Hasn’t stopped the USA from doing just that in the past. In fact, for us little people, it’s enshrined as “Civil Asset Forfeiture.” The compensation for Japanese internment victims was laughably small. So - send them $1. Done. Legal. 

Like they ask of poor people, they should have had some money put away in case of bad times.

Well a Hummer anything is stupid. 

I kind of prefer Matt Farrah’s take on EV’s so far. He has a Mach E and loves it, and he has driven a TON of EV press cars. Basically the problem wit the EV charging setup, outside of Tesla, is that it is VERY inconsistent.  There are a lot of EV charging spots, but whether or not they are working is hit and miss at…

What I keep picking up from these comments is a bizarre sort of gatekeeping. Basically, if you don’t plan your route using a laundry list of apps, databases, message boards, and subreddits, you deserve to die in a ditch. Hyperbole. But not much. Meanwhile, people like my mother in law, who’d be a perfect candidate for…

an EV maker called Nio is starting a line of cars with swoppable battery packs.  Drive into an automated battery change station and drive out in 6 minutes with a fully charged pack.  Yes, there needs to be a huge build out of stations, but it’s a better idea than slow chargers that are frequently broken, in use, or…

You have done that yourself dot jpg

I love the backlash that’s “well if you would have downloaded this app, and had an EV that cost considerably more, and taken this specific route, then it’s totally exactly the same as an ICE car”. Swear some of you are going to dislocate a shoulder reaching this hard.

But with COVID surge after COVID surge happening, often the only practical one.

My wife and I love road trips and are huge planners, so we do spend quite a bit of time considering our routes. That said, we don’t even spend 5 minutes thinking about what route to take from the perspective of how to refuel. It’s 0 minutes.

I had a Tesla, and now have a non-Tesla EV, and road trips were certainly easier in the Tesla as far as charging is concerned. But I’ve already taken twice as many road trips in the non-Tesla as I did in the Tesla. Other than charging, the non-Tesla is much more comfortable for road-tripping.

I have plenty of issues with Tesla, both with the company and with the vehicles they sell, but even I will give basically unreserved kudos to them for how they have handled the Supercharger network.

“It’s still possible in other EVs, but you have to do a little planning beforehand.”

This actually wasn’t an Opinion piece.
But i agree, Opinion should largely be treated like speculative fiction in any paper.

So, right off the bat that’s a lot longer than just driving straight through Memphis, which is a much tougher trip in terms of charging. Routing through Nashville adds about 2 1/2 hours of driving. But it’s what the WSJ person chose, so we’ll go with that. I think you’re leaving off a couple of stops - like Gulfport.…

Well no shit. Who knew that meticulously planning a road trip around charging stations, instead of the quickest way possible or sightseeing, is annoying and inconvenient? Early EV owners who adopted this level of planning is fine. There are always people like this no matter if they drive ICEVs or EVs. But for the…

Distance isn’t the problem. The interstate highway system and the increased dependence on personal vehicles, subsidies for planes, deregulation of railways, the various monopolistic practices of railways over the past century (each having their own microcosm of failures and reverberating consequences), all of these…

Air travel is pretty popular in Europe. Trains are more a replacement for road trips. 

The lede picture is a good example. Two different chargers, two companies, two apps, two different connections (or some sort of “adapter”).

Spent the weekend discussing/debating this article with friends.