This sounds like a better idea than it is.

North America isn’t a “charging hell” and this isn’t going to fix it.

Exactly. And that’s what people are buying and riding around for cheap. And that’s why we need to regulate it.

Let’s go back to the beginning and recall that you started this saying that the MME was similar to an Edge. Yes, I think that the Mazda 3 is a reasonable comparison to most small CUVs. Which have a variety of wheelbases.

I came back to this today because my co-worker is assembling a class 1 ebike he bought on Prime day today. It came fully unassembled, but the only printed instruction in the package is how to disable the limiter. In 6 languages.

The reality is that 10 seconds of googling and maybe a couple dollars will get you around any limitations that many bikes have. Turning a class-1 bike into something else, or turning more capable bikes into rocket ships.

I would completely support mopeds and e-bikes both being sufficiently regulated.

You’re willfully ignoring the reality of e-bikes. If you don’t see the people going 30+ without ever pedalling all over the place every single day you must live somewhere very different than I do.

You still haven’t won me over.

My Honda has a top speed of 30 maybe. 40 would require a long downhill and an extremely light rider. It had 4hp 40 years ago. 10HP e-bikes are common, and they have acceleration and torque far beyond what a similarly powered gas bike would have. People also commonly modify their bikes (change a “hidden” setting) to…

Riding e-bikes in traffic without a license, registration, and insurance seems kinda dickish to me.

I resent the fuck out of the fact that all the public trails around here have posted no motorized vehicles so I can’t ride my Trail 70 there anymore, but people can blast past you on their e-motorcycles that are more powerful than my little Honda. Doubly so because the e-bikers would be the first people to call the…

It’s irrelevant what e-bikes environmental impact is in the context of traffic rules. They Are Motorcycles. Period. We already have a way to deal with motorcycles and it’s completely reasonable and doesn’t interfere with anybody’s carbon agenda in any way.

That is purely market positioning.

EV owner here (F-150 Lightning). I love it.

I think that the Mach-E is $5k better looking than the Model Y, which is probably the ugliest mainstream car of the last decade. And it has a way better interior. But neither of them are worth more than $40k. $35k for the 300 mile version is pushing it.

The problem is that you don’t understand that criticism of a thing that you like isn’t a personal attack on you. You can be a Diablo fanboy and it can be a good game and still admit that it isn’t perfect and that the launch wasn’t perfect. It’s OK.

Specifically that we only get a few short weeks to spend with characters before starting over, rather than getting a whole season with them.

The problem isn’t that you have to start a new character for every season. The problem is that Season 1 didn’t start on release day.

There are plenty of ways Reddit could have guaranteed themselves a slice of the pie. And they didn’t need to put 3rd party app makers in the revenue stream either. The calls are all done in the context of the user. Make the user pay directly.....