“I need a pickup so I can haul a friend’s stuff twice a year.”

Lucid provides the batteries for Formula E.

EPA testing is done in a controlled environment, aka, a dyno, so that external factors can be controlled.

I was going to wait and see how long it took for the Tesla cultists to arrive and proclaim either that Lucid is lying or the car is useless aside from its range for some other issue, or that Musk will release a car with 600 mile per charge range next week (which begs the question, if they can, why did they wait for…

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Nothing, other than the fact that the kids on Twitter don’t know or care about 1099 employees that they don’t see, so they don’t make noise about it.

Yes they are in formula e.

Further, the Lucid Air is expected to cost something north of $100,000

Or his/her skills are more than I can drive a 20 year old car.

I WON’T BE SATISFIED UNTIL I CAN DRIVE 1000 MILES WITH BOTH THE A/C AND HEAT ON FULL, IN -40°F WEATHER WHILE GOING 90MPH, BEFORE I HAVE TO RECHARGE IN 20 SECONDS!

I drive from Ohio to North Dakota weekly. So this vehicle will be a failure.

“My daily commute is 600 miles each way through rocky terrain that requires a foot of ground clearance and also I need to haul two motorcycles everywhere I go. I live in a remote area of the Yukon Territories and there is no electricity near me. This is why EVs are useless and no one should care about them until they…

Just kidding, the people that fret over range anxiety will always fret over range anxiety

Words have definitions. That’s why it’s not a “depression”. Your personal perceptions and feelings don’t make it one.

Yes, they would be on rock solid ground, but no paying passenger wants this alternative model that you are proposing. You might as well require only flying cars can apply.

Legistlators are just looking for their 15 minutes of fame which will then boost their careers. They are not working for the law, the people, their bureau. They are working for their activist pyramid, putting on shows like this to score ‘wins’ to advertise to others as their achievements.

This ruling is based purely on emotion. Drivers really don’t meet the standard of being employees. They aren’t scheduled like employees, they aren’t accountable like employees, and they aren’t paid like employees. The design of rideshare platforms and the appeal to a large number of drivers is to let you make extra…

I think the ultimate downside of this is that there’s going to be a LOT less drivers. If they’re W2 employees, that means that all sorts of payroll taxes/etc need to be paid, they’ll absolutely have people working for more than 32 hours a week and need to offer them benefits, it’ll be harder to hire and harder to fire…

Today, California ruled that Uber and Lyft must stop pretending that their drivers are independent contractors and start treating them for what they are: employees.

“...during an economic depression.”