2030? You do realize that’s 6 years away. No way cities are going to move fast enough to make themselves more walk, bike and transit friendly.

I have no idea how that would work or how it would be profitable, but that’s the dream.

Moving from car oriented, suburban sprawl hell to transit oriented, walkable cities will be a long process, filled with a lot of disappointments, but a lot of people are getting on board with the idea. I think that by around 2030 or so a lot of major cities in the US will be very different, with really good bike…

I don’t know how it is now with their various electric models, but I worked at a group with a Volkswagen store when the eGolf came out, and they simply refused to sell the car or do the upgrades. Now they did later do the upgrades to add the charging stations for their Porsche store, but the eGolf wasn’t seen as worth…

I can’t afford a $32,000 car, let alone one twice that. And I drive my cars for 10+ years. In a decade will my electric car be as obsolete as an iPhone 5?

Live in the DC burbs. Our building built in the ‘60s just added 2 chargers (4 charging spaces total). It cost us over $50k, but with rebates will cost under $10k.

Let’s also not forget that dealers shot themselves in the foot with the ADM antics last year. Hell, up until ~May this year, the Ford dealer nearest to me was still putting 5k markups on non-GT Mach Es, and 15k markups on the GT variants.

It’s not really a secret that most car dealerships don’t actually like EVs. They need a lot less routine maintenance and repair than ICE vehicles which means dealers lose a lucrative source of revenue. They also require infrastructure that dealerships largely had to pay for. It’s not really a surprise that they are…

A guy that I work with was seeing someone that lived in a condo in Tyson’s Corner and bought a Tesla. I think the cost to get a charger installed at her parking space was something like $5K.  So she had to drive to a local supercharger out in the elements to charge up.

Yep. I have a garage but I cannot afford the electrical upgrade and I certainly cannot afford a new car... we live in interesting times.

They are not practical unless you have a garage and can install a charger someplace out in the burbs. In my DC condo building built in 1981, there is simply no way to add charging stations. Not unless you want to incur a special assessment of lots of money to do it. Most apartment and condo buildings in the city are…

“The dealers have pointed to a lack of demand for less-than-affluent customers”

“This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the show being covered here wouldn’t exist.”

Wow, didn’t even realize I’d done it. It also completely effs refreshing since it like loads the lower article. It’s so bad. 

These new scrolling articles suck real bad. It’s really easy to comment on the wrong article. Not your fault.

It will do what now? Why would we fucking rewrite what we know about a character that spans 9 god damn books over 3000 pages of lore and a videogame franchise????

I dunno, since the last season of The Boys was literally however many episodes to end up essentially exactly back where it started (while admittedly a mostly fun ride to get there), I’m not sure I want to start a spinoff series where presumably even less of consequence will happen. 

I specifically left the heater in my race car so I can turn it on if the car starts getting warm on track. This is a valid strategy.

I vaguely recall being a kid in the 90s and my dad had to run the heat in his pickup truck on really hot days because otherwise the engine would overheat!

Very well said, I was thinking exactly the same. EV’s and efficient vehicles aren’t getting “screwed” by this and gas guzzlers aren’t necessarily getting some unfair benefit from it. More like it’s taking away the current free pass heavy EV’s are getting, and eliminates the subsidy that gassers are currently paying to…