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Toyota launched its cheapest EV in China and it crashed the server starting at just $15,000 (electrek.co)
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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

After securing over 10,000 orders in just one hour, Toyota boasted again that “the server is overwhelmed.”

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Oh right, that's a satisfactory explanation, thank you.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

10000 doesn't seem like a lot of requests to knock over a server.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was being run on a Commadore 64.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

I stand corrected, it's impressive af