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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
I swapped my Tesla for a BYD after getting frustrated with Elon Musk. It was the right decision, but there are some things I miss.
Mahican Gielen is a radiologist in Denmark who swapped her Tesla for a BYD Sealion 7 in April. Gielen sold her Tesla in part because of Elon Musk's political interventions. She said the BYD was well-built but lacked some of Tesla's technological features. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mahican Gielen, a radiologist in Hjørring, Denmark, about swapping her Tesla Model 3 for a BYD Sealion 7. It has been edited for length and clarity. We live in Denmark, in the city of Hjørring, but we're actually from Holland. My husband and I are both doctors: I'm a radiologist, and he's a cardiologist. I bought a Tesla Model 3 three years ago. It was my first electric car, and I'd wanted a Tesla for years. My kids even pushed me because they knew I was looking for a car. They said: "Mom, it should be a Tesla. That's the best car. It's a green car. It saves the planet." I have to say, I loved that car. It was such a big step up from the normal combustion engines and had so many cool features. I still miss it sometimes. The first time I got a bit annoyed with my Tesla was when the company started cutting the prices. I bought mine right before, so that hurt. Elon Musk joining the Trump administration was the final straw. I love cars, but if owning one gets overruled by the constant noise about the CEO and people asking whether it bothers me, then the fun goes out of it. I just didn't want the headache anymore. I know there is more to the company. But when you have a CEO who's so visible, he just becomes one with the company. And I really feel bad for Tesla because I like the brand. They were so innovative and new. But this was a step too far. It really made me say, you know what? I'm going to get rid of this car. It's not going to get any better from here, so I'll just cut my losses. I sold my Model 3 for 150,000 Danish Krone, or about $22,000, in April, having paid 350,000 Krone for it in 2022, and I bought a BYD Sealion 7 Excellence the same month. [Editor's Note: BI was unable to verify the purchase price of Gielen's BYD Sealion 7 Excellence. It starts from roughly 390,000 Danish krone, or about $59,000.] I wasn't going to buy an SUV, but I saw the Sealion 7 in a showroom and thought it looked amazing. It was a little bit impulsive, but I'm really happy with it. The build quality is on a level with a Mercedes, and the car feels really premium. Things are different, but it has so many cool features, like a head-up display and actual physical buttons, which I missed as the Tesla didn't have them. The best thing about the car is how solid it is. I always tell people the Tesla felt like a toy car compared to this one, because it was always rattling. Sometimes, when it was freezing, you couldn't close the door because it wouldn't catch, and when you drove the Tesla around in the rain, sometimes you would hear sloshing sounds like water was dripping in the car. So the build quality is completely different. The range is more than enough for me, and the software works pretty well. It's a bit slower and less intuitive than the software in the Tesla, but overall, I like it. I think it's great that Chinese EV brands are entering Europe. I absolutely believe that the market should be open, and they have something to offer. For me, many European brands seem kind of boring. They do the same thing every time, and these brands do something new. Even if people don't buy them, it will probably make the European brands push their boundaries a bit and do more stuff. So I think it's absolutely good for everyone if more become available in Europe. There are a few features I still miss about the Tesla, but I'm hoping they could be added to the BYD with software updates. The Tesla auto-locks and unlocks when you just have your phone in your bag or on you. In the BYD, I really had to get used to pushing the button on the car key to lock and unlock. When you charged your car, the Tesla automatically opened its charger port flap and closed it again. I have been driving around with an open flap because I'm so used to it. My kids also really loved the Tesla's "Santa Mode," and the Tesla app has a lot more features than the BYD one. The feature I'm really going to miss is that Tesla automatically defrosted the windows via the app. So, I didn't have to remove ice for the last few years. It's not a problem now, but I know it's going to be annoying in the winter. You could overlook some of the things that were wrong with the Tesla because it was so easy to use, it was almost like an iPhone. But in the end, some things are just not right. Part of the reason I sold the car was because of the build quality. Mine was beginning to get a bit older, and I was in the shop with it more and more. The path Musk has taken is extremely frustrating. It seriously hurts because I was really rooting for the brand. I think it's sad for a company that was so promising and could have done much more. Have you swapped your Tesla for a BYD or bought a Chinese EV? Contact this reporter at tcarter@ Read the original article on Business Insider
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
I swapped my Tesla for a BYD after getting frustrated with Elon Musk. It was the right decision, but there are some things I miss.
Mahican Gielen is a radiologist in Denmark who swapped her Tesla for a BYD Sealion 7 in April. Gielen sold her Tesla in part because of Elon Musk's political interventions. She said the BYD was well-built but lacked some of Tesla's technological features. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mahican Gielen, a radiologist in Hjørring, Denmark, about swapping her Tesla Model 3 for a BYD Sealion 7. It has been edited for length and clarity. We live in Denmark, in the city of Hjørring, but we're actually from Holland. My husband and I are both doctors: I'm a radiologist, and he's a cardiologist. I bought a Tesla Model 3 three years ago. It was my first electric car, and I'd wanted a Tesla for years. My kids even pushed me because they knew I was looking for a car. They said: "Mom, it should be a Tesla. That's the best car. It's a green car. It saves the planet." I have to say, I loved that car. It was such a big step up from the normal combustion engines and had so many cool features. I still miss it sometimes. The first time I got a bit annoyed with my Tesla was when the company started cutting the prices. I bought mine right before, so that hurt. Elon Musk joining the Trump administration was the final straw. I love cars, but if owning one gets overruled by the constant noise about the CEO and people asking whether it bothers me, then the fun goes out of it. I just didn't want the headache anymore. I know there is more to the company. But when you have a CEO who's so visible, he just becomes one with the company. And I really feel bad for Tesla because I like the brand. They were so innovative and new. But this was a step too far. It really made me say, you know what? I'm going to get rid of this car. It's not going to get any better from here, so I'll just cut my losses. I sold my Model 3 for 150,000 Danish Krone, or about $22,000, in April, having paid 350,000 Krone for it in 2022, and I bought a BYD Sealion 7 Excellence the same month. [Editor's Note: BI was unable to verify the purchase price of Gielen's BYD Sealion 7 Excellence. It starts from roughly 390,000 Danish krone, or about $59,000.] I wasn't going to buy an SUV, but I saw the Sealion 7 in a showroom and thought it looked amazing. It was a little bit impulsive, but I'm really happy with it. The build quality is on a level with a Mercedes, and the car feels really premium. Things are different, but it has so many cool features, like a head-up display and actual physical buttons, which I missed as the Tesla didn't have them. The best thing about the car is how solid it is. I always tell people the Tesla felt like a toy car compared to this one, because it was always rattling. Sometimes, when it was freezing, you couldn't close the door because it wouldn't catch, and when you drove the Tesla around in the rain, sometimes you would hear sloshing sounds like water was dripping in the car. So the build quality is completely different. The range is more than enough for me, and the software works pretty well. It's a bit slower and less intuitive than the software in the Tesla, but overall, I like it. I think it's great that Chinese EV brands are entering Europe. I absolutely believe that the market should be open, and they have something to offer. For me, many European brands seem kind of boring. They do the same thing every time, and these brands do something new. Even if people don't buy them, it will probably make the European brands push their boundaries a bit and do more stuff. So I think it's absolutely good for everyone if more become available in Europe. There are a few features I still miss about the Tesla, but I'm hoping they could be added to the BYD with software updates. The Tesla auto-locks and unlocks when you just have your phone in your bag or on you. In the BYD, I really had to get used to pushing the button on the car key to lock and unlock. When you charged your car, the Tesla automatically opened its charger port flap and closed it again. I have been driving around with an open flap because I'm so used to it. My kids also really loved the Tesla's "Santa Mode," and the Tesla app has a lot more features than the BYD one. The feature I'm really going to miss is that Tesla automatically defrosted the windows via the app. So, I didn't have to remove ice for the last few years. It's not a problem now, but I know it's going to be annoying in the winter. You could overlook some of the things that were wrong with the Tesla because it was so easy to use, it was almost like an iPhone. But in the end, some things are just not right. Part of the reason I sold the car was because of the build quality. Mine was beginning to get a bit older, and I was in the shop with it more and more. The path Musk has taken is extremely frustrating. It seriously hurts because I was really rooting for the brand. I think it's sad for a company that was so promising and could have done much more. Have you swapped your Tesla for a BYD or bought a Chinese EV? Contact this reporter at tcarter@ Read the original article on Business Insider Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
NZ Herald
22-04-2025
- Politics
- NZ Herald
‘Everyone belonged': Local clergy reflect on Pope Francis' legacy
He sent it out on the St Mary's Catholic church's Facebook page and on the parish app. While he had never met Francis in person, he remembered seeing him from a distance when he visited St Peter's Square some years ago. 'I feel very privileged to have experienced 12 years of his papacy,' Field said. 'His message was that everyone belonged; he was all about inclusivity. Another constant memory was his commitment to peace and the futility of war.' Field said something that struck him was Francis was loved by people of all faiths. 'It was beautiful thing that he has been able to transcend all faiths.' A Requiem Mass or funeral mass will be held at St Mary's church at 5.30pm on Thursday. The usual 9pm mass will not go ahead. Gielen, who was a young priest at St Mary's in 1997, was in Gisborne on Monday to attend the funeral of former Herald editor Iain Gillies, who died last week (an obituary is to follow in the Herald). Gielen has a special connection to the region and is a close friend of the Gillies family. He attended Francis' election in March 2013 when he was in Rome doing post-graduate work. 'I was in the square when he was elected and saw the white smoke, which signals the Roman Catholic Church has a new leader.' He was among a crowd of between 3000 and 4000, which grew to about 100,000 after the Pope was elected. It was Francis who appointed him Bishop of Christchurch in 2019. Gielen is now based at The Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, where he celebrated a special mass on Tuesday and will celebrate again on Friday at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral 'to pray for the happy repose of the soul of Pope Francis'. He spoke of Francis' love for the poor and of his first papal trip outside Rome, which was to the Italian island of Lampedusa. This was where many young African migrants died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea as they tried to reach the shores of Europe in July 2013. It felt significant Francis died on Easter Monday, a time for continuing the celebration of the resurrection and for reflecting on its meaning, he said. Gielen caught his flight back to Christchurch after the funeral on Monday. He gifted Iain Gillies' widow Flora rosary beads blessed by the Pope.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Singularities Could Be Doorways to New Realities
A new study suggests that a black hole singularity—where time and matter are condensed into infinitely small space—could be a transition to a beginning. This beginning is a white hole—a theoretical object that acts in the reverse of black hole and essentially spews out information, matter, and time. Using the principles of quantum mechanics, the researchers attempted to rethink the nature of a black hole singularity using dimensional planar black holes. As the most exotic celestial object in the known universe, black holes have long been the obsession of science and science fiction alike. Films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Interstellar artfully ponder what happens to a human body beyond a black hole's event horizon—the point at which even light cannot escape the immense well of gravity. But scientists have been exploring more empirical ways to explain what happens at the singularity of a black hole—the theoretical point, infinitely small and infinitely dense, where all known physics breaks down. Most conceptions of a black hole focus on destruction. Were a person to somehow experience such a journey to the center of black hole, for example, their very atoms would be ripped apart in a process inventively called 'spaghettification.' However, a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Sheffield and Universidad Complutense de Madrid posits another outcome for all matter that enters the gaping maw of black hole: maybe it's not an end, but a beginning instead. The results of the study were published in the journal Physical Review Letters. 'It has long been a question as to whether quantum mechanics can change our understanding of black holes and give us insights into their true nature,' Steffen Gielen, the co-author of the paper from the University of Sheffield, said in a press statement. 'In quantum mechanics, time as we understand it cannot end as systems perpetually change and evolve.' The study uses a simplified theoretical model of a black hole (a two-dimensional planar black hole), but the authors say the same results would apply to a typical black hole. In this study, the authors suggest that instead of matter and time essentially being crushed into nothing, it may transition into a new phase called a 'white hole.' As its name suggests, a white hole is everything a black hole isn't. Instead of sucking in space and time, it regurgitates it back into the universe. In a 'woah, if true' statement, white holes could theoretically be where time begins. 'While time is, in general, thought to be relative to the observer, in our research time is derived from the mysterious dark energy which permeates the entire universe,' Gielen said in a press statement. 'We propose that time is measured by the dark energy that is everywhere in the universe, and responsible for its current expansion. This is the pivotal new idea that allows us to grasp the phenomena occurring within a black hole.' Gielen added that, theoretically, our previous black hole traveler could possibly move past singularity and emerge from a white hole. 'It's a highly abstract notion of an observer but it could happen, in theory,' he said. Of course, white holes are not a new idea, and were first proposed way back in the 1930s. But what little we know about black holes the same can be doubly said for white holes. For now, we may have to rely on the minds of artists to portray what exactly is going on in these immensely strange regions of deep space. You Might Also Like The Do's and Don'ts of Using Painter's Tape The Best Portable BBQ Grills for Cooking Anywhere Can a Smart Watch Prolong Your Life?
