As long as you don’t have to pay for the effects of lead on people.

And I’ve now kicked off a project to try and get it started in the USA.

There is nothing technical preventing V2G with Leafs, in the US, today. Just getting some electric utility to bother. Weirdly, the economic incentives are there already (grid stabilisation service fees, generating price arbitrage, ability to run wind turbines with +ve pricing per MWh in periods of low grid demand,…

Plus the i3 is made out of carbon fibre, and not steel.

Chademo is a bi-directional standard, and CCS is only grid-to-vehicle.

This is very important in Japan for earthquake an tsunami resilience, so the Japanese government ensured it was a key part of Chademo from the off.

It’s also why collections of ordinary residential Leafs get used as Virtual Power Plants in the UK.

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The Nissan Altima disappoints, compared to a Bentley Continental.

The International standard for road signage is the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals of 1968. At stop junctions the standard for the sign is to say “Stop”, with local language also permitted. I’m assuming the same is true for on-road painted markings.

It’s a German plate.

To emphasise the rear droop.

“I’m gonna make a guess and say they’re wrong about that. Tesla makes a lot of claims... but they ALSO strongly claim that the driver still needs to pay attention and have their hands on the steering wheel when autopilot is engaged.

Or just the Maxi. It’s not like stretching the Mini architecture up to Maxi size hasn’t been done before.

Sugar Bunker obviously is where the comfort aliens are housed.

You know that you’re supposed to signal that you want the bus to stop?  (Many stops serve several routes)

You can plug your Leaf into your house, and sell its charge back to the grid now, in the UK.

People already do that with Leafs in the UK.

+ Jaguar XF Sportbrake

The stand on the right side and walk on the left escalator rule is a great one.

Before I answer your specific points: natural climate change tends to occur at the rate of 1degC in 5,000 to 20,000 years. We’re currently running at 1degC per 100 years.

If natural climate happens at the speed of a bicycle, we’re currently changing the climate at the speed of a fighter jet with its afterburners on.   


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“I love how all the people so worried about global warming still fly everywhere instead of drive.”  For a very weird definition of “all”.

Making cars more fuel efficient only makes them more expensive *if* you ignore the externalities. Like getting a copper mine to clean up its leaks of toxic chemicals out into its surroundings only makes the copper mine more expensive to run *if* you ignore the costs of leaching out the toxic chemicals to its…