Considering the high costs (and increasing) of fighting fires any aid that helps is a good thing. Less losses, and less costs passed to us.

Legal liability and insurer exposure will do what ethics couldn't.

And what was it for the last twenty-five years? Seems people say, AI and it's suddenly, privacy, security, etc. Something that should have been done when "database nation" was published in 2000.

If people were "thinking and doing" in the first place we wouldn't have Trump.

Dwell time stood out in that gold mine of a site. Reinforcing the BEV argument. It also means that if it can survive in the US it can survive in the world.

Pretty much but the reduction in mechanics is a big one.

Methane and biodiesel are sitting there waiting to fill in the gaps between what we have and the all electric dream. Farms, ranches, etc, sitting on a gold mine aka waste streams.

And since China makes electric commercial trucks. This will pair perfectly with their push with solar and battery.

One shouldn't ignore the influence Chinese EVs will have on the entire equation considering transportation is driven by oil, especially commercial transportation.

It's going to be a good path for a lot of countries to diminish the power of the petrodollar and oil and gas in general.

Said to an audience hiding behind their ad-blockers. Mourning not it's loss.

Climate change doesn't give a damn what mankind says about it, or the attempts to avoid responsibility. It's coming for us and payback is going to be a bitch regardless of whom.

Self-reporting, perception based study from a very narrow and short sampling but doesn't actually measure productivity.

I would expect Canada to have the same "large country" problem we do and go more towards hybrids. They also have cheap hydro as well which helps EV adoption.