Thomas Ricker

Apple’s obsessive focus on design, ease of use, and profit comes into conflict with Goldman’s focus on... profit, and their combined interest to not be seen as preying on people with poor credit or biased against women with better credit given worse terms than their husbands. Now Goldman wants out — as already reported — as it shifts away from the consumer strategy it once embraced.

“This account is no longer active,” reads the @twitter account bio, which is now protected. “Follow @x.”

The new law just approved by the EU Council requires 150kW (minimum) chargers to be placed along major TEN-T highways “from 2025 onward.” Payment must support cards or contactless devices and without any subscriptions, and operators must clearly communicate pricing and availability.

The WSJ says that daily active users declined 70 percent to 13 million from its peak (Sensor Tower) and average time users spent in apps decreased to four minutes from 19 minutes (SimilarWeb). Meanwhile, Twitter’s daily active users are unchanged at about 200 million and spend an average of 30 minutes a day on Musk’s not-really-free speech hobby (Sensor Tower).

How long until he becomes will.i.am.ai, bitch?

The new Solis Pocket 36B comes standard with an EcoFlow PowerKit I reviewed last year. It starts with a 5kWh battery that can be expandable to 15kWh, which is a ton of LFP storage capacity for a van. It’s available to buy in the US and Canada from August.

The transformable Ventje interior I reviewed last summer is now available in Europe on Volkswagen’s all-electric ID Buzz that I reviewed a few months ago. The eVentje sleeps four and prices start at €95,000 for the Microbuzz plus interior. Delivery takes about nine months, which is a lot sooner than VW will release an official ID California campervan.