We shouldn't just presume careers that pay less are the biggest source of loan problems.

Why not?

If you take on debt to learn skills we KNOW will not allow you to earn enough money to pay off once in practice...that by definition leads to loan payment problems.

We need to STOP loans, scholarships and grants for any field that has no realistic promise of having the student make enough money to pay back plus extra.....let's only target fields we need that make money.

If you want to take the other crap...then feel free to pay for it yourself.

with majors that are money losers in the job markets.

Well, how about we STOP giving grants, scholarships and loans (especially loans) to students for degrees that are worthless. If you want to study the effects on underwater basket weaving on indigenous gender fluid mollusks....then you pay for it on your own time.

I think that might cut a LOT of waste out.....let's try to only train for things that will benefit society and make the student some money after school

Cut the students and that will cut the loans and colleges will have to drop prices back to more normal levels.

and even many fuckable men want to pay...because they want someone more attractive than they can get on their own or think it's simpler to pay a prostitute than look for a hookup on an app.

Remember, when you've buying SEX with a woman, you're not paying her to come there....you're paying her to LEAVE after you're done with the deed.

With regular women dates....it can quickly become much more expensive....as that they want more, don't always go away and if they stick around long enough they can really cost you.

In many cases, it's better to just set the parameters at the beginning....because either way as a man, you WILL pay for it.

You only need to look at the overall population. 80% of people in the US live in urban areas.

What do you define as "urban"? I tend to think of extremely dense cities, like NYC or maybe Chicago.

I don't generally think of places like Houston as "urban"...since they are so spread out, not vertical like NYC where apartments stacked up and no private parking is the norm.....

IN the US, we really dont have THAN many classic urban areas.....at least not to my mind.

I think the urban of NYC matches more with Europe cities.....but. Many large cities like LA or Houston do not fil that type of urban mold.....

With that in mind I don't think you're comparing apples to apples with regard to EVs....

Their big problem is that they haven't figured out how to make money on EVs. Part of the problem is their dealer networks don't want to sell them due to the lower maintenance costs. That keeps the volume down to where they can't amortize the costs properly.

In the US...also, there just is not THAT much demand for EVs. The people that want them largely have them.

You might get a few more when the price on EVs comes down and people see that used resell don't bottom out so much.....to make it a better value.

But other than that, the rest of us in the US just really don't want an EV at this time, especially those of us that cannot charge at home for whatever reason.

Maybe we'll finally see a return to real film. I'll dig up my ole, trusty 500C/M from the basement just in case.

I dunno about you, but I still scan my film negatives out of my Hasselbland 500 CM.....so even with shooting on film, it ends up on the computer in the end....

So, what would be wrong with an actor or actress selling their scanned image WITH contractual obligations to be PAID whenever the image was used in a film or when used as source to generate a new digital actor?

Wouldn't continuing pay and residuals help make the argument here?

Many U.S. states have "right-to-charge" laws, but they only apply if you have a private parking space, not street parking. Choosing an apartment with a private parking space is a good idea anyway.

Most normal apartment competexes I've ever seen in the US do NOT have private or assigned parking spots....they are all big parking lots with first come, first serve....

On long trips abroad, EVs need to charge about three times more often, but you just plug in, go to the restroom or restaurant, and then unplug. With a petrol car, you stand at a smelly pump for five-plus minutes filling the tank, and then stand in a queue to pay

I"m guessing you're not familiar with how it works in the US.

I can't rambler last time (decades ago) that I paid for gas inside....everyone pays at the pump with a credit card.

And on a long trip....or say a mildly long trip of 400 or so miles. I stop half way for about 5-10 minutes total to gas up and hit the restroom.

Most of the time that is my ONLY stop....I want to get to my destination I'm not out to hang out at truck stops, pee, leisurely eat or drink while recharging a car....

At most I might pull off and pee one other time on that trip but that's only 5 minutes max.....

I've never met people like you EV'ers that seem to just stop 4 or so times on a trip and spend 30-45 minutes to lounge around, rest, eat, refuel....when I'm on the road...I'm trying to make the BEST time I possibly can at all times.....I'm all about the destination, not the journey....

The best numbers I've been able to find put that number at about 25% of car owners

In the US, I thought I'd seen the number being closer to fully 1/3 of the population that did not have offstreet private parking where they could recharge every day....

I'm not in favor of the govt intervening....I'm ok with them maybe helping to get charging infrastructure going a bit more, but I don't want taxes or incentives on EV or ICE....let the market work that out. When the EVs are truly beating out the ICE vehicles.....the public will switch....if they don't, then they don't...but the govt shouldn't be choosing winners and losers here.

Before leaving the charger, you can see your next charging stop and the expected arrival SoC (state of charge). Only an idiot would leave a charger without having enough battery. You can also choose to charge more and skip the next charger - for example, if youÃ(TM)re stopping for lunch.

Sounds like a pain in the ass to me.

With my normal car (ICE), I don't have to 'plan' my trip based on where I have to fuel up....with the few exceptions of extremity, like crossing a few desert areas in the US, but for the majority of the US....there's a gas station on every corner in a city and all long the highways....you don't have to know where...they're just there whenever you need them.

And...gas is getting so cheap again too.....

Last time I used one of those apps to find chargers in my area....I found precious few for the whole city area that were public.....

I've only seen a few in a Whole Foods parking lot, and I think there were some in a Winn-Dixie parking lot.

But the few the apps showed were mostly private chargers.

so, living here if you can't charge at home, you're pretty screwed.....EV is just not the way to go around here in the New Orleans area.

With TCO it is cheaper to put there bigger battery and remove the ICE. But most of the new car buyers cannot calculate TCO and they care only about purchase price.

Well, you also have to consider the large number of people that do not have the capability to charge at home.

If you cannot charge at home, then an EV just doesn't not make much sense in most of the US.

Most of the range anxiety goes away once you see how effective overnight charging is.

If, in fact, you are one of those lucky enough to be able to park offstreet and charge at home overnight....

Depends where in the world you live. For the hundreds of millions of people living in Europe or countries like Singapore or Malaysia, thereâ(TM)s no need for a second car. People take the train for longer journeys. I was 43, married, with two kids aged 9 and 11, before I got a first car ten years ago - and it only had a range of 90 miles. I live in north London, and we just didnâ(TM)t have much need for a car up to that point. When we went to see my parents in Manchester, it was easier to get the train.

We're talking the US...and here it's hard to get by with only 1 car per family, although it can be done.

But in most middle class and up families, eventually everyone in the household has their own car.