This is perhaps the biggest transfer of wealth in American history. Most of those companies will just pocket the refund and no pass any of it on to the consumer. If prices go down at all, they won't be back to pre-tariff levels.

You paid the tariffs, but you ain't getting the refund.

You can do maintenance on EVs too. Lots of people work on older ones themselves. They aren't super complicated, and the level of lockdown is about the same as a fossil - it varies by manufacturer, and generally the more you pay for the car the worse it is.

There is much less maintenance you need to do on an EV anyway. Brake pads last forever, and some need a motor oil change once every 5 years or so. Batteries are good for at least 250k miles, more than even a well maintained petrol engine.

The market for working on them is more mature in some countries, particularly Norway. Even in the US though, it's very doable. Rich Rebuilds on YouTube makes videos about the ones he works on.

Norway has got that way already. It's a pain to go find fuel in a lot of places. Most of the petrol stations have been converted to charging stations.

I see that a lot, e.g. people saying Ukraine should not have given up its weapons. What would Ukraine have done with them? Nuke Moscow, get nuked back, and now everyone is dead and their country is a radioactive wasteland? And that's the best case scenario, where they don't start WW3 and get everywhere nuked.

It would have been the same conventional war that they got without nuclear weapons. You can safely ignore Putin's threats to use them too.

There are two seater sport EVs, you just aren't allowed to buy them.

Maybe Hyundai will do one eventually. Like their sport version of the Ioniq 5, with fake gears and everything. That's not really what I'd call a family car anyway.

I was going to say, they are stretching the definition of "delivered" in that second video. Lobbed on the driveway where it is highly likely to be stolen, perhaps.

Doesn't it screw Amazon? In the UK, it's their problem until you have it in your hands. If it gets stolen, they have to refund or replace it.

That's why I was surprised that eBay started offering a delivery service here. I've had a couple of things arrived damaged with it, and they refunded both me and the seller, and presumably claimed from the courier. But of course, the seller could have just shipped a broken item in the first place.

The current plan is to use SLS and Orion to get to lunar orbit, then transfer to the lander which will make its own way there. Then on the return, go back to to Orion in lunar orbit and head for Earth.

Not so much in the south because it rarely snows enough to be worth it, but up north they do clear footpaths as well.

Japan seems to have a good system where the local government just leaves bags of salt and grit around for local residents and business owners to spread as needed, but of course they wouldn't last 5 minutes here.

Studies have shown that driving ability drops off after so many hours without a break, so for commercial drivers there are strict limits. Many larger commercial vehicles have a device that actually enforces it too, preventing the vehicle being restarted until the driver has had their mandatory break.

We have fewer traffic accidents here.

5 hours motorway is possible in the UK, no problem. Traffic depends on the time of day. At night you can usually cruise uninterrupted. You get cheaper charging too, e.g. Tesla have off-peak rates that I sometimes make use of on the way home.

You realize that you have to stop and fuel your fossil more often as well.

We already know what your argument here is. A few extra minutes charging is going to make you miss your flight that is a 5 hour drive away. Just hope there isn't any traffic either, huh?

Shame you don't get BYD cars. They are installing 1.2MW chargers in the UK. 5 minutes to charge a massive battery. You can race it as you rush to the toilet and back. Something you may not know, due to safety issues you can't walk away from a car while you are refuelling it. You have to stand there and hold the lever on the handle the whole time. So unless you have an iron bladder, charging is actually faster.

You have to be careful here anyway, if you get into an accident towards the end of an 8 hour drive where you only stopped just long enough to pump more petrol into your car, you will likely be prosecuted for dangerous driving due to fatigue. It's one thing to risk your own neck, another to risk every other road user's.

We get snow, sure. They clear the roads, grit them with salt sometimes.

Up to about 8-9 hours in the UK, south cast to Scotland or vice versa.

No you don't understand, he needs to drive 900 miles with no notice. He keeps 100 gallons of petrol in his garage just in case. Stopping even for 10 minutes means his relative will die seconds before he arrives!

Seriously, he told me that 15 minutes of charging over a 5 hour drive would cause him to miss his flight once. The more you investigate these non-negotiable needs he has, the more laughable they become.

It's more like the United States isn't great for long road trips. You have a much worse selection of EVs than Europe, and a much worse charging situation.

My EV is great for long journeys. Cruises very well quiet and comfortable. I just drive until the battery gets down to 20% and then pull in at the next service area, have a quick cup of coffee while it charges and then I'm on my way again. I'd have stopped anyway for comfort.