I live in a city and rarely plug in at home in my extremely narrow driveway. Public charging works well enough, and I’ve made many road trips (including to remote parts of Maine in -10 to -20F) without trouble.

The bigger issue is the “War On Drugs” needs to be ended.

Okay, here we go with data:

Unless the litigant lies. Then they can rule on a hypothetical, even when the lie is glaring.

Civil asset forfeiture is not and never was any kind of due process and is a violation of the 4th Amendment AND eminent domain.

Civil Asset Forfeiture needs to die in a fire along with Qualified Immunity.  Make asset forfeiture only permissible after a criminal conviction,  none of this BS put the object on trial heads I win tails you lose BS and make police and prosecutors criminally liable. 

Now this is really an interesting question — does Thomas side with the poor Alabama town that is funding its police dept with unethical asset forfeiture, or does he side with the poor woman. I’m guessing if it came down to it, being poor is pretty damn offensive to Thomas so he’ll fund the police department that’s…

“Clearly there are some jurisdictions that are using civil forfeiture as funding mechanisms,”

People have been saying [hoping] for so long that the major manufacturers could just whip up a factory and competitive EVs, that even the major manufacturers believed it.

The demand for all new cars are slowing, no? Not just EVs. And many used dealers were burned when Tesla slashed their MSRPs. And the problem is not range. It is Rapid Chargers and Charging Speeds. If I had only 240 miles of range, but could use 100% of it and go to any gas station and top off in 10-15 minutes another…

Toyota Austraila sells this kind of thing new, still:

I like how they all pretend that civil asset forfeiture is reasonable and ethical, and that it just needs to be more efficient.

I slept in the back of my long box single cab truck all over the place. I miss 8ft beds. 

“Is this the case that presents the due process problem that we should be worried about?”

1st Gear - Why are automakers surprised that a majority of the car-driving population can’t or doesn’t want to afford a vehicle that costs well over $50K, especially in a softening economy? I am in the market for an EV with a maximum budget of $80K and could care less if the car has the capability of going 0-60 in…

This is what you need for a ranch in one of the lumpier parts of the country.

The key issue here is going to be how much money Alabama has donated to Clarence Thomas and his wife.  

The state has a strong interest in making sure that crime doesn’t pay... except for the police agencies that perform the asset forfeiture, many of whom directly profit by receiving any revenue from the disposal of the seized property.

“LaCour argued that “ample process was provided” and that the state had “a strong interest as well in making sure that crime doesn’t pay.””

This issue extends to owners of cars that have been stolen and just taken for simple joyrides. The notification system that the cars have been recovered is painfully slow and at times bordering on intentional. Between towing fees, impound fees and the real concern jurisdictions are hoping to auction off the property…