We live on a busy street and the amount of PM/soot/etc. on our front steps (and in our lungs) disagrees that no more benefit can be made. Granted, talking about that type of pollution often gets skipped over in favor of the GHG/carbon discussion, but we have a long ways to go.

Florida is the Enthusiastically Eats Lead Paint Chips state.

Tell us you don’t remember California smog from the 80s without admitting you don’t remember California smog from the 80s.

Personally, I’d kinda like to see the world’s 5th largest economy declare it’s independence.

1St Gear: official wipe from documentation to PR reports doesn’t mean it’s gone. Many companies are just moving forward internally, with no changes to policy.  They know what’s right.

Yep, it’s a specious way to discourage EVs. It will unfairly punish people also that drive less miles per year.

At 18.4 cents per gallon, it would take nearly 5500 gallons of fuel to equal the $1000 tax on EVs. An average fill up of 15 gallons would be 366 fill ups. Every other week would be 14(!!!!) years of gas.

Oh it’ll matter.

Dude is a nazi.  Fuck him, I hope he dies.

Mandarin has the much more succinct ‘活該’—meaning you misbehave, you deserve what you get.

Most Americans who feel that way have never known enough hardship to fill a postcard; privilege has its downside.

Unfortunately a lot of Americans don’t seem to mind it.

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, but a bankrupt Nazi is a good start.

There are two expressions in the Dutch language that seem to fit exceptionally well:

World War Two still casts a long shadow,” Kraaijvanger told Wired.

Because the cars are only kept for a few years and they don’t really bother with maintenance, the majority of rental fleet expenses are from repairing damage. If the anecdotes are to be believed, a Tesla fender bender is terribly expensive and takes months to repair. Maybe part shortages kept EV fleet cars out of the…

I agree with all of this, plus it’s stressful to people that have never driven an EV to be wondering if they are going to need to spend an hour or whatever recharging the vehicle somewhere they’ve never been with something they’ve never used when they just want to make their flight.

I tried to rent a Polestar in Southern California. They kept sending me emails telling me about the Polestar’s features and “get ready to drive your Polestar” and then when I showed up, they “didn’t have any” and I got a damn Kia Niro EV. Even though I counted at least 3 Polestars in the lot as I pulled out. I was…

Operating an EV even now is a steep learning curve if you dont have a place to charge at home.  It takes a bit to get in the hang of finding and using chargers if you dont have one readily available to you.  Its not surprising people that people wont want to tackle that curve while on vacation.

Exactly. I think the fee was only ~$10 more than the supercharger would have cost in my case. Returning charged only makes sense if you can destination charge at the hotel/Airbnb.