They're likely preparing for their funding from Google to be cut. Having a lot of money in the bank doesn't matter if your income is lower than expenses, since you'll run out of money eventually.
dan
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I wouldn't mind paying money for a good browser. I paid for Opera back in the day, and browsers are significantly more complex (and cost several orders of magnitude more to develop) now compared to back then.
There's also a new browser based on Firefox/Gecko called Zen. There's way too many browsers based on Webkit or Blink.
Makes sense.
My wife and I don't commute very far so an EV is fine for us even if we can only charge it with 120V initially (until we install a proper charger in our garage). We've got a BMW iX on order.
Tesla is opening superchargers to all brands eventually. That'll help a lot, as will the inevitable changes that'll happen to gas stations where they replace some pumps with EV chargers.
Range is definitely an issue, but it's improving over time. 10 years ago, the average EV range was around 100 miles. I know BMW have tested a prototype car with ~600 mile range, and that tech should hopefully come with their Neue Klasse vehicles some time in 2026/2027. The Lucid Air gets around 500 miles range. Our current gas car (2012 Mazda 3) only gets around 360 miles until the gas light comes on, so it's not actually that different for us.
It might be too large for your use case, but have you looked at the Kia EV9? The EV6 might be worth looking at too.
Not all manufacturers use adaptive headlights, and on some cars it's only available as an upgrade whereas there's a lot of people driving base models.
I saw this, but apparently the European ones don't meet the US guidelines, and the Euro manufacturers aren't yet redesigning and recertifying their headlights to meet the US guidelines. The two brands I was looking at (BMW and Porsche) both still have this feature disabled on their 2025 US models.
Porsche are kinda doing this with their modern cars (e.g. see the inside of the Macan EV). They have flat capacitive buttons, which are better than a touch screen, but still not as good as actual proper buttons.
There's no winning. Some people use the regular version and complain about the updates, while others use the ESR release and complain that sites that use cutting-edge features don't work properly.
The solution to updates is to use Linux, since then it'll update through your distro's package manager along with your other software.