Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@qoto.org

It is fairly obvious that a car company like Ford would want a market like the UK to mandate EVs.

Firstly let me say that I like EVs, the internal combustion engine was always flawed, and moving towards motors that don't require complex gearboxes because their torque curves are so good is overall a GOOD thing for cars. Not only that but they are super quiet too and also they keep pollution out of cities and this is hugely beneficial for people's health.

But let's look at two markets that I know well. The UK car market and the Filipino car market.

The UK has a Ford EV called the Mustang Match-E, this is a mid-size crossover that's comparable size-wise to the Ford Territory and Ford Equators sold in Asia. The difference is that the Match-E starts at £51k here and the Territory starts under £19k in the Philippines.

It doesn't take a genius to work out that Ford wants to see a return on their investment in EVs by mandating them! The £51k crossover is more profitable than the £19k crossover. #EV #uk

@KiwiEV I just really like EVs :) every car can be a torquey thing that's never annoying to drive when you hit the hills. Even a small economy car like this.

@Rjdlandscapes @ukuku @KiwiEV at this rate that's the best thing that could happen to GM. And this is coming from someone who historically was a huge Chevy fan.

@Dozer old meme, still funny :)

@thejpster isn't a circle an equisided polygon where the number of sides tends to infinity?

@jellycrystals It's amazing how influential a teacher can be. A bad teacher could sway a smart kid away from pursuing a particular subject in the future. So much wasted potential.

@maxim wow! Graphically so cool!

@Rjdlandscapes sometimes reality looks like an Unreal demo.

@Solid_Snail I'm actually super impressed by this port, sure some slow loading, but graphically it is fine. The Switch is today's ZX Spectrum, conversions are compromised but impressive nonetheless.

The upcoming #Xbox controller seems to be pulling #Microsoft out of the controller dark ages straight into the present.

Two key features that were sorely needed are shown here:

* Accelerometer: Gyro aiming has become essential to many for FPS games, the days of having to use a third-party controller that allows you to map the gyro to the mouse or stick will finally be over! Native gyro implementations will be possible.

* Direct to cloud: Bringing the Stadia controller experience to Microsoft cloud gaming, this is really nice to have too! While Microsoft's cloud gaming isn't anywhere near as usable as #Stadia was it is slowly improving, I hope that eventually, it will catch up to where #google was years ago.

#gaming

@gamingonlinux great! Nice bunch of folk.