Neutral: put a sales tax on vehicles, based on their weight to usable interior space ratio.

Further to your “conspiracy theory” point:
“The IPCC does not do new science, but it does synthesize and interpret the existing body of scientific literature using a consensus-based approach. By its very nature, this means that the scientific report is likely to adopt a fairly conservative approach to characterizing…

No - I’m using the standard view of rise per degC of warming, along with the latest findings on the current speed of sea-level rise inputs, and the latest reports on the actual growth path of GHG emissions.

But watching the trend in snapshots shows the direction of travel. Being aware that the last IPCC Synthesis…

In my children’s lifetimes.
When you look at the “direst predictions”, you have to look at three things: the current official direst prediction, the trend on the official direct prediction over the past decades, and the restrictions placed on the official reporting of direst prediction.
The IPCC official prediction was,…

The issue is not so much the damage done to date, as the damage we have already now locked in to happen in the future. If we stopped all further CO2 emissions now, right now, the temperatures will still keep going up for the next 120 years or so (although the majority of the rise would happen in the the first 30 to 40…

Getting to net zero emissions is just the start.

Once we are there, the global temperatures will continue to rise - it takes about 40 years for 63% of the heating to happen (and another 40 years for the next 24% or so, etc).
Once we eventually get to net zero, there’s still a bunch of trouble stored up for the years…

The great thing about electric cars is, over time, the grid greens, and your car gets greener and greener as time goes by.
A gas or diesel vehicle generally loses power and efficiency over the years, and so gets less and less green over time.

Yes - the solution is to strip away the illusion of cheapness.  IMO, that means carbon taxes.

Which is fine, as long as the negative externalities of the high transport fuel use are factored in to the price of the gas.

Yes, it’s cheap to drive your pickup at 85-90mph for 500-600 miles of weekly commute. *If* the consequential costs of the East Coast flood protection and the cost of Louisiana and Florida coastal…

And generally, they just mean ‘arithmetic’, rather than ‘maths’

Someone needs to tell Mercedes that “aero-engineering” for cars does not mean what they think it means.

It’s a Model 3 ute.
The M-ute

Or it’s an (elec)tric ute.
Trick-ute.

What changes do you make to the chassis to get it to handle 1000hp and pass type approval?

In the Netherlands, the larger mass is presumed to be more dangerous, and is required to take the greater care.  There is a legal presumption that the larger mass is at fault.

When the 2nd car is pulling 34kW, the first car is pulling 102kW

Here’s the ElectrifyAmerica network, as it’s grown since the beginning of May 2018.
That, on its own, is 274 stations (compared with Tesla’s 654 stations)
EA is still only the third or fourth-largest CCS network in the USA.

“even the split charge rate is higher than the 50kW”
The split charge rate drops to 34kW.
“the Tesla average is closer ~10 posts these days in the US”
The latest figures I saw were still 3.9 chargers per Supercharger station, providing 7.8 charge-connections.
“I don’t know that S/X can be excluded from the contention…

“ Tesla built the Model S and made a profit on it. Then they built the Model X and made a profit on it.”

“ Tesla makes a profit on selling cars “

See, if you hadn’t invented the productivity-fluid workpod, they wouldn’t have stuck you in one, Torch.  But I look forward to reading about your next invention.  And your user-report once it’s forced on you. :-)