I bid a military contract back in 2019. It was to remodel a school on an “area 51" base so they could build a new hi tech laboratory: Scientists needed somewhere to science in the meantime.

Yeah, this is one controversy that I don’t think makes a whole lot of sense. The contract was already there when Biden had full control. So while it’s still valid to ask why the state department is looking to spend $400M on armored Teslas, trying to blame it on Elon influence doesn’t make a lot of sense. The Biden…

Or we could have taxed the gas companies properly.  Or we could have refused new oil leases and started a state owned oil company with all proceeds in a sovereign wealth fund.  We are the worlds largest oil producer, and have never, in the past 90 years (maybe more) not been in the top 3 worldwide.  Yet we take all of…

Have a star.

My brother and I went to visit family 800+ mi away last summer in his EV. For whatever reason he was convinced that the best way to do it was to charge only up to the point where we’d make our next charge with 5-6% left. All good until I woke him up (2-ish AM) in a bit of a panic as 30 min after leaving our last…

The comment thread here will be interesting!

Do you actually think the McDonalds franchisee is going to pony up $50-60k per charging station? (That’s what my workplace paid to install 2 charging stations.)  And that’s assuming they have 3-phase power available in their store.  That’s a lot of Big Macs return on investment!

I’ve had the deep displeasure of Peter Rawlinson’s company. Believe it or not, he’s actually worse IRL than he comes across in interviews.

Seriously, that statement is doing so much heavy lifting it’s laughable. First, it lacks a specific goal post, which you note. Second, the amount of utility engineering and cost to run charging networks to even a fraction of the apartment/townhouse residents in this county is astronomical. Even people with driveways…

The issue is that YOU DON’T NEED A RENTAL CAR AT ALL when you have a gas car.

Sometimes I dream about blowing myself, but never in public like that clown just did.

for the one to 3 trips I take a year where I drive... thats more than a grand worth on rental cars.... which I STILL have to fill up with gas.

If I have to rent a car to make long distance drives, like road trips to visit family that live in other states, or going camping in remote areas of southern Utah, I’m not going to buy a low range EV and will keep my ICE car instead.

I think one of the bigger struggles at the moment is truly pinning down EV range as the advertised values come with so many asterisks that you could make a constellation. Driving style makes up a lot of that for any vehicle, but ICE vehicles tend to only waver a couple of mpg between seasons and stay pretty consistent…

“The way Rawlinson sees it, once we build out our nation’s charging infrastructure, you’ll be able to charge pretty much anywhere you park”

This is true. Picture every parking lot where you run errands or park for work: 20 or so fast chargers for the people that live in apartments or otherwise don’t have access to charging — they can use those and top off anytime — and stores, I would think, would love to have free or low-cost chargers so that they can…

““But I’m actually synonymous with big-picture thinking.””

Talking about the future here, solid-state and other new battery technologies will erase a lot of range anxiety among the buying public. You may stop more often on long trips, but if charging time is equal to or less than the time it takes to gas up, as the new technologies promise, why worry about super long range?…

Sorry but he is totally wrong, why, because people wouldn’t accept a ICE vehicle with a 180 mile range, and you can gas up on damn near every corner in a matter of minutes. Is range anxiety overblown, yes the average driver unless they super commute, doesn’t use that average 300 mile range in their ICE vehicle daily.…

Not an outlandish take, but I think you’re missing plenty of reasonable desires to want added cushion in range that extend beyond “lazy”. I don’t know why anyone focuses on absolutes with these stories. A more likely proposal would be a large amount of people just need appliances for cars and travel less than 250…