Georgia charges $200/year for EV registration to “make up” for the decrease in gas tax revenues. Current gas tax in GA is $0.3515/gallon, so my break-even point would be 569 gallons of fuel annually in a comparable gasoline-powered car to my Model 3.

15 million vehicles * 50 kwh / 10 hrs/night = 75 MW.  California currently has 80,000 MW of power plant capacity.   Seems like charging will not be an issue.

Washington state is charging EVs $150 extra a year in car registration fees, which comes out to paying MORE than if I was driving a similar sized gasoline car.  $50 of that fee is specifically for charging stations.

Most streetlights were installed when the power requirements for lighting were much higher. The LED lights that replaced the discharge lamps use very little power.

Thats a false assumption, there have been plenty of studies proving it can easily handle EVs. Most charge overnight.

As much as CA electric grid sucks, somehow it does not stop it from being a leader in electric car adoption. Weird. 

I don’t see why we need this... Telsa owners have already demonstrated that you can just pull onto any convenient lawn and plug in to the homeowner’s outlets!

One good place to put chargers would be apartment complex parking lots. My commute is <10 miles, I could easily drive an electric car... except I have nowhere to charge it. I’ve even talked to the leasing company about paying to have one installed, they won’t try to bring it up with corporate unless I actually commit…

This is false. I have not ever, nor will I ever, write a story at the behest of an advertiser. I write what I want to write.

There is a wall between our ad team and our editorial team,  which is good, because Jalopnik writes with its readers in mind, and never with advertisers in mind.

That's pretty cynical. It's time for a big project, like going to the moon, the new deal, or manhattan project. It can be done.

You make an excellent point. What’s also unique about Jalopnik, besides the (mostly) quality writing, is the staff seems genuinely invested in the commentariat.

That’s a good question. My view is: If you don’t know that you own car stock, then you can’t be influenced to write a certain way. That’s what matters: objectivity.

No decent journalist really gives a shit about that, it’s all just fun and games. And if that influences a person’s reviews, they find themselves out of a job pretty quickly.

I wonder what is going on internally at Jalopnik that attracts such excellent writers/enables such excellent writing. As a reader, I fell respected by both you and by Jalopnik that you got meta regarding the norms of journalistic ethics suddenly applying to a class of professionals who may not think of themselves as…

You can absolutely divulge that Munro had purchased and sold Tesla stock this year without giving a jackass like Niedermayer any credence.

Am I reading this right? Niedermeyer has issues with Munro being critical of Tesla but also owning Tesla stock? How was he ‘pumping their stock’ by saying “The new Tesla is less shit than the old Tesla”?

I am always puzzled by the popularity that Priuses maintain with how ugly they are. I get they are well-made and efficient, but once they finally put the hybrid drivetrain in the Camry, I figured people would stop buying the Prius.

Toyota has pretty much only made ugly cars the last 20 or so years, with exceptions of course. Heck, even the new edgy looking style they are going for is almost over the top ridiculous. I’m currently dailying an ‘05 camry, and this thing is friggin’ hideous. But runs and drives like champ so I love it. hahaha

Owned several Toyotas in the past, love the reliability.  Not the point I know, but how did they manage to make the damned thing so ugly?  That Prius in the pic is atrocious looking.

Can’t say this is very shocking. People that buy Priuses are either people that care about the environment and don’t want to be wasteful, or are people that really don’t care about cars/image, often both.