I’m super excited for the future of 5' tall light bars shining through my back window being standard instead of only dealing with the occasional bro-dozer. The giant glowing RAM will be awesome.

Yep. Stop growing the food on an industrial scale, watch those cities and suburbs disappear. 

Human population and agriculture is doing the damage. All else follows from there.

One of the most readily-available solutions to transportation emissions is simply to require fewer people to drive. Europe is showing us that people will happily walk, bike, or take transit if its good and cities aren’t absurdly sprawled-out. Urban CO2 emissions/capita are so much lower in cities in Europe and East…

It is absolutely true that self-driving cars will encourage people to drive more. for example, right now a lot of people would not drive into downtown areas because of lack of parking. But with self driving cars, you can have the car drop you off downtown, and then drive off somewhere else to park. Rightnow you…

Urban Sprawl and Car Dependency are killing the planet.

But 15% is 15% out of 100% from the transportation sector, you solve all that, you still have another 85% to deal with.. Individual car emissions in my mind should be looked at the city level per density. So Cities like Los Angeles and New York should be dealt with/incentivized first to get the residence in EVs and…

Can always count on Jalopnik to present a fair and unbiased view on any politically tinged subject. I can only assume these editorials are written with intended bias, to encourage more clicks from both sides. The persistent political bias is the primary reason I don’t visit Jalopnik very often anymore.

What do you think is going to happen to the price of food when you increase the average employer’s largest expense?

I am work at a truck OEM in the engine and aftertreatment development group. Not sure what you mean by the first change in 20 years for emissions? We have been through several major emissions changes including 2007, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2021, and are ramping towards 2024 with the split of EPA and CARB/Omnibus. There has…

Last emission restriction since 2001? Well, I am in the engine and aftertreatment department in an OEM, I guess every big change that has happened in 2007, 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2021 as well as the interyear adjustment were my imagination.

To be clear, I’m not saying environmental protection laws are bad — they’re just not aligned with the what’s needed to make all of those EV transition goals a reality, while at the same time adhering to the government goals of reduced dependence on China.

Something something break a few eggs.

Environmentalists need to stop getting in the way of mining operations. Like do they want EVs or not? If protests keep forcing the mines to shut down or reduce capacity production is never going to ramp up, or manufacturing will always be dependent on China and Russia.

nothing says “cash grab” like a re-edit of the 20-year-old brutal-rape movie nobody wants to see a second time

Well, I mean, most SUVs are gas guzzlers. It hasn’t been that many years since I remember overhearing conversations about “my new SUV gets 24 mpg, isn’t that great!”. While there are some SUVs, well, crossovers really, that get 35-40+, the average fuel economy for a light-duty vehicle in the US (SUVs, trucks, sedans,…

Exactly. Look at Kia. They sell a crap ton of 21 mpg Tellurides for every EV they sell. If there was an incentive on hybrids then maybe more people would pick a 35 mpg Highlander Hybrid instead. Or at least enough for Kia to consider making a Hybrid Telluride.

That is why pushing only EV’s as the solution isn’t the best idea. Moving to a stronger Hybrid and PHEV mix while also bringing EV’s online is better idea in my mind. I am not sure what the sales mix for EV/Hybrid-PHEV/ICE is. But if we can get to a point in relatively short order where pure ICE is almost or…

Interestingly, the special edition DVD of Memento includes a chronological cut.

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