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You mix and match units when calculating a ratio of efficiency and it gets you meaningless conclusions. By your "logic" a Tesla M3, a leader in electric efficiency, is the worst of the bunch. It needs ~100kWh of electricity to drive the same 1000km distance. And ICE cars can do that trip with 0 electricity, many even with less fuel so they must be the best?

It makes no sense other than for you to feel good about your car. But your car needs 10-11kWh to drive ideally a pathetic 30km (!) and 75l of fuel for the other 970km. Other ICE cars, or non-PHEV XC60 (the diesel) need no electricity and 50-60l of fuel for the same distance. And they're much cheaper to buy. So why did you pay anywhere between 15k-45k EUR more to have a "compliance car" hybrid that doesn't even float (/s) when this means you're just getting "less efficient"? Unless you bought the bragging rights, and now you're here to defend them.

The goal of any electrified car is to drive as much as possible on electric power alone without the need to run the engine. Not only because ideally some owners can make their own electricity but also for comfort and emissions.

Unions here never disclose how many employees are on strike, it's a way to protect the collective action.

> https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/tesla-teknikern-jobbar-trot... > En Tesla-anställd tekniker som Ekot pratat med är kritisk mot fackets kamp för kollektivavtal, och väljer att trots strejken fortsätta arbeta.

> ”Hade jag inte tyckt om mitt jobb, hade det varit så toxiskt som de beskriver, då hade jag bytt jobb”, säger han till Ekot.

That's one technician saying they are happy and disappointed with IF Metall, unless conditions are so egregious to force unanimous action there will always be employees who don't want to participate on a strike. It was the same in the case of Klarna, a lot of employees were not in support of a potential strike but there was enough support to announce it to force Klarna to come into a collective bargaining agreement.

> It's a powerplay by unions who have to resort to sympathy strikes using the government monopoly on giving out registration plates because Tesla workers are happy. Even those are failing as Tesla sales in Sweden have increased over 2022 in Nov and Dec 2023, in spite of blockades on Tesla car imports.

It's become a powerplay, exactly because of how the labour market works here, if a company succeeds in overturning a foundational principle of the labour market then employers have acquired a much more outsized power against employees. IF Metall wants Tesla to abide by what any other car manufacturer abides to in Sweden, in not doing so they are creating a market advantage over other companies who are following the rules of the labour market.

Had Tesla not brought scabs to break the strike nothing of this would be happening, do you understand that? The major issue is that, it's not Tesla not signing a CBA, it's Tesla trying to strong-arm their way through union busting tactics in a society where unions are a core tenet to balance employers-employees relationships. Without unionised power the labour market in Scandinavia/Nordics is not possible to be balanced, the government tries to not interfere.

I do not understand why you defend Tesla so often in Hacker News, I've noticed your username across the years always siding with Tesla, Tesla is in the wrong here and they are paying for it.

If Tesla doesn't like how the market works here they are free to leave at any moment...