@etchedpixels precisely THAT is my gripe.

If #CarManufacturers weren't hell-bent on making #cars (as per EC Vehicle Class M1), hey could easily do #CabinScooters of the #L2e & #L5e class for < €5k retail at dealerships and still make profit.due to #EconomiesOfScale.

• #CitroenAmi & #OpenRocks are kinda halfassed as they are half-baked efforts that work at reducing #FleetEmissions first and foremost!

#WhatsMissing are more #PersonalLightVehicles instead of #SuperUselessVehicles!

https://github.com/KBtechnologies/PLV

We have @EUCommission [rightfully!] crack down on #cars and their #emissions by demanding ever lower #FleetEmissions and #FuelConsumption numbers but still accept #Bloatware like shitty #WebApps and #Windows11 to demand so much #WastefulComputing that it's painful.

• Margaret Hammond and Grace Hopper must be rotating in their graves, pointing out how they got people on the moon with less storage than the SPD-ROM on a RAM stick and how their programming language still runs #TradFinance like a clockwork respectably, but somehow sending text messages is too much for a machine that costs €499 yet has more computational power than all the machines they worked on combined.

#WastefulComputing like all those phat & enshittified messengers should be illegal.

• Espechally since they have 0 reason to be that resource intensive, even if we believe some of their security-focussed marketing lies.