Road maintenance is typically paid for with taxes levied on gasoline. This will need to change eventually. Personally I think it should wait in order to speed the transition.

If the major manufacturers don’t step up their EV game they are going to get Kodak’d, and they are going to deserve it.

I prefer paying less for things. But I would never buy a Hummer.

Mazda didn’t produce any contenders. Try harder next time.

I would never use an inductive charger. Wasteful and way more expensive to charge due to inefficiency.

Lithium is important right now, so this is good news if it is true, but I would be surprised if we don’t see some big advancements over the next 20 years that make it less important. If we ever figure out how to produce supercapacitors that are sufficiently super and sufficiently capacious, we could conceivably stop using batteries altogether.

Dang. Sounds useful.

Pretty sure you can direct these motors to behave however you want them to behave with the right sensors and software. I also don’t see why locking is inherently important - the important thing is putting power to wheels that have traction and not spinning the wheels that don’t. The quad motor configuration would use the computer to accomplish that rather than mechanical linkages which would be much less intelligent about dispatching torque.

Harbour Air in Victoria BC has already been testing electric seaplanes for the short puddle jumper trips they fly and plan to electrify their entire fleet. Electric planes may never have the range of the ones we have today but they can be perfectly practical for tasks that fall within their abilities.

This is part of the reason I will wait until 2025. The other reason is that I no longer want a Tesla.

I think you just wrote another one.

Guess the anti lithium propaganda will need to expand into anti sodium propaganda.

Sounds like a vending machine that dispenses washer fluid through a hose. I wonder if car washes would be easier to partner with than charging stations.

That doesn’t logically follow, bot.

Lol

Subsidize everything except fossil fuels and hydrogen.

No.

Nothing I love more than destroying demand for fossil fuels. Ebikes are a total game changer.

That is a very tiny fraction of what the fossil fuel industry gets in subsidies, and not nearly enough to prevent catastrophe.

Fuck subscription access to physical hardware. If you sell me something, it’s mine.