All new EVs are required to make an artificial sound at low speed. Tesla held out as long as possible for aesthetic reasons. I’m in favor of requiring a little noise, because it was way too hard to have people notice I was there in my silent C-Max Energi.

If you want to reduce weight on roads, get cargo out of trucks and on trains. The slight weight difference between EVs and ICE cars is nothing compared to heavy trucks.

This is like the Fisker Karma I saw listed the other day with 111,000 miles. However, some lunatic wanted $30,000 for the thing.

MSRP on some new ones is <$20,000!

I am guessing they’d prefer to be extradited to the United States.

Damn, I’d hope because lithium is such a light metal and NORM radionuclides such heavy ones, the lithium could be taken out somehow without really concentrating the rest. Obviously the chemists know a lot better than me.

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Beneficial use is a really fun problem! Is the lithium you produce still contaminated with radionuclides, or just the residuals?

And NYC is also close to a lot of offshore wind capability.

Offshore wind blows strongest at night.

Blows my mind that people want to slow transitioning from moving crude oil around the globe because it might require some additional mines.

She should grab a Pacifica PHEV.

ConArtistsCars.biz absolutely would take that deal.

Yeah - you absolutely shouldn’t mess with these things unless you know what you’re doing. This doesn’t call into question using them for transportation, it calls into question idiots doing middle school science experiments on them.

My local Ford dealer has had one Mach-E in inventory for six months; right now they’re advertising a $7500 markup on it. I’ve got to think it would be gone tomorrow if they sold it for MSRP.

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For about a month there was a new Ioniq Electric parking in my neighborhood, where the local Hyundai stores won’t touch them.

Yeah what?

It missed his garage by thirty feet or so, anyways.

Yep. The best selling EVs in the US so far in 2021 (through October):