Wow, good thing we have 15 years to solve that problem!

“Until someone can come up with a study that shows how my F-150 is hurting the planet more than battery production and disposal, I’m calling bullshit.” There are plenty of studies; you’ve just made your mind up and refuse to change it. Unfortunately for you, most other people know we can’t continue selling millions of…

No. The deadlines are what spur investment and advancement. Nobody is going to do shit until they are forced to; a deadline puts everyone’s feet to the fire and say “get it done by 2035 or go out of business.”

There are multiple EVs NOW that are far, far less than the average price of a new ICE car. There are cheap EVs all over the used market. Banning the sale of NEW ICE cars won’t take a single gas-powered engine off the roads or off a used-car lot.

If you’ve got electricity, you’ve got a Level 2 charger. 

Every tax should universally be pegged to inflation. It is nearly criminally negligent for the legislature to let those be at a fixed price and not a percentage or pegged to inflation!

Yup, this. Road infrastructure repair budgets are low because the gas tax is low. EVs make up for an insignificant amount of road traffic, such that the account for virtually zero of any funding shortfall.

I don’t think anybody is considering getting RID of the gas tax. If anything, a coherent climate strategy requires accurately pricing gasoline to account for the negative externalities, which would be a large increase in the gas tax to fix that market failure (i.e., gasoline sellers/buyers offloading the harm done by…

There is the issue of the physical size/weight of batteries for a given range, but a Bolt is small, so a Veloster-sized car ought to have at least 250 miles. Unlike the new Mini with like, 140 miles (its designed as a “second car,” so I get it, but that still feels like a cop-out.)

The Model S was an absolutely style leader when it was introduced in what feels like 2005. 

#COTD

...holy shit, cringe.

Seeing as national forests are used currently for logging, and are criss-crossed with both electrical lines and gas stations, I’d say yes, of course, installing charging stations in parking lots where people ALREADY DRIVE in gas-powered cars is green.

Most obvious one? You think everbody else is a horrible driver. For the most part, interactions with other drivers are pleasant and courteous, to the point that you only remember bad drivers. If every trip to the supermarket turns you into a red-faced rage monster, you might try a bit of self-reflection. At any rate,…

Call me crazy, but I love the C4. Child of the 80s syndrome, I suspect.

RX-8. Something about rev'ing a car engine to 9,000 makes me giddy like a school-girl.

"I got a bunch of lawyers to help." Bravo. You have intelligent, thoughtful, helpful friends.

Funny, I always thought I was a Gemini. Whatever, I'LL TAKE IT!

That's because nobody wants to live in Indianapolis. Fo' reals.

Uhhh, by not being stuck in a car.