hylia herself, says I'm her descendant, and then in the future of today's time, Queen Zelda says I have the same magical signature as her son. But we both know that son isn't me because she's from a different timeline."

"... S'cuse me?"

Legend actually grinned. "Are you asking me to repeat or elaborate? Because if I elaborate to the point of comprehension we're going to be here all night."

"Elaborate?"

His grin turned just a bit feral. Look he was not the Castle Town Prince his blood apparently said he was, he was from a farm and raised by a sword on the natural roads of Hyrule.

"Well--See, a few weeks back I fell through a portal and ended up meeting Queen Zelda and I'm from the future, but she's from my past and an alternate timeline where the Fallen Hero in my time didn't die to Ganondorf. She said that my magical signature is the same as her two-year-old son's. Now magical signatures cannot be the same between two different people unless they're the exact same person. Following?"

"No."

"Great. So then I time-traveled all the way to the very beginning of Hyrule, then I met the Queen who founded Hyrule, Zelda. Except she is actually the goddess Hylia reincarnated as a mortal and so she had really powerful magic and she said that, even if I thought otherwise, she could tell that my blood was in some part hers. In other words, the goddess herself told me I was her descendant and she was also the first queen of Hyrule, meaning that I'm technically of the royal bloodline. Maybe fairly removed but still of the bloodline because the royal bloodline is the goddess's bloodline and I'm of the goddess's bloodline. It makes things really weird since my best friend is the Queen Zelda of my time and she never mentioned having a long-lost little brother so... I'm not sure how to tell her but you can't really argue truth with the goddess of light and that's also two really powerful women who said I'm a prince."

The guard captain looked mildly horrified and extremely concerned.

"Mason!" He called. "I think he hit his head!"

Legend snorted. There it is.

The medic poked his head in. "Smith—What's with you and insane blond kids?"

Captain Smith apparently, scoffed and glared mildly. "I've told you a dozen times; Link isn't insane."

"The kid is so saturated with magic he's gone insane, he hears voices, Captain."

Legend froze. His eyes narrowed at the man, Smith, but mainly the medic.

"Sorry," he began through gritted teeth, "I could've sworn you said Link, voices, and insane... Surely you don't mean the Heroes of the Four Sword?"

The men both tensed, Captain Smith became a bit on guard and clearly defensive.

"And if we do?" He asked a bit warily.

Legend was already on his feet, forming a fireball in his hand, and not releasing Din's Fire as he grabbed the medic's collar and held the fire to his face.

"I don't care who you think you are, but Link has gone through too much for you bastardized cowards to call him insane. All four of them will be legends for centuries to come. You call them insane one more time and I'll give you a reason to be insane yourself."

The genuine fear was worth the possible crime. The guard captain had drawn his sword but only raised it.

"They are not voices, they are their own people and you will treat them like it. Even if they don't or can't separate. Do you understand me?" The medic flinched when the flame came closer.

"We get it!"

"Put the fire down!"

Legend shoved the medic away. Standing up and keeping his hand enflamed.

"Who even are you?" The medic demanded. "We'd know our fellow knight a hell of a lot better than some thieving brat!"

He snarled. "I am a hero chosen by the goddesses, I am Farore's Champion of Courage, I killed Ganon four times over and I've wielded the entire Triforce three times. I will not let anyone speak ill of my fellow heroes be it their worst enemies or their fathers."

He glared at the guard captain and held up his left hand. A bit of magic had the Triforce of Courage on the back of his hand gleam brightly.

"Will you need a demonstration of my abilities, or will you pay your heroes the respect they deserve after saving your lives and sacrificing their childhoods?"

He took a small bit of pride in how they both proverbially fell to their knees and swore their improvement, of course, they didn't actually kneel, but it was a near thing.

Legend found himself walking out of the guard station with his knife back, hunger satiated as they'd given him a loaf of bread and milk before he left, and no bounty on his head

Huh... intimidation really does work.

He didn't make it a hundred yards from the village before another portal appeared. He rolled his eyes and strode through.

Next>>

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

U.S. EV sales are growing while demand for gas cars is collapsing

P.S. The American politically correct mass media is an interesting and insidious phenomenon: Their journalists (it doesn't matter if they are right-wing, liberal or extreme left) are quite skilled at often pulling out a single fact and blowing it out of context and out of its true proportions...serving the political interests of the particular media sponsor.

By the way, the American media often likes to spread disinformation campaigns launched by the Russians and Chinese and present them as sensational news or "information" from "knowing anonymous sources in the Kremlin, by the way, the Americans like to make excuses about spreading Russian propaganda lies as "objectivity" and "political correctness"...

In fact, the global electric car market is growing at a healthy pace... and the only ones who have real problems are the old American "legacy automakers"...

[haggishlyhagging]

In the course of this book I have suggested that the struggle for our future is not between capitalism and communism, but rather between a social and ideological organization (be it Eastern or Western, Northern or Southern) orienting primarily to a partnership or dominator model of society. If we look at recent developments in Russia from this perspective, we see this borne out by a number of underlying dynamics. We see that the problems facing democracy in Russia are rooted not in communism but in a characteristic common to societies orienting closely to a dominator model: the fact that even before the Soviet "dictatorship of the proletariat," under tsarist and/or feudal regimes, Russians have only known authoritarian and hierarchic structures. Similarly, the communist apparatniks' all too successful sabotage of Gorbachev's attempts to steer a course toward more partnership can be seen in terms of the dominator system's maintenance mechanism of creating artificial scarcities. For this is one way elites maintain control, as illustrated during an earlier period of dominator regression in the United States, when Reaganomics, with its diversion of funds from social programs to armaments and its reduction of taxes for the rich, further widened the gap between those on top and those on the bottom - thereby bringing to the fore, as in the former Soviet Union, diversionary enmities between different ethnic, racial, and religious groups.

Moreover, despite the mass entry of women into the labor market and into lower and middle government levels, as I observed firsthand when I visited the Soviet Union in 1984, Russia is extremely male dominant and male centered, with a strong belief (backed up by traditions of wife-beating) that in the family women must defer to and serve men. And unfortunately this male-supremacist ideology did not change even during the Gorbachev years—when the Soviet outlawing of feminism as counter-revolutionary began to be somewhat relaxed—as dramatically illustrated by Soviet television's removal of the portion of Gorbachev's famous American interview in which he spoke of his partnership with Raisa.

Given the continuing persistence of such strong dominator gender stereotypes, it was predictable that as a substitute for the overarching enmity between the Soviet Union and the United States, violent enmities based on ethnic, racial, and religious differences should again flare up. For, as we have seen, the superior-inferior, in-group versus out group species model of "mankind" and (as in the legend of Eve) a “dangerous” and “inferior” female “other” is a key component in the construction of the enemy mentality so central to the maintenance of dominator systems.

It is also predictable that, particularly in those cultures and subcultures that are more rigidly male dominant—where "masculinity" continues to be defined primarily in terms of domination and conquest—violence will be especially severe during periods of great economic upheavals. Some of this violence will be justified on the basis of ethnic and racial differences. Most of it will be in the name of nationalism, as in Yugoslavia, Kashmir, and Sri Lanka. Some of it will be in the name of religion, as in many parts of the Islamic world. And occasionally it will still be based on an ideology of communist revolution, as in Peru, Guatemala, El Salvador, and most recently Mexico. But in the end, rather than bringing either political or economic democracy, the rebellion of the "angry young men" against the equally angry and repressive old men will generally produce no more than a changing of the guard—as tragically evidenced in many regions of the world where, instead of colonial armies, indigenous armies now maintain tyrannical and exploitive regimes. For the underlying commonality between the battling warlords of Somalia, the continuing bloodshed in the Middle East, the skinhead attacks against foreigners in Germany, and the macho gang wars of the United States is still a male socialization that equates real masculinity with violence and domination, playing itself out in a variety of different contexts.

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

[motordrive2024]

Tata Curvv SUV Unveiled – All Key Features & Launch Details

The much-awaited Tata Curvv has finally been unveiled in its close-to-production avatar for the Indian market. The carmaker says that it merges “the toughness and durability of an SUV with an elegant and sporty silhouette of a Coupe”. It will be the first mass-market coupe SUV from the home-grown automaker that will come with both ICE (internal combustion engine) and electric powertrains.

he electric iteration of the Curvv underpins the brand’s new Acti.ev architecture and features signature split LED headlamp clusters, a new grille with piano black and body color finish, bumper-integrated fog lamps, larger air intake, and a pronounced faux skid plate at the front.

The interior of the coupe SUV will share features with the Harrier and Safari. It will have a 10.25-inch screen setup for the instrument cluster and digital dials, a floating touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity, a Harrier-like two-spoke steering wheel, Head-Up Display, ventilated front seats, an electric parking brake, wireless charger, connected car features, dual-zone climate control, and a 360-degree camera. The higher trims will be offered with some exclusive amenities such as a panoramic sunroof and Level 2 ADAS tech.

Specifications of the Tata Curvv EV are yet to be revealed. However, the electric SUV is likely to deliver a range of around 450km – 500km. The SUV’s ICE version will use Tata’s new 125bhp, 1.2L, 3-cylinder turbo petrol and Nexon’s 1.5L, 4-cylinder diesel engines. It’s also reported to be offered with a CNG fuel option at a later stage.

The Tata SUV-coupe’s back feels tall and the boot lid is positioned a lot higher than the bonnet, which has likely been done to increase the luggage space on offer (422 litres claimed).

Its key styling detail here is the wraparound and connected LED tail lights. The tall bumper – having a faux skid plate with silver finish at the bottom – mimics the split-headlight setup, which is replaced by the reflectors and reversing lamps here.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch:

In its new Global EV Outlook 2024, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said electric vehicle (EV) sales will reach 17 million this year — up from 14 million in 2023.

In 2024, EVs are projected to make up roughly one out of nine cars sold in the United States, one in four in Europe and 45 percent of total car sales in China, an IEA press release said.

“Electric cars continue to make progress towards becoming a mass-market product in a larger number of countries,” the report said. “Tight margins, volatile battery metal prices, high inflation, and the phase-out of purchase incentives in some countries have sparked concerns about the industry’s pace of growth, but global sales data remain strong.”

More than one-fifth of cars sold globally in 2024 are predicted to be electric, with growing demand set to substantially reduce oil consumption used for road transportation over the coming decade, the press release said.

The pace of EV sales means road transportation’s oil demand is expected to peak around 2025, according to the IEA report, as Reuters reported.

The report added that around six million barrels of oil per day would be cut from oil demand by 2030, with an 11 million barrel reduction by 2035 if countries meet their stated climate and energy policies.

By 2030, EVs are projected to make up nearly one in five cars on the roads in the U.S. and European Union and one in three in China.

[energy-5]

From Classic to Electric: The Transformation of Iconic Car Models

Electric Revolution in the Automotive Industry

The automotive industry is undergoing a monumental shift, transitioning from the roar of gasoline engines to the hum of electric motors. This transformation is not just about the emergence of new electric vehicle (EV) brands, but also about the electrification of some of the world's most iconic car models. This transition to electric power is driven by a combination of environmental concerns, advancements in battery technology, and changing consumer preferences. The journey from classic internal combustion engines to electric powertrains has been both challenging and exciting, reshaping the automotive landscape as we know it.

The Resurgence of the Volkswagen Beetle

One of the most beloved car models in history, the Volkswagen Beetle, has made a comeback in an electric avatar. Originally launched in the 1930s, the Beetle became a symbol of simplicity and reliability. In recent years, Volkswagen announced plans to revive the Beetle as an electric car, part of its broader strategy to introduce more electric models. This new electric Beetle aims to combine nostalgia with modern EV technology, appealing to both classic Beetle lovers and new-age environmentalists. While retaining its iconic shape, the electric Beetle is expected to feature advanced technology like fast charging and a substantial range, catering to the needs of today's EV market.

The Electric Transition of the Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang, an emblem of American muscle cars, has also embraced electrification. The Mustang Mach-E, an all-electric crossover, marks a significant departure from the classic Mustang's V8 engine tradition. Launched in 2020, the Mach-E combines the Mustang's legendary performance with the benefits of electric propulsion. It offers a range of up to 300 miles on a single charge and accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in just 3.5 seconds. The Mach-E has been well-received, signifying a successful blend of an iconic legacy with futuristic technology.

MINI Cooper's Electric Makeover

The MINI Cooper, known for its distinctive design and agile handling, has also joined the electric wave. The launch of the MINI Electric brings a new dimension to this British icon, maintaining its classic aesthetics while integrating cutting-edge EV technology. With a range of around 145 miles per charge and a 0 to 60 mph time of around 7 seconds, the MINI Electric retains the brand's fun-to-drive character. This transition reflects the brand's commitment to sustainability while preserving the essence that has made the MINI a popular choice for decades.

Porsche's Electrification with the Taycan

Porsche, synonymous with high-performance sports cars, has made a bold entry into the EV market with the Taycan. The Taycan is not just Porsche's first fully electric car but also a powerful statement in the luxury EV segment. With its exceptional performance, delivering up to 750 horsepower in the Turbo S model, and a range of up to 227 miles, the Taycan has set new standards for electric sports cars. It represents how traditional sports car manufacturers are adapting to the electric era without compromising on performance and luxury.

The Transition of Supercars to Electric Power

The shift to electric is not limited to mass-market models; even supercars are getting electric makeovers. Brands like Ferrari and Lamborghini, known for their powerful engines and exhilarating performance, are exploring electric and hybrid models. The move towards electrification in supercars is particularly significant, as it challenges the traditional notion that electric vehicles can't match the performance of gasoline-powered sports cars. This transition is a testament to the advancements in EV technology, where electric motors can deliver instant torque and unmatched acceleration.

Challenges and Future Prospects

Despite the excitement, the transition from classic to electric models poses significant challenges. These include maintaining brand identity, meeting consumer expectations for performance and range, and managing the higher production costs of EVs. However, the future looks promising as battery technology continues to improve, charging infrastructure expands, and public acceptance of EVs grows. The transformation of these iconic car models into electric versions is not just a trend but a glimpse into the future of transportation, where sustainability meets style and performance.