Almost 85 percent of the global primary energy demand was met by coal, natural gas, and oil in 2023. According to projections based on the current trend of the energy sector, fossil fuels will maintain a leading role in the primary energy sector until 2050.
The actual numbers are from the first three quarters when incentives were still available. The recent reports have been that sales have dived after a brief increase just before incentives ended.
Please stop ruining The Narrative with your malinformation and facts.
Many couples don’t believe they can afford to start a family. As the cost of living continues to balloon, this affects a couple’s ability to raise children comfortably. For those contemplating whether to have children, the mere cost of child care, which is an average of $15,600 per year, provokes questions of whether it is even feasible.
This is not just future generation's problem. Catastrophic lack of affordability for housing, healthcare, and childcare results in fewer kids, this in turn means that in 20 years there will be less adults working and paying taxes, in turn bankrupting social nets. So today's childlessness crisis will translate to tomorrow destitute seniors crisis.
What happens in 5 years to all the cloud connected cars?
Disabling of functionality and continuation of data collection.
The mass-adoption of automotive spyware started around 2019 (OnStar existed long prior to that) where a combination of cheap cell modems and bulk contracts with telecoms allowed it happen. This was sold as over-the-air updates, but really it was always-connected car that collects all your driving data. Most cars were sold with 5 or 10 year "free" plans where integration with various apps and similar IoShit features were bundled in with the car purchase. So they would entice owners to click OK when they downloaded app to monitor car door locks or to enable remote start and burred in ToS permission to sell data (which is transferred to the next owner when the car is sold). As such, it is likely that they will keep collecting data while no longer supporting any of the features that were offered to new car owners and count on people's ignorance of the fact. Some manufacturers (I know for certain Subaru does, as you can request it) have ability to send remote kill to the modem and they also have ability to blacklist SIM ICCID to disconnect them at the provider level. So once used cars get hacked into botnets etc., they will send out mass disconnect to the affected models.
It's Communist Party of China (CPC), not Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Sorry comrade for mixing that up, good to have someone with first-hand experience to correct this.
Per buck you get more computing action with the small computer. -- R.W. Hamming
