Electric Vehicles here to stay, for good or bad?

[Shady]

We actually went to Cuba. There was a window of about a year, maybe two where diplomatic relations loosened. We went as tourists four years ago directly from the US, and I can attest that they live in squalor. The front facing facade of antique cars and colorful tropics gives way to destitute peoples surrounded by hopelessness. We hired a private guide who took us to the not so tourist places. Yes, these are very impoverished people. I’ve never been so uncomfortable, but felt so safe in my life. Uncomfortable because diplomatic relations, though improved, were not good. I always had a nagging feeling that I was being watched. Safe, because tourism is their lifeblood, and attacks on tourists were not tolerated by authorities.

Sounds like Chicago to me.

and a ton of other cities in the US

 

[Shady]

I will just leave this here

The Ford F-150 Lightning Is the 2023 MotorTrend Truck Of The Year

The F-150 Lightning is the first electric pickup to appeal directly to existing truck buyers, doing it so well that it’s easily our 2023 Truck of the Year.

www.motortrend.com

 

[candcallen]

I will just leave this here

The Ford F-150 Lightning Is the 2023 MotorTrend Truck Of The Year

The F-150 Lightning is the first electric pickup to appeal directly to existing truck buyers, doing it so well that it’s easily our 2023 Truck of the Year.

www.motortrend.com

Look, these things interest me. I can see myself owning one if it checks my boxes, I could easily get by with one now as the second vehicle in the family, but truck of the year? I havnt seen a bigger piece of pandering virtue signaling bullshit since Barry Sotero got the Nobel peace prize.

Motor trend Say you will happily swallow gobberment semen without setting up a public glory hole in DC.

Lol

Like gun shows/magazines raving about shit guns cause they are a sponsor and swag provider.

 

[Brains]

Indeed, Motor Trend has nominated some real pieces of junk over the years. Sometimes they pick a good one. It's a car magazine for non car people, what can you expect?

 

[pronstar]

Motor Trend COTY = an award that the winners buy via ad dollars

Not unlike other awards, but they’ve been “busted” publicly several times over the years by making it all too obvious

 

[Grumps21]

Who cares what a magazine says? I mean, is it any different than this?

Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year

The climate activist has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change

time.com

 

[BigRed]

Unless the system is built around that sort of thing.

Yeah, I know they're commies, but I admire the way Cuba deals with hurricanes. Block captains make sure everybody is accounted for. No one tries to stay home and protect their stuff because people with trucks are paid to haul everybody's valuables (generally just their refrigerator) out of danger. School buses pick up everyone and take them to the same spots that their neighborhood has always evacuated to.

The system works.

The price for that sort of efficiency is the same that it always is. Government intrusive enough to arrange such things virtually crushes the people on a day to day basis. Poverty is endemic. For those and a thousand other reasons, the price is far too high.

So I'm not sticking up for the Cuban way. I'm just pointing out that when it comes to making emergency transportation work, we'll figure it out. One way or another, and probably after much pain and many lost lives, we'll figure it out.

Even if the prevalence of electric vehicles makes those situations worse, we'll learn lessons and work it out.

Humans are great at adapting. We suck at preventing problems but we're great at adapting to them.

It's already been figured out.

I've got a diesel 4x4 sitting right there in the barn!

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

And a new worry for EV owners (not to mention the rest of us).

Weight of electric vehicles could 'lead to car parks collapsing'

The British Parking Association wants local authorities to conduct urgent structural surveys to avoid potential damage. Electric cars are roughly twice as heavy as standard models

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[candcallen]

That's the way to kill EVs. Ban them from parking garages. Lol the elites will shit kittens.

 

[candcallen]

Can you imagine the fires in that situation?

The water required to put out a bunch of ev fires in a collapsed car park would be copious to say the least.

 

[Tnhawk]

That's the way to kill EVs. Ban them from parking garages. Lol the elites will shit kittens.

The CA parking garages will likely restrict ground level parking to EV only.

 

[benenglish]

That's the way to kill EVs. Ban them from parking garages. Lol the elites will shit kittens.

I saw a news story a few days ago (I have no idea where) that in some location electric cars were already banned from multi-story parking garages.

 

[Grumps21]

I saw a news story a few days ago (I have no idea where) that in some location electric cars were already banned from multi-story parking garages.

When we visited Ft Sumpter earlier this year, the public parking garage at the marina in Charleston SC had a sign prohibiting EVs from parking there. They were relegated to street parking only

 

[candcallen]

Once we have a few more fires and some salt water reactions I bet we have more restrictions.

 

[Tnhawk]

Once we have a few more fires and some salt water reactions I bet we have more restrictions.

biden will try to restrict salt water.

 

[BigRed]

biden will try to restrict salt water.

When he's burning in Hell he'll be wishing he had some to drink

 

[Tnhawk]

When he's burning in Hell he'll be wishing he had some to drink

There'll be a place reserved for him!

 

[candcallen]

When he's burning in Hell he'll be wishing he had some to drink

So I'm saving my piss for nothing?

 

[Tnhawk]

So I'm saving my piss for nothing?

Save some for Hanoi Jane!

 

[Axxe55]

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