It wasted some two decades of technological development, and denied at least 20 more years till present day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_batteries?wprov=sfla1

Nikki Gordon Bloomfield would know.

It was a compliance car for Toyota, and for something for ~2011 Tesla to grow off of.

It's the patent embargo on the batteries you should be more worried/angry about. 

Second hand gas guzzler

Ask Nikki Gordon Bloomfield how that worked out for her.

You're just embodying the "Learn To Code" meme

Given Mazda’s half arsed attitude to electrification over the last decade and through its MX-30, I'm only feeling grim to the actualisation of this long teased REx/PHEV.

You'll have Aptera for that..

Or a choice for a beefed up hybrid/plugin...

Don't forget your rest breaks if you're flying along at 80mph in icy weather

Pictures please or it didn’t happen...

[ insert gas/electric range joke here ]

Part of the problem is an arms race for bigger, faster, further, stronger eSUVs ‘cause the first weeks of electric driving arr scarewy

TL;DR: We'll miss you

https://youtu.be/MRBCFa9Vl6Q

Yes, Nazis are clowns. And oh boy, are things gonna get ugly this decade. 

Maybe you’re not just a liberal - as the US culture colours it

it’s Neoliberalism. You can thank Thatcher, Reagan, the Chicago Institute, Pinochet; that’s what we’re under, be it Blair or Obama. There’s really no point defending them with the other puppets, they worked to maintain this impoverishing, atomising, climate change causing system.