“You won’t be able to charge your car and you’ll be happy” Klaus Schwab.

Car makers have made repairing an older car and keeping it on the road more cost effective. As long as you have even a semi reliable car, keep driving it.

Exactly the same experience I had in Barcelona. Never needed a car there and I had access to one.

I think the market may meet in the middle as a compromise, save as much fuel as possible with battery tech while keeping the flexibility of the ICE engine. Some say that is the worst of both worlds but the tech is mature enough at this point and the fact that there are many 10 year old hybrids still on the road…

If EV cost doesn’t crush the big 3, the supply of metals needed for EV may. A lot of talk about alternative metals for batteries instead of cobalt, but no cars use this yet, so we are many years from getting that into the market. In the meantime adoption will be slow as the public gets more and more fickle about EVs.…

I have a heat pump but in the north part of North America and Canada, you don’t want to rely just on that

We have water shortages. Time for no shower June.

next up, banning heating your home in the winter. Freeze to death you plebes!

Maybe the government will pave over them, that’ll help the environment.

probably talk down to $2K, it’s basically small change for a running car. Maybe spend the time and money getting the interior back to acceptable condition. Hopefully we see more cars at the sub 5k level for the poors that can’t afford new or premium used and have no other transportation options.

1.2L? why not just use a hamster?

The TTC has the third most expensive fares in the world. Raising it will just drive more people off the service or increase fare evasion, especially from those that cannot already afford it. If our feckless politicians would properly fund it these increases would not be necessary. 

Bye? what are you, five? I don’t live in Taxifornia anyways so there is no bye.

I have been on both sides of the coin. I did not own a car when I lived in a European city, as soon as I got back to Toronto I had to buy a car due to my job location and the fact that the TTC just keeps getting worse and worse despite new lines being built (but not opened yet). I did buy a modest reliable used car as…

Glib answer, but how do people charge unplugged cars?

aaaand California continues to give people great reasons to leave the state.

I wonder how these green unemployed leeches heat their homes (tents?) and if they grow their own food. Also if they are anti war, which is one of the most environmentally unfriendly practice. 

He could try and sell the Taurus and get a similar year fusion with the 2.5 litre NA engine, they are good engines and pretty good on gas. If he plays it right he could be very little out of pocket.

I’m keeping our aging 2010 cx7 for a few more years, we have a 2020 suv we bought just before prices went crazy, so the cx7 is a backup car anyways. If I bought a second new car now it would be for my own ego and not because I need one.

lol COVID, how do you panickers manage to get out of bed in the morning?