Current and last gen Volvo V60 wagons are my favorite everyday cars.

The worst part of the US government stepping in to break the railstrike was that they blatantly showed that they simply won’t side with workers under virtually any circumstances. I can’t imagine working for the railroads under any circumstance in modern times. It’s nearly as bad as having no protections at all.

I could see something like that working with an odometer check during registration or inspection, but it would have to be both weight and mileage combined since mileage alone isn’t as destructive as weight. The only issue I would foresee with it is that could end up being a “surprise” tax to people. If you’re smashed…

I think you need to brush up on reading comprehension my guy. None of what I said has anything to do with the volume of the vehicle. The entire comment has to do with weight and efficiency, with some factors applying to certain situations and not to others.

Found one and it didn’t take long either.

I’ll be contrarian about the gas tax. It’s extremely regressive and won’t hurt the bracket that buys these modern monstrosities enough to change their behavior.

“Yo bro. Lemme scan your iris to incorporate you into all the other problems I’m creating. I’ll give you some of my monopoly money I also created in return.”

Well that’s one way to cut cattle based methane emissions.

So you’re telling me there’s no value in the Therac-25's I’ve been hoarding?

Oregon is very much considering that right at the moment with MyOReGO and CALTRANS is also piloting it with that idea in mind. They’re just the best known examples.

Kinda, I guess? How far behind or ahead we are depends on your viewpoint of a bunch of metrics.

Sure there is. You could mandate or retrofit a GPS registered to each car registered. From there you could form a structure, similar to that of the current object of everyone’s ire in the business world, the sales tax nexus, and require reporting. A quick odometer check would find out if anyone is using a jammer or…

Mileage is tricky because you’ll eventually end up in a South Dakota v. Wayfair situation where every taxing entity wants to know exactly how many miles you drove in their state, how many were on state roads vs local roads etc. That leads to all sorts of nasty downstream effects.

Industry analysts are doing the douchebro “Just asking questions” shtick with EV’s at the moment. They know damn well that the reasons you posted are why EV adoption is slow, but admitting it would mean that they would also have to admit they all thought/knew they could make way more money by just running…

#1: This is why I feel like registration fees should be based on the vehicle’s weight. Heavier vehicles do so much more damage to the roads and other infrastructure than ones that are “reasonably sized” (IE: At or around 4k lbs or 17 American washing machines or 91428 Kinder Eggs for those of you that speak metric.)

Sometimes I wish I was part of the fuck around generation instead of the find-out generation.

Yea! You shouldn’t license the best battery tech available to give yourself a competitive advantage, because.... mumble, nonsense, vaguely xenophobic slogan, MAGA, mumble.... commies!

Yea, sorry for the confusing Ridgeline bit. That was the only truck I could think of from a manufacturer that didn’t make trucks for the US, had a very different configuration (remember how much shit they caught for being unibody?), and really broke into the public zeitgeist. I guess the R1T and Santa Cruz count, but…

There was a really interesting segment on Marketplace a couple weeks ago talking about how the Barbie DreamHouse has evolved over the last 60 years. Basically, it’s a mashup of what children see and what they would want in an aspirational house.

If they continue to use Magna Steyr for production, Fisker should produce whatever sells. In the case of the US, pickups and SUVs sell. So I don’t see why they shouldn’t produce one, especially if the Ocean platform will support it. Maybe it’ll be the next Ridgeline.