Xi is indeed a control-freak, but the authoritarianism won’t end with him. The CCP itself is composed of mostly self-interested corrupt officials that will always somewhat align with a Xi-like agenda. Xi may disappear, but the structure that was set up to keep the Chinese people under lock and key will likely remain…

CATL is the biggest name in EV batteries, supplying everyone from Tesla to BMW to Mercedes with cells to run their electric cars. American lawmakers, however, see Chinese manufacturing and appear to enter some sort of bloodlust state — tripping over each other to ban the company from bringing goods into the …

The unresearched question, at least for me, is WHY it doesn’t exist. I don’t have enough insight into materials costs, labor costs, and the scales of economy to produce an immediate “how to make it happen NOW” paper, but I like to see the supremacy of engineering make things possible.

Instead of a gold-plated Cybertruck, I’d like a sub $12,000 durable EV with moderate range.

A few cans of spray paint and I’ll have the problem all sorted out!

So what happens after a year or so, if Elmo is completely, totally, cut off from all judgment-influencing substances?

When did law become a concern in that particular personal sphere?

Didn’t Ford have an EV back in those days?

All of that is nice, but how about recommending him something that costs less than $30,000, so he can have TWO of them???

They need a lot more attention these days.

Judgment-impairing drinks, tokes and smokes - the new evolutionary filter for humankind.

There’s another article about the emissions of the Icon.  I wonder if a towed solar/wind/tidal array would help with that?

The cruising on the ocean, the touristy stops, and so forth, do appeal quite a bit to lots of people.  And sometimes you can get deals that make the week-long experience cheaper than if you just did a week-long road trip.

Mentioned above, but it takes a LOT of effort to go over the sides of one of these.  He probably had to do some climbing to earn his fall.

My kid’s going to get that canary yellow 1973 station wagon and he’s going to like it!

I must have missed this one... was this Best Korea in response to The Interview?

Lack of meds for this lady?  This is why we need Obamacare for everyone!

If Chevy can overcome the inertia of being a major corporation with a flock of dividend-hungry investor-class “skeletonize the company for a quick payday” vampires on its neck, then perhaps they could pull a Toyota on the market, getting a ton of cheap, but durable EVs in that make the other companies run to their…

Half of each. While “Tom’s do-it-yourself Space Telescope” isn’t going to be available in Walmart today, the companies that NASA contracts with for this kind of work shouldn’t be allowed to leave the state of manufacture and assembly in such a way as to prevent cost-effective follow-up on a product.

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