“You can’t fill up if you’re stuck on the highway in a storm.” Agreed, but you said it was more likely for ICE cars to be partially filled when leaving home. that’s more a function of ubiquitous gas stations so I know I can fill up literally anywhere before getting stuck the highway.

As the saying goes:

I think it’s much more likely that you’d find a person who left the house with less than a quarter tank of gas than a person with less than 25% charge on an EV.

“The Texas electric grid is more prepared for winter operations than ever before,”

Does it help some? sure, but it’s not part of the plan because it won’t be there 8+ months of the year.

yep, sigh, a baffle them with bs artist.

That 1-2 seconds going from brake to gas, per car, per lane, per rubberband slow/stop cycle is pure wasted time gridlock.

My experience in HOV lanes. I have a hybrid that was allowed to use VA/DC area HOV lanes as a solo driver. I had a 20 mile stretch of I-66 straight shot of single lane HOV so there wasn’t much of any cutting in front going on.

NDA’s? you mean there aren’t public sources that back up your claims?

Your links are for mining environmental issues, not CO2 release...

some data:

My concern is less about specific skills and more about the exponential increase in complexity of multiple automated systems attempting to predict each other.

In terms of vehicle electrification? yes, yes it is. Big vehicles are hard, and relatively rare.

Again, most edge case uses will come in time. Some truly edge cases may not. But they will be minimal in the grand scheme of things if we are to avert the utter disaster that’s looming.

I am ok with those things. It will be far far cheaper than continuing to burn fossil fuels.

We should have started this decades ago sure. But we didn’t.

they take too long to charge and run out of juice too fast

yep. recycling needs to be limited to Aluminum, steel/other metals, and paper and in that order.

You and I are most definitely ‘we’. There’s only one planet currently available.

Unions exist because of corporate malfeasance against workers.