I dig it. Maybe I can afford one in about 15 years.

I generally regard Jim Farely as one of the less-dumb CEO’s but holy shit:

Of all the scams ever pulled on the American people, linking cars to freedom has to be the biggest. Cars aren’t freedom. They’re expensive and the damage that having “Just Drive” as the default answer to every problem has caused so many more self perpetuating problems.

Leave earlier. 

Money talks and celebs walk.

Clearly it wouldn’t have to be every car. You just make old-enough cars exempt. No different than seat belt laws. We mandated cars have seat belts, and then much later we mandated (in many states) that you have to wear your seatbelt while driving.

I think they’re trying to stop people killing each other.

I have a house in Nevada. Nice try. 

Yeah, but they also have functional public transit which does a lot of legwork re drunk driving.

Hell here in Austin, we have an 85 mph stretch of highways and everyone is doing 95-100 safely on those!

Be as stupid as you like on your own property, when you aren’t putting the lives of others at risk. You have every right to pursue your own happiness, until it puts the life or liberty of others at risk.

I used to live in Nevada where 85 MPH speed limits exist. The extra danger and fuel consumption isn’t worth it. I’ve been noticing semi trucks are increasingly getting much faster as well, which is a huge issue. 

IMO, this bill doesn’t go far enough. All new cars should have a hard 80 MPH limiter on the street, and the national highway speed limit should never exceed 70 MPH.

The motors are much less expansive than the battery, so using oversized motors is a cheap way to jazz up the sales pitch. Being oversized, the motors can also regen at a higher deceleration/braking rate, which increases range.

It was the only excuse EV dorks had to fight back against gearhead chuds in the early days of EV development. The chuds always wanted to go into “my blah blah blah can 0-60 in half a parsec around a corelian moon because it has 385 LIVE horses under the hood!!!!!!” or some yammering caveman noises and grunts that…

That no longer exists.

That no longer never existed. A mere 67 years ago the National Guard was required for a few children to access their school. 

This one hundred percent. No one can be relied on to do the right thing. That no longer exists.

Yeah when you market huge and instant torque as a primary feature of the car, it shouldn’t be a surprise that people are burning up tires.