In Washington, any street corner is legally a crossing point for pedestrians, FWIW. But it is risky since most auto drivers just don’t give a shit.

My five person family travels once every summer to Pacific City, Oregon (~300 miles) for our vacation. It is neither “non-stop” (kids ensure that) nor “1/3 of the way across the country”. When we stop for petrol we also get food simultaneously and have a particular place we stop to permit that. Would it matter to me…

That is not true. The majority of Americans rarely (if ever) go on a long non-stop drive like that.

Average is 400 miles on a tank and all of the cars you listed were partially EVs (“Hybrid”) or diesel, so they certainly do not fall into the definition of a standard gasoline ICE vehicle. But, to your point — the number of 400 mile range EVs is still very small, though I do not believe that is what is primarily…

500+ miles of range? I don’t know the numbers but I am going to guess you are talking about a minority of ICE vehicles. (My Honda Prelude gets ~300.) And the number of people that fix their own cars? Talk about a minority of that minority. And, FWIW, I have fixed the only “problem” that showed up on my 2014 Nissan…

Duel is “okay”, at best. My daughter and I watched it a year ago (we are huge Poltergeist and Jaws fans) and were surprised only by the fact that it did not remotely match the expectations others had set for it.

According to the manufacturers at the time it would. Which is similar to the situation we are in today.

OPEC manipulates the price to their liking by changing their production amount. Even if the U.S. was 100% BEV, the oil prices would be set by the global price — we would just refine significantly less unleaded gasoline and, instead, ship our oil production overseas.

In urban areas (at least here on the west coast) there are public chargers everywhere. Even so, I do question whether I would own an EV if I had to pay something resembling gas prices (per mile) to drive one - or, if I did, I would expect the same easy credit card payment system that are used at gas stations. Instead,…

Your point makes sense when it is a level playing field. China with their zero respect of IP and creative interpretation of labor practices has a way to manufacture goods at a price that Europe and the U.S. cannot compete with. Clearly we look the other way with an AliExpress Totoro shower curtain but are not so…

Yes, having experienced the rail system in Europe, I would happily take twice the travel time to be able to enjoy the travel versus doing sky-high sardine impersonations.

Those stats do not compare the same type of miles driven. Humans need to drive vehicles on all roads in all situations whereas “Full Self Driving” is limited to the safest / easiest driving situations.

We could save ~30% of the gasoline consumed on freeway travel by enforcing a 55 MPH (or less) speed limit. Simple to do when typed out like that, extremely difficult to do in the real world.

Shhh. Don’t tell Elon. His middle school antics combined with his middle school level of tech knowledge brings pure joy.

I’ll ignore the fact that this has been talked about for a decade and has not changed in America. Who knows. Maybe if hydrogen air travel and trucking start grooving then we will see green hydrogen hit 25% of the American market in a decade. However, as it relates to automobiles, the fact it isn’t close to being green…

I hate to break the news to you but, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, America’s hydrogen is over 95% grey. It is nice to talk about a spectrum of possible sources but in the good old US of A, we only make the dark stuff.

Well, other than all the methane used to create that hydrogen. But, hey - no emissions at the tailpipe, which is all that matters.

But how much better would they be selling if Musk wasn’t connected to them? I don’t think any of us know the answer, but it is realistic to think that it is still a significant drag on sales.

You are pretending there is a choice when, to achieve our climate goals, none exists. We have to be working on winding down all carbon emissions and find a way to pull carbon from the air or society as we know it today is fucked.

Well, on the bright side, at least you get free porn and cat videos now.