Is this fun enough?

I’m pretty sure there are town centres and cities by the tens of thousands in the USA where you can live in an urban setting. And sure there is zoning, but I’d be surprised to see it being impossible to find plenty of opportunities to build apartment buildings.

No, why?

Those highways are de facto part of Siena. The small portion of Siena pictured there, the old town center, is not an independent and autonomous thing. Even Siena train station is “miles and miles away”, you think that is inconsequential to the old city center?

This is a tricky issue, tricky in that nobody really looks good on either side, which is just some of the damage you get when gigantic foreign companies extracting resources out of poorer ones.

Tesla Model S with its massive batteries and aluminium use causes far more CO2 emissions than your average modern new ICE car.

Which makes sense. Oh lord, there are enough brain-dead idiots who have zero interest in concentrating on driving out there, if those idiots using trains would suddenly be among us driving cars then I’d probably kill myself.

No big impact. Also, Teslas are already made in a way that no proper manufacturer would ever even dream of. They would never-ever spend so little time and money on designing and developing them, they would never even dream of testing their smallest micro-sized city-appliance-car so little, they would never ever just…

That is completely irrelevant. New EVs are compared with new ICE cars, not Model T.

And note: most of that high expense of gasoline is taxes, so it goes into providing services and infrastructure! The cheaper car prices contain massive profits to the car manufacturers which go back into R&D, expansion, salaries and bonuses, and dividends which means money in the economy! With EVs the high cost is a…

You forgot the cobalt mine in the background polluting, with its child slave labour. And the aluminium production facility puffing out massive amounts of CO2...no wait, that’s mostly for the Model S and not the Model 3. It’s hard to tell the difference of those Teslas that have that same 2007 Mazda 6 design.

EVs are at their worst on highways, even outside Germany at speeds around 130-140km/h which people often use. Then add winter to that, halving your range, and you’ll be charging all the time. Meanwhile any ICE car will be hundreds of miles ahead of you.

In my view 20 miles is fine, and optimum would be something like 30-35 miles of range. Using an ICE engine for something like 5 miles every once in a while is meaningless. Especially in the winter when it actually makes sense to start off using the ICE for 2 or so miles to warm everything up efficiently.

Yeah, if I don’t start my ICE engine when setting off in the winter and instead let the battery heat up the cabin and try to power the vehicle while cold (which includes lots of electricity wasted in heating up the battery), then I’ll get something like 1000% increased electric consumption and a range of 2 miles.

No, they just need the next gen of platforms which can combine the packaging of PHEV and ICE. Let’s not pretend that all those I4-engined PHEVs couldn’t do without those slight bumps on the trunk floor when the same car is offered with a V8...

If you need to heat up the car, then ICE is the way to go.

In most cities everyone responsible for planning and implementation of traffic matters seem to be leftist cyclist activists. Maybe they’ve made the cities such miserable places to live that they’re trying to commit suicide?

They generate a lot more revenue if you make speed limits ridiculously low.

Also guess what happens when you have bicyclist, e-scooter and e-skateboard numbers increase, weaving around with zero regard to traffic regulations. They are probably also preparing for the upcoming e-scooter rentals like Lime now that New York has just legalised those.

Chud