Given the variable gaps etc. I’m wondering how well it’ll hold up to years of use. Will it end up squeaking on every little bump in the road?

I realized back when they brought out the prototype that they were going for re-thinking vehicle construction at a basic level. But I assumed someone had worked out, at least in…

Most EVs will not need a battery pack replacement during their years on the road. The talking point that battery packs last five years or less is false.

Uh, wrong. I pay an “alternative fuels tax” to license my EV that is more than equal to the amount of gas tax I would have paid at the pump. Plus, I also pay taxes on the electricity that I buy.

The right of free speech does not entail the necessity that the right be exercised in any and all venues. It simply says that the government may not forbid said speech (which is not what happened to Sommers). Even if it were true that the academic venues tried to shut Sommers down for intellectually questionable…

Actually, Waymo is rolling out a self-driving taxi service in Phoenix with no one in the driver’s seats. This year. So no, it’s not 2 years off.

BTW, Waymo is well ahead of Tesla on vehicle autonomy.

There’s lots of questionable stats being pumped out there, often funded by fossil fuel interests. They generally sound like themousethatroared’s post.

Instead, I recommend this study done by the Union of Concerned Scientists. It’s a full life cycle study, covering production-to-disposal costs of both BEVs and ICE…

Why should your employer pay for your parking? Or your health insurance? Or heating and cooling in your building? (You could just bring a coat, right?)

They do it because that stuff makes you a better, more reliable employee, and attracts better employees when they want to hire.

BTW, WRT why they’d have a charge point…

I found myself wondering, “Could this be saved if the writing was not so gawdawful?” If they forbade MacFarlane from ever doing another script, and brought in actual writers, there might be a chance of turning it into something non-cringey. Maybe even take a page from the Blake’s 7 final series: dump the lead…

At the moment, there are less than 40 hydrogen fueling stations in the entire USofA. Most of those are in California, and from reports there’s substantial downtime for most of them.

You have zero options for fueling a fuel cell vehicle in the large majority of the U.S.

The operative word here is “can.” At present, nearly all hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels like natural gas in processes that emit greenhouse gasses in similar quantities to gasoline production. Now, theoretically you could use electrolysis instead. However, it’s an energy-inefficient process that uses over twice…