I need a 300 mile range

This exists.

range and a 4 hour turn around

You can just about do that at home on AC if you have a good connection. It's only a 32A 3 phase connection.

I want to take the wife out to a movie in the evening after a long commute.

You want a 300 mile range, right? If you're commuting 250 miles round trip and then another, say, 50 to the cinema, frankly you need to evaluate your life choices. You're wasting your life on the road.

You may want to note that this Youtube's guy primary complaint was about the poor customer service, that seems to be quite regional, and that he very much still is a fan of his Ioniq 5 with the strongest comment being that until this is fixed it is "a bit harder to recommend [the car]. Still consider it."

This got a lot of bad press this year so I suspect if the OP's next car will come sometime next year it's likely not going to be a problem anymore. But ... they have been working on this issue a while already so there is that.

The world doesn't care about American stupidity, and no even if no EVs were sold in the USA after September 30th, global EV sales for 2025 were sill ahead of 2024.

Tesla has been announcing and promising a cheaper version of their car since the Model S first took pre-orders. Literally. They have yet to deliver a car that meets their promised budget goal for the last 15 years. Your claim makes zero sense. Also this is a company that amid the Cybertruck sales slump, and the inability to sell Cybertrucks decided the best option was to include mandatory features in several Wankpanzer trims increasing their cost, so even without Tesla's promises they have shown to do the exact opposite of what you claim for the exact reason you claim it.

You didn't notice the "Even in America ..." part of TFS?

Despite what the article claims, the YTD data doesn't yet reflect the recent change in political winds. America looks to be bucking another worldwide trend once the dust over the loss of the EV tax credit settles. It wouldn't be the first time, but if I mention any of the other issues where the US is also an outlier among first world nations, that'd be off-topic.

Oh is that the "buht the tire particulates" moron? Or the one repeating early 2010s era coal power plant emissions bullshit? Or the "but lithium mining causes huge CO2 emissions" bullshit?

The one notable exception to this was that there was a significant number of Chevy Bolts that ended up with brand new batteries due to the recall. Those ended up being a sleeper hit when it came to getting a cheap used EV.

Still, that wasn't a car that's for everyone. It suffers some pretty serious range loss in places that actually have a winter, and the DC fast charging curve is slow. Realistically, you have to figure about an hour to go from 20%-80%, which isn't too bad if you're combining it with a meal, but for any trips where you want to go beyond the car's initial range plus whatever a single charging stop gets you, the waiting will become tedious.

The current administration wanted to do that by imposing a national vehicle registration fee for EVs. Some states already do this with higher registration fees for EVs (and oddly enough, not all of the states are red ones).

You might want to look into the problems they've been having with their ICCUs. It actually bit the Technology Connections YouTube guy, which was kind of funny because he'd been a big fan of his Ioniq 5 until it shit itself. I think lately he's been fixing up a Nissan Cube with a standard tranny. That's an odd pivot from an EV, but I guess he's begun to value having a car that is based on tech you can wrench yourself when things go wrong.

The EV tax credit still existed until September 30 of this year, so it's a bit premature to say everything is still peachy keen regarding EV sales. GM is expecting a sales slump and has adjusted production accordingly. Tesla also recently announced new a stripped-down base model tier for both their Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, something they'd realistically only be doing if they anticipated, shall we say, challenging market conditions.

And I think it's safe to say they're going to lose sales. I don't think they'll lose all of them but I would expect to lose about half that quarter or about 12%. Worst case it could be as high as 15.

A normal company losing 15% of its sales would be dead meat. Wall Street would cut it up for parts.

But people bought into Tesla when it was so ridiculously overvalued that everybody is afraid of being the one who pulls the trigger. Nobody wants to get caught holding the bag when it eventually collapses.

Meanwhile Elon musk's last two pay packages are worth about $100 billion dollars. If you're wondering how he's going to get that money since those were stock deals he's going to dump the stock into pensions and 401ks. To put that into perspective it's more money than Tesla can make in 50 years with the subsidies...

It's not a question of when company is going to collapse it's just which of the big four are going to buy up the remains and who gets caught holding the bag. I am pretty certain it won't be Elon

After world war II Russia was a burnt-out husk and it never fully recovered. Putting a criminal in charge of the country was the final straw. Russia was never a threat and there was zero reason to have a cold war with them except to keep the military industrial complex going and to line the pockets of well connected defense contractors at the expense of the public at Large.

At this point with Russia not even able to subdue a nation of 20 million it's stupidly obvious they are no threat so we can't use them to go booga booga at voters.

So China is the next step. And China for their part is happy to use America as an external threat to keep their populace in line. Because we've always been at war with Eurasia.

We never fucking learn.

It may not be for you Mr Rich Westerner. But you come from a world where shared pooled resources optimised the delivery of infrastructure. That is far less ambitious than tens of millions of people working to build their own.

The entire railroad industry during construction of the railroad employed only a small fraction of the people compared to what is being discussed in TFA.

Power plants are lucky to be the work of a workforce more than a couple of thousand people strong. It's not ambitious or difficult in the slightest, even the first ones. You're looking at this from the completely wrong angle. The ambition here is related not to how it gets power to people, but rather how it does so given the insane inefficiency of everyone doing it themselves. Building one powerplant is easy. Building 10s of million tiny ones... that's an ambitious project.

The correct answer exists between your post and the GP's. Yes some regulation is important, like the ones you list. In other cases it's just completely pointless bullshit. My example (not America, so be happy you aren't the only special ones) we had dormers installed. The one on the front roof required council permit approval. They insisted the dormers have white frames and rejected our desire to make it in anthracite on the basis that both our neighbours are white and wanting a "consistent look". They only looked at the houses either side of us. The rest of the street is a fucking rainbow already. It is *less* consistent now that there are three houses in a row with the same colour façade *** just on the dormers.

Please don't dismiss the GP's complaints are irrelevant. There are really very many rules which are just outright silly to EVERYONE.

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. It wasn't ugly IMO, but what it was ... is ... well the other games. Not only was it going against entrenched competition, it brought literally *nothing new* to the landscape. It's unfair to say the competition outclassed them in any way other than being established. These games are all samey, but the problem is you can't convince people to switch from their established live service title to another one without offering them something for the effort.

Concord was a fine game. It may even have been a roaring success had the others not come long before, but as it is it just had nothing to offer anyone.

The only fact presented is that someone doesn't understand what the article is about, and how insignificant the USA is in total number of *global* EV sales.