It's kind of pressing now because fuel prices are so high here. I drive 26 miles to work, and my '08 Versa's 28 combined (pretty accurate actually) is unsatisfying. I really wish I could just take light rail. The rail line is sort of there from here to there, though it isn't really, but it makes me sad every time I drive over it.
Last time I checked most of what comprises a vehicle can burn.
All of what comprises a vehicle can burn, with enough oxygen, but that information isn't really useful.
UBI is a fantasy. Capitalism is the one system that has consistently worked to raise people out of poverty.
Capitalism has never raised anyone out of poverty without controls on who can profit. As we have weakened those controls, capitalism has become less of a force for lifting people from poverty and more of a force for keeping them there.
UBI isn't anti-capitalistic any more than taxation. Both are ways to make the system work sustainably.
People are not going to be out of work. Old jobs may disappear, but new ones will appear.
That is not a cleanly managed process with working social systems to handle the overlap. The social safety net payout amounts are all based on a federal minimum wage which is not sufficient to maintain a reasonable standard of living in any state. Some of the numbers we still use today to determine eligibility, benefit amount, share of cost etc. are from the eighties, while others are from the sixties.
Each major disruption has improved life, and AI will be no different.
Each major disruption has literally caused people to die because there has not been enough management of the transition. If you say that AI will be no different, and you also say that the change should be celebrated, then you're saying we should celebrate negative effects up to and including deaths.
The Democrats differ from Republicans in important respects, but few of them are economic. The differences are mostly in the area of human rights. They are united in selling out our future for kickbacks from profit today. Democrats crowing about how well "the economy" is doing when the wins are all for the ultra-wealthy is typically on brand, but the Republicans do the exact same thing so that doesn't illustrate any difference between the parties or any reason to vote for one over the other. Those reasons are all somewhere else.
So what exactly does it take to become a "think tank"? Fill out a few forms?
Hire some people that people will listen to, and release some articles telling people what to do.
You will find it helpful to have financial backers, and of course you will only find those who can profit from what you intend to say...
You live in a town small enough to barely have street lighting but also with small lots. This is pretty unusual, I reckon.
It's common throughout the parts of this county that aren't way out in bumfuck, or IOW, the parts which have any significant number of people in them.
Sodium vapour lamps are pretty efficient. Not as good as modern LEDs with good drivers but there's likely less difference than you expect.
But that's where the available capacity is supposed to be coming from. Otherwise they'd have to run new wiring. The LEDs are a lot better focused (sometimes excessively so) so you don't need as many total lumens output, which also reduces the power consumption.
What percentage? Given the average daily drive and average range, people don't need to charge daily on average.
They do if they're doing the low-level charging we can get from streetlights without a project to retrofit the wiring, increasing the cost of the installation. And there isn't the money to do what we could do without that. The state is running a deficit right now, so there's no state funding available. The federal funding available now is only for installation on interstates. So it's flatly just not happening.
Tesla has been running at a loss to grow the company. Most of their vehicles are profitable, cybercrap notwithstanding. That dumpster is a huge fuckup, though, there's no way around that.
If it weren't for that, I'd be 100% in agreement with you; open the doors to competition so long as they build in the USA and let the existing manufacturers compete or fail.
The door is already open for that. Biden's protectionist tariffs are on imported vehicles and batteries (and other stuff) so e.g. BYD could still open a plant here, just like all the Japanese automakers have done.
Of course, it oversimplifies things to make it out like this was all some villainous plot.
It was literally a villainous plot.
The concept of private vehicle ownership sounds good at first glance.
The conspiracists bought up profitable rail transit systems and destroyed them. Clearly people thought what was destroyed was good, because they were using it.
Parts make a lot of money for dealers, not for manufacturers.
If you've bought many parts from dealers you know they have wide discretion to reduce the prices of the parts, and that is because there's a lot of profit built into the prices. I've had dealers occasionally take pity on me and reduce prices to literally 25% of the list, and they STILL weren't losing any money on them. I know because they told me so.
China's EVs are heavily subsidized on multiple levels
America's ICEVs are too.
Maybe we should phase out those subsidies and phase in some for EVs.
Do you not have street lighting in your city? I'm pretty sure the GP is referring to those, meaning there's a extant and accessible connection to the power grid near almost every parking space. All that's needed is installation of a charge point from any of the many companies which make in lamp post charge points.
I live in a tiny little "city" with very little street lighting. There's not a lamp post in front of my house. The streetlights in this town have not been converted to LED, so there's no free capacity for chargers yet. Even if there were, it would only serve a small percentage of the people on my street. The property taxes are kept low by California property tax law, so there's no money to do it with. They did spend the money to put in one or two dedicated fast chargers in the only public parking lot, which is some blocks away. No clue on what their uptime is, but I'm not parking over there. For people who live closer, it might be a solution, but it's not the "charging at home" that we're discussing.
If you're only given one piece you are in the dark.
If you're not given a clear policy to follow that prevents this from happening then your leadership is a pack of incompetents.
This is the same thing I already said, of course, but I'm hoping that by rewording it I find words which are within your vocabulary.
That distinction is irrelevant, because either of those things is equally effective at preventing me from charging an EV. "It's only happening because of greed" is a meaningless argument when greed is so reliable.
Power near parking spaces is available to the vast majority of the population and has been since your grandfather's time.
Define "near"? Is it on the same side of the sidewalk as where the vehicles park, so that you don't have to illegally run a cord across it in order to plug in? It isn't for me, and I don't even live in a dense city. This argument is meaningless. Your other points about EVs and ICEVs being equal in those various regards (like phoning home) are totally valid, but charging continues to be a real problem for real people who actually exist and are not at all hypothetical.
I can not charge at home. I do not have anywhere to charge near work. Charging an EV would be a real and substantial hardship for me. I want to drive an EV. I am tired of working on ICEVs. They are fucking annoying all day. I don't like smelling them, I don't like hearing them, I don't like owning one. But it's my only realistic option, and pretending I don't exist or assuming that I'm lying about it is just being shitty.
Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
