Of course it was met with bipartisan support.  The GOP will support anything they can attack the Dems with.  Rationality plays no part in this equation.

They’re digging their own graves by doing so, and speeding up the shift to renewables.

Russian oil makes up <3% of our annual supply. It wont effect us nearly as much as Europe. Also worth mentioning, this decision was met with bipartisan support.

The psychotic hypocrisy of Republicans kills me... They’re now effing animals incapable of thinking rationally.

My wife and I have a five-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter. My wife, myself, and the two kids can easily fit in my car (2016 Mazda6). It gets 40 MPG on the highway and can make it to the Florida state line (at the panhandle) from our home in Kentucky on just over 1 tank of gas.

Mother in law is retired and not using her plug in so now I am using it for work on the days I actually drive in, 54 miles round trip in often heavy LA traffic. The other days, I work from home or take the train. I know everyone is not able to do this, but trying to do my part to use less, pay less.

2. From what I’ve read, Russian oil is selling at a big discount. The high prices are helping everybody else, including Canadian and US oil producers.

That’s precisely who they are trying to annoy.

Tangentially, I’ve never really considered an EV (partly as a consequence of not having access to good charging options in my building), but between Razputin, the Saudis (or really just the whole Gulf states), Venezuela, etc., my wife and I are seriously considering one for the first time.

“only 0.5 percent of the cars in Russia are EVs”

Sweden sending 5000 anti-tank missiles to Ukraine seems like a good sign.

it looks like it is, between the Ukraine holding them back when most expectations were that Ukraine would have been taken over at this point combined with the majority of the world not only calling calling them out for it but also backing it up with extreme sanctions (Even Switzerland “the land of Neutrality” has…

I really hope this whole Ukraine thing completely blows up in Putin’s face. It’s definitely looking that way as Russia’s economy is in absolute shambles after less than a week.

Cars may be safer from a crash test point of view...but there are also a lot of huge cars and trucks, and cars that are obscenely fast, and some that are both huge and insanely fast.  Combine that with a low point of entry to get/keep a drivers license and a lot of people who drive like selfish, reckless idiots, and…

Nobody’s talking about ongoing support of software in older EVs either, leading to a doomsday scenario in my brain where your car gets updates for about as long as a $200 Android phone does, and discarded just as quickly. I can’t wait until we have to reconcile these things — it’s going to be great.

Yep, a junkyard salvages the most valuable parts. There’s lots of battery modules from scrap yards that sell for good money on EBay. While I don’t doubt there may be scrap yards out there still ignorant about EVs and might just crush the car, I think that will be rare going forward due to economic incentives not to do…

The updated studies say it’s actually a lot better than previously estimated, given previous studies largely assumed the battery production was powered by dirty electricity sources like coal, when in reality the energy mix has changed and gotten cleaner. Batteries also are using less materials per kWh (the main…

“if we are crap at it with cell phones and laptops why will we suddenly be good at it with BEVs?”

we do a better job of it with normal batteries because most stores have a core charge to encourage people to bring them back for recycling. Similar sorts of incentives would need to be deployed to make sure salvage yards aren’t just dumping batteries in landfills.

The two problems aren’t equivalent, though. Fossil fuel extraction has huge issues, both environmentally and what it does to countries where the wealth that comes from it fuels social problems and political upheaval, or in terms of resource wars. Lithium mining, like any resource extraction, has similar issues - but…