You can regualate the hell out of anything, but at the end of the day people are dumb and will find loopholes  

Nazis are well known for their love of small government

Shhhhh! Am I the only one who is enjoying some freshly popped popcorn as people light their hair on fire over the newest ‘threat’?

Remember that cars were the answer to the serious health crisis of horse shit in cities. Next we’ll be wringing our pearls and gnashing our teeth over something that electric cars cause.

Union officials are white-collar jobs, man.

The point stands though. Not everyone will want a PHEV, and BMW still sells shit like the X3 that is wildly popular. So, its non-hybrid variants will still need to be improved. 

Because ICE is still a much larger piece of the pie. If Ford increased the efficiency of its F150 by 1mpg, that would have a bigger effect than making every single one of its Ecosports plug-in. 

Neutral: The EV credit is about the only thing enticing me to consider EVs, but the lack of EVs on dealer lots in most of the country makes it a non-starter.

But the people buying the car is thinking about the road trip next month. It doesn’t matter if 99% of their driving is in the city, that 1% of the time they need it is why they buy an f150 or another suv. 

Doubt it. Unless things get drastically worse (as in soviet collapse or post war Germany bad which I don’t believe it will), most people only ever trend upward in their buying habits.

Not in my neck of the woods. 

Of course they do. If people bought just what they needed, most everyone would be driving around in something resembling the leaf or another tiny economical car. Or if we take this idea to the extreme, no car and subsistence farming covered a lot of people's "needs" for a very long time. Instead we’re buying 400 hp…

“ have yet to meet a car buyer in all my years that buys a vehicle based off of “It matters a lot how the vehicle can handle the worst possible case scenario””

Viable is not sellable when ice is still better as I've pointed out many times today. It doesn't matter that it can drive far enough for daily use. It matters that it sucks for road trips. 

The fundemental truth of batteries is that they have always taken a long time to charge. The physics behind it hasn’t changed. You shove more energy in faster, you create more heat to deal with and put more wear on the battery. Combine this with the fact that battery tech has really been rather stagnant in the last 10…

A Tesla will take approximately 10+ hours to charge on 110v. Beyond this it also would require actually parking close enough to an outlet to charge and not going anywhere or very far during the entire stay.this is adding a fair amount of inconvenience compared to gas engine. 

Never said they weren’t fine for commuting. They just suck for towing, hauling, road trips, and a lot of other uses. Most people won’t be switching until their a lot more competitive.

The vast majority of people I know are thinking about road trips or towing and hauling when buying vehicles. Due to the large number of suvs and trucks being sold these days, it's a safe bet to say this is true around a lot of the states. They don't thing about the 100+ trips they towed nothing. It's the 5 trips they…

And once again. This is irrelevant for people's purchase decisions. They don't think about how far they have to commute. They think about how far they have to drive on a trip to their parents house. It doesn't matter how often they do that. 

Just because it, theoretically, fulfils the needs does not mean it fulfils the consumer wants. When you are selling a product, you need to fulfil the latter. And the assertion that it does fulfil the need, is pure first adopter enthusiasm. First adopter enthusiasm for a product will move no units in the general…