And the Bolt is an amazingly good car to drive. At a good price, it’s a no brainer. When Toyota folks did competitive testing of EV cars (purchased themselves), the Bolt was the one that they came away impressed with in terms of engineering and build. 

Taiwan is more Japanese and European (and Euro Fords) Cars.

This is a weird place for Mercedes. We have a GLS and a E Class wagon for my wife and I to schlepp around the kids. But, my next car will be an electric in the 50-100k range.And it probably won’t be a Mercedes. It’ll be from an EV mfgr such as Lucid, Tesla, Rivian, or even Volvo

I think if charging at parking spots (like a modern day hitching post) becomes ubiquitous, then those issues would be less of a concern.

There are plenty of places that have water, affordable housing, lakes, and less wildfires.  Michigan isn’t a special snowflake.

You might show a list, but they’ll be doubly loud when they bitch about Pelosi getting a haircut. Fuck the GOP (and I used to be an ardent supporter in my younger ignorant years).

Actually, my understanding is that the chinese government wanted to harmonize the crash testing with the rest of world (sans US), and are testing at the same speed now.

If it isn’t on the US tests, you can always check JNCAP, EURO NCAP, ANCAP, and even the CNCAP (as well as a few others); as they all have relatively similar tests and can provide feedback on vehicles you’re looking for.

Guaranteed it’s cracked.  They all cracked.

That thing screams that it needs E-Code headlights.

I shit you not. I had that engine in a wagon when I was a kid. Didn’t change the oil for 25k miles. When it was changed, it was still bullet proof. When my parents got rid of the car 2 years later, it ran another 8 years.

NOO! My E Wagon was exceedingly rare already as is.  I’ll go and hug it later.

I’m all for front end adoption if it helps feed the BitTorrent trackers on the backend.

You obviously don’t have a STEM background, but any scientist or someone with a research background wouldn’t be so cocksure in making such claim about the virus’s provenance. It’ll take quite some time to determine origin.   (e.g. - the “Spanish Flu” has now been studied to likely have originated in the US, and the…

As I’m a forecaster (buy training, and paycheck), and am interested in numbers; plenty of models are saying that it’s a possibility. I would even argue that a portion of increases in other causes that aren’t attributed to covid-19 (such as delayed cancer diagnoses, suicide, etc) should still be attributed to the…

Even if China did squat, plenty of competent governments did something to bring their mortality down. the US did worse than squat. The Federal government actively told states they were on their own; then worked against the states that Trump didn’t think were supporting him. That’s fascist bullshit.

Actually most countries are underreporting due to testing limitations. When you know that death rates trends are easily predictable at a population level, any excess mortality (well over 200k in the US alone this year thus far) vs prior years can be attributed to an externality (in this case, Covid-19).

That said, I’m…

Regardless whether or not you’ve done something, there are reasons why the treatment has to be the same and above board and by the book. Otherwise, it’s the fucking Stasi all over again.

This is why I left it as “government”, but should’ve noted incompetent/authoritarian/fascist/libertarian . But point taken. Competency in government bureaucracy exists (and isn’t uncommon), but it has to be done by design.

35-45k/year die from driving in the US. The death toll is multiple times that in a few months already here.