Also, I might add that rental vehicles are half the cost across the ocean. In fact they are dirt cheap compared to Canada. So you can rent a train and rent a vehicle without blowing your budget. In the last couple years rentals have gone up to easily 150 a day so I am always trying to drive my own vehicle whenever possible.

Well they are smaller than Canada and the US are they not? They probably have a more evenly distributed population rather than major cities with hours in between without anything so they know they can place a charger anywhere and it will be profitable. Also in combination with being smaller, they have better mass transit which means you aren't depending on the EV to go everywhere you want to go. On top of that, Norway basically bribes people to buy EVs. They make EVs less expensive while making ICEs more expensive. Sweden does the same thing. All of this serves to combat the downfalls of EVs

I'm still waiting for Milkdrop 2 / projectX to work in Linux. You can download hundreds of config files for it that all look totally different. Have never seen a visualizer besides Milkdrop or Milkdrop 2 that doesn't get boring after awhile.

Can you not understand a sentence without smart quotes?

According to copilot, Scandinavia also gives tax exemptions and lowered rates for EVs. Here they are expected to work more on their own merit.

Small country, probably a lot of other travel options.

I'm really not sure how AI can be useful for business use if you don't copy sensitive information. Say you are having AI assist you with a long script. If you have to blank out every IP address, hostname, etc before getting that assistance, then the AI quickly becomes less worthwhile. To put it another way, why would my company beg me to use AI if they didn't want that stuff in there? It seems like unrealistic expectations are being put on the employee here, as usual.

Watch street outlaws and learn.

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.

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?

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.