Wait, there are cars that have tech to order food? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? It sounds like car makers are desperate to turn their cars into “income stream generators” rather than just selling products. This s pretty stupid.

Yup. If instead of focusing on EVs we instead worked to make cars smaller and lighter, and got rid of fuel economy exemptions for trucks and SUVs, that would decrease CO2 emissions much more. If we got just a few people in developed countries to have fewer children, that would decrease CO2 emissions even more (having…

I’m not bitter, I just find your fascination with your own self-interest over ICE vehicles to be rather counter-productive and silly.

You keep referring to EV’s as a trend. They’re here to stay. That’s why you have a boomer mentality. You’re not accepting that times are changing and need to change.

Well make sure you keep complaining about people who are trying to effect positive societal-level change because it might impinge on your self-interest while wishing that these people didn’t exist, boomer

Without the demonstration that there’s money to be made, there’s no way the big automakers come anywhere near the investment in EV’s that we’re seeing right now. That and EV mandates... but I hope that’s more because of the climate crisis we find ourselves in.

Unfortunately, you’re wrong. We need EV’s, and the rest of that shit you don’t like goes with them.

Hate on Tesla (or Elon Musk) al you want, but they have actually caused a revolution in the way we power cars that was NEVER going to happen if left to traditional auto manufacturers.

By all means, let’s continue to do nothing then, let’s bitch and whine about how EVs won’t change 100% of our problems instead of recognizing that they’re a step in a direction most people recognize as meaningful

Exactly. Globally, less than 9% of carbon emissions come from cars:

Bad take. Without Tesla we would still be waiting for the “big 3" to release an electric car.

Electrify America is getting dangerously close to having enough L3 charging stations that you actually can make city to city trips.

I’d imagine an inclined or sloped driveway (common in, for example, San Francisco). If you put a car on dollies and roll it onto an inclined driveway, the car will just roll downhill (possibly sideways) without any way to keep it from rolling.

rare earths are not rare. they are absurdly common and easy to mine.

I mean EV’s are inevitable, I think the EU wants to ban new sales of ICE cars in the next few years.

That’s exactly right. CO2 emissions from cars account for less than 9% of all CO2 emissions globally (and 11% in the US). There are MUCH bigger sources of emissions to go after, but EVs are being sold as THE solution to climate change, which makes it much less likely that the public will think about the other sources…

The problem is that cars are not only used for daily commutes, but for longer trips as well. So wanting a longer range is not unreasonable. Or at best a faster re-fueling time. Which is why the whole EV thing is a dead end. We should instead be figuring out how to make renewable liquid, high-energy-density fuels to…

Battery capacity mostly impacts range, not peak power. It’s not like with ICEs where an engine with higher peak power will have lower MPG. In an EV, you could have a smaller battery with high power. So the reason to have a big battery is primarily to have a longer range.

you’re probably just going to fly if it’s over a four hour drive anyway

Go check out the prices of electric mountain bikes and weep. Those BICYCLES sell for $10K+. I doubt we’ll see electric motorcycles for $5K. Normal motorcycles are much less resource-intensive to produce and cost less as a result.