No, it's not that easy. Because you have two different offices to agree, the political office in the Ministry of Defense, and the military office Direktion (directorate) 6.

It does not work that way. The "CTO" would be Generalmajor (Major General) Hermann Kaponig, as the commanding officer of the Cybertruppen (Cyber corps). But he has no right to purchase anything, because this would be the task of the Ministry of Defense. On the other hand, the Ministry of Defense would not buy any software the Direktion (directorate) 6 does not condone.

Yes, and one solution proposed was to make DST voluntary for businesses, which I pointed out was nonsense, as opening times are already voluntary for businesses, nevertheless they all sychronized out of necessity.

You don't solve the problem at hand. Businesses right now already have the right to open whenever they see fit. But they all synchronized on a 9-5 schedule. Why is that? Because customers have to know when to expect businesses to be open, and businesses have to know when to expect their business partners to be open, so they can schedule accordingly.

Time zones are how customers and businesses are synchronized, if they are not immediate neighbors. Time zones are a result of the invention of telegraphs and railways, for the first time making it necessary to know the local time of people you can't just walk over and ask. And as long as you don't abolish long distance communication and travel, the need for time zones will continue.

DST does not solve it, but makes it worse. If you want that additional bright hour in the evening, it will cost you that hour in winter mornings.

So you don't mind getting up in absolute darkness during Winter times and not having any sunlight for the next two hours?

Brazil is around the Equator, where there is basically no difference in daylength between summer and winter times.

DST is for countries outside the Tropics, where the time of Sunrise and Dawn differs greatly between the saisons.

It makes sense for Brazil to have no DST. It makes sense for Minnesota to have it.

As a parent of two, I never experienced it. Children adapt much more easily than parents.

We introduced time zones because locals having their own time was too confusing. Or do you know from memory if Peru, IL has CST or moved to EST during summer for longer evenings?

Because parents have to be in office at 9 am.

While your hypothesis looks nice at first glance, it has a glaring hole: Experiments with turbine powered cars had ended before the first NOx legislation. The Chrysler Turbine Car dates from 1963. At the same time in the UK, Rover debuted the P6, which was engineered to host the Rover gas turbine, which was tested in a Rover P4 as the T2, T3 and T4 prototypes, but it never came to pass. Then you have some experiments with gas turbine powered race cars until 1968. The Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act was enacted in 1965.

The experiments to put gas turbines into cars for sale ended two years before NOx mandates were enacted. They were continued for race cars, which aren't affected by the mandates, but fizzled out a few years later.

And this is called the amplitude.

Depends on what you are talking about. Are you talking wavelength or amplitude?

The Nissan Ariya is based on the same platform (AmpR Medium) as for instance the Renault Scénic E Tech and the Renault A390. It was formerly known as Renault–Nissan Common Module Family (CMF) EV. It is a shared platform with Dongfeng Motor Corporation. In July 2025, Dongfeng and Nissan formed Dongfeng Nissan. One of the products coming from its assembly lines is - tada! - the Nissan Ariya.

The question being: Will you be able get an U.S. or Japanese EV then which is not based on Chinese technology? And does it make sense to keep up a mindset adapted to internal combustion engines in an era of electrical cars? Do you know which parts usually wear out and fail in EVs, and after which time? The Nissan Leaf is not a good example. It was prone to battery wear far above the expected rate. Newer EVs have battery wear far below the expected rate. And do you know when the innovation in EV design slows down so far that it makes sense to keep parts for 15 or 20 year old cars? 15 years ago, Tesla was selling the Tesla Roadster, basically an EV conversion of the Lotus Elise, co-developed by AC Propulsion and Lotus. Do you need spare parts for a Tesla Roadster? The first EV to ever sell in large numbers, the Tesla Model S, is not even 15 year old right now.

My prediction is that you will buy an EV just because they will be cheaper to get and cheaper to operate than a comparable ICE car, and repairs far into the future will be a very second thought. At the moment, we have price parity, that means the same amount of money gets you the same amount of new car in both worlds. In five years time, this will also be true for the used car market.