Ferrari has a long wait list for these one of one cars. I don’t think the owner was considering the pandemic when they ordered the car a couple years ago. And sure, it costs the same as a bunch of PPE. Of course the issue with PPE right now is supply constrained, not specifically the ability to pay for it.

Eye of the beholder and all, and I might be just a bit biased, but there’s no way that thing is better looking than this:

As a California resident who works in the engineering infrastructure industry I can honestly say this is all just a pipe dream. The state’s infrastructure is literally falling apart. Roads, bridges, water and wastewater systems, and our electrical grid. As it is now he state can’t generate enough electricity on a hot…

Whole different point.

The difference climate change makes to the wildfires is literally immeasurable today. CA has a wildfire fuel and infrastructure problem. Then any little disturbance in the weather (weather is not climate) causes conflagration. Guess what, CA could start fixing their fuel and infrastructure problems tomorrow without…

California also needs to implement an actual fire mitigation policy that will stop the fires from being catastrophic events. Just ruining their power grid isn’t sufficient.

Doing what they’re doing is a far more complicated policy decision than you’re identifying - with plenty of complications and problems that make 2035 an aggressive deadline. Just a few of them:

I saw that Hyundai ad on Hulu and my first thought was, “why can’t they just pay attention to the road?”. I’d be laughing at it, if it wasn’t so sad.

Only the rich get to live indoors and have access to toilets other than the street in San Francisco. Why shouldn’t the rest of the state show as much progress?

By 2035 your going to have to be crazy to want anything other than an electric car. 

 They know who their target market is: Men with small penises.

Correlation is not causation. The lack of specificity on the batteries was the reason for the stock value drop, not the promise of a relatively cheap Tesla model.

What’s hilarious about this California knee-jerk is that we just ran the experiment in April— and took 95% of the cars off the roads. We shut that bitch down.

California: about to become the “Cuba” of America with older cars kept in pristine running order....

California doesn’t have the Electricity infrastructure to support a mass movement to electric vehicles, as their utilities currently can’t support consistent electricity (here in San Diego at least) during the hottest days with peak A/C demand, when rolling blackouts are the norm. Better hope a few next-generation…

I can’t see this really sticking. It’s an EO, not legislated, making it almost trivial to have rescinded as soon as someone new is in the governor’s office.

This is so fucked. The CA power grid cant handle summers and falls as is. No way they can get power production ready for this. That’s only 15 years away and as a reminder CA wont build any coal, natural gas, nuclear, or hydro plants to serve the demand, only solar and wind. For this plan to work they would also need…

It’s also larger than the Bolt and also isn’t styled like a $20k econo-hatchback, which should give it a big advantage over the Bolt aesthetically.

Seriously

Their other option is do nothing and have the bank seize their property. The moratorium doesn’t stop that from happening.