50 mile electric range PHEVs are only required in California, and some states that follow its lead. I also heard something about 70 instead of 50.

The first half of your question is very possible. Rivian R1 class vehicles have a pneumatic suspension that raises or lowers their height on demand. If the R2 and R3 do as well I’ll be really interested in them.

The weird thing is, more EVs (and more efficient hybrids) mean gas gets cheaper, until gas is used so little that gas stations shut down and it becomes hard to find. It might bottom out back near $1/gallon. Unless gasoline taxes go way up, which seems politically unlikely.

If they’d make a plug-in hybrid Maverick, in the low 30-something-thousand range, I’d go out and buy one ASAP. Otherwise it annoys me that you can DIY everything but the fuel.

8kW*100 cars = 800kW, about the same as a decent small 2 to 4 plug DCFC station. Charger power can be adjusted as low as 1.5kW, but 8 will charge most cars overnight.

Apparently the latest Prius can be kind of fun with the right tires.

Don’t forget the energy used to pump, distribute, and refine the oil. Like this:

Suggestions four and five can be summarized in one maxim.

Speedrunners.  Some people like to get through a game in a record-setting time.

Seems like a giant, ancient version of the already very large (~10 ton) Steller’s sea cow.

During the “break”, Netflix is seeking an AI product manager, presumably so they can give shows without writers or actors the old college try.

So fix the fossil fuels in fertilizer. We need to someday anyway. Ammonia can be made with nitrogen from the air and green hydrogen. Eventually I expect Brazil will be an ethanol exporter.

If that’s John Rhys-Davies he’s lost a lot of weight. Here he is from 2012, from Wikipedia:

Stargirl?  Was that the CW’s Stargirl, or something else?

Correlation != causation! Maybe only people who already have a high pain tolerance exercise.

The solution might be to build more electricity transmission, so more farmers can “farm” solar panels. Also so that canals, and shade crops, can be covered with solar panels limiting evaporation.

Not every inch of my room. Every inch of my floor, maybe. Seeing that big exhaust on top, I though that maybe it had enough suction to climb walls and vacuum my ceiling too.

You can do something. It’s called a constitutional amendment. Constitutional amendments require a large majority, so most don’t go anywhere, but one requiring cops to protect people might.

A Maverick plug-in hybrid should be easy. Just fill in all those cubby spaces with batteries and add a charging system. It might not be a “good” plug-in hybrid, but it would be about as good as the PHEV Escape it’s related to.

I once had the idea to make an actual version of this, connecting to the OBDII port. The main problem is that the amps on the port are so limited that a battery could only provide a fraction of a percent of the power necessary for decent acceleration. (That’s partly why real mild hybrid systems use 48V batteries.) And…