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Voltswagen of America
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Re: Voltswagen of America
#352Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too, only owned a used old Toyota (pre ABS and OBDII) since and right now nothing. The VW I leased was a 2014 so I just managed to miss out on the era of rearview cameras though
You are aware that the old Toyota has higher emissions of greenhouse gases than VW which cheated on emission tests?
It might generate higher emissions, but whether using it for another year or two generated more emissions overall, I think it's a bit trickier to know if it was worse overall.
Enough VW's not sold mean VW's not built, and producing the car is a large amount of the car's expected lifetime CO2 footprint (I've seen from 1/5th to 1/3rd).
If they were just delaying a less polluting vehicle purchase, a delay is a net negative, but since now they are driving nothing, that means it's actually possible the older vehicle was the better choice, especially since pollution from cars if very front-loaded (if we assume a new car that was purchased would be unused or very lightly used, since they are able to go without a car now).
Re: Voltswagen of America
#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember how i said "unrealistic" and not "lower"? WLTP is a rather unrealistic way to determine fuel consumption or energy usage on cars. If you look at sites which collect fuel usage for cars you often times see fuel usages considerably higher than what WLTP defines. Especially if it's a PHEV since WLTP expects a full battery all the time. Under 2L/100km for a 2 ton SUV is not realistic by any stretch of the imagin…
So your criticism is actually in the context of ICE and PHEVs - I assumed you meant pure EVs since that what this thread seemed to be about, and for those autonomy numbers seem to be strictly lower, hence my confusion why WLTP would be more doctored in this regard than NECD.
I have looked at the Model 3 and Hyundai Ioniq and even there the energy usage seems to be rather off. 15 kWh/100km WLTP vs 19 kWh/100km according to spritmonitor on the Model 3. 11 vs 14 with the Ioniq.
So yeah, it seems like WLTP is not really accurate for EVs either.
Re: Voltswagen of America
#354Nothing for "Voltswagen" in the United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) yet. https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=engli... Don't see anything in Germany either: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/basis.kopf.form
Not that surprising. If they were planning on doing a surprise name change at the end of April, registering the trademark a month early would have spoiled the surprise. Plus it wouldn't give any advantage. Voltswagen would be protected by their Volkswagen trademark, and trademarks don't even offer protection until you submit proof of you already using them in commerce. And you don't have to register trademarks to have common law protections in the US, and they aren't planning to use it in Germany.
Re: Voltswagen of America
#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about we stop accepting this status quo? People will lie to make money, but we don't have to make it a socially acceptable practice. In fact, to make money, people just do whatever makes money. If they lie to make money, it means lying is making them money. If we could raise the costs of lying, for example by being much more eager to punish deceptive advertising with high fines, people would lie less.
Humans have been lying for personal gain for only a short amount of time. I guess yea, we should all just decide that lying is bad. That's a novel idea.
The system of private profit is what gave them the motivation to lie. It is not a natural law. Transportation could be nationalized. What we regard as corruption in the public sphere is literally the stated goal of the private sphere.
Re: Voltswagen of America
#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
and what about the ones at literally every other company that produces diesels?
My own admittedly uninformed understanding is that there was cheating all around, but VW was by far the most flagrant. BMW and Mercedes diesels required DEF (diesel exhaust fluid), whereas VW did not. Marketing and/or executive leadership (again, as per my understanding) pushed the notion that the additive would make diesels appear to be less attractive and who wants to add a second liquid beyond fuel every few hundr…
Our VW Sharan required DEV.
Re: Voltswagen of America
#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.
Does it bother you when Germans say "zis"? German has no "th" sound, so "zis" is what they start with before they practice. It's similarly grating to Germans to hear their language mispronounced by others. And yet, English has an "f" sound. German has an extremely consistent spelling and essentially all "v"s are pronounced as "f". We share (the latin) alphabet, and English has absolutely no authority, given how incon…
> Does it bother you when Germans say "zis"?
It just bothers the historical linguistics nerd in me that all the other Germanic languages (other than Icelandic) lost the beautiful Thorn and Edh sounds consonants :-)
I've always found it interesting that the German approximation is "z" here when it could be "t" or "d", since that is what "th" sounds turned into in Old Franconian.
Re: Voltswagen of America
#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.
Does it bother you when Germans say "zis"? German has no "th" sound, so "zis" is what they start with before they practice. It's similarly grating to Germans to hear their language mispronounced by others. And yet, English has an "f" sound. German has an extremely consistent spelling and essentially all "v"s are pronounced as "f". We share (the latin) alphabet, and English has absolutely no authority, given how incon…
No one cares what Germans think about people abusing their language. I personally have zero issues with accents or mispronunciations here and there by non-native speakers. That smells of "fear of the other" to me and taking easy potshots at people I consider my full equal isn't cool. If I feel a little "anger" then that's a fallacy in me not in their pronunciation. As long as I can understand we're good otherwise we'll work it out someway or other.
Re: Voltswagen of America
#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the best evidence yet that this is indeed an April Fool's prank.
I'm not certain but if they were serious there would be legal filings of some sort. I'm not an expert in trademarks and I understand that sometimes trademarks can be filed but held in confidence until a company is ready--Apple does this if I recall correctly. Whois is also less than certain. Domain redirects to a generic parking site. https://www.whois.com/whois/voltswagen.com
(IAAL but this is not legal advice, and I could be incorrect in certain aspects. Consult a licensed attorney for legal advice.)
With respect to the USPTO, I believe only patent applications can be filed confidentially. FCC applications can also be filed confidentially. But I believe trademark applications are published immediately upon filing, because the essence of a trademark is use in commerce. You don't need to file a trademark application with the USPTO to be protected by trademark law, but it is an important element of notice, which is relevant when determining certain aspects of infringement claims.