Telecommuting is the right answer to virtually resolve everything, and Nuclear reactors to resolve power consumption/production. It’s not black and white, but I see no downside to it...potential Chernobyl pt 2 aside.

Oh goodness, the bZ4X is a terrible name.

I live in an apartment and there’s someone in my complex with a Tesla. We do not have onsite charging. I assume they plug in at work.

and we are starting to see what happens when that social contract is largely discarded

given pandemic and threat of WWIII, people subconsciously don’t value life as much as before

A girl can dream.

Or the library system could work with another town or county agency to get the big stuff moved around — goodness knows my county Department of Public Works has vehicles, including a lift-gate box truck, that could haul things like an engine hoist. Maybe tool rentals don’t get moved every day of the week, but it…

Libraries are one of my favorite things. Not only do they house tools, but they have games, technology and of course books/knowledge.

In California and Nevada we have the Link+ system:

EXACTLY...Total moronic ass-hats! One mistake, and you flip over, killing the ass-hat moron hanging out the passenger side door or the sun roof! It is called “Manslaughter’, I.E. 7 to life if convicted!

Aerial footage shared by police shows one of the vehicles involved travelling in totally sick circles around the intersection at a bitchin’ high rate of speed, while hundreds of thrilled people look on in utter amazement.

You can imagine what kinds of shapes and messages were drawn with the fire hoses.

13 ‘Challenges’ That Prove Older Generations Were As Stupid As TikTok Teens

you’re still saddled with a ho-hum 280 HP 2.0L 4-cylinder

You absolutely CANNOT depend on there being a charger available at the airport.

Not an ideal use case - the capital cost is too high, and the cost to add a 240V charger to house with only 100A service is WAAAY too high.

60% of electricity in the US is sourced from fossil fuels, so I don’t think that E85 is any more carbon unneutral than using an EV. Also, let’s not talk about Lithium mining and battery disposal or recycling; that will be Gen Alpha’s problem to fix.

...and that my friends is how you announce you’re no fun at parties.

Campers, SxSs, watercraft of people who don’t live on water; all of these redneck hobbies contribute to climate change and I wish there were some way to minimize them. I know that we have freedom but it seems to manifest in the freedom to do dumb wasteful stuff.

“China imported about 3.7 million tons of thermal coal, the primary fuel for electricity production, from Russia in September, customs data showed. That’s up 28% from August and more than 230% higher than a year ago.”