Then you would be wrong. Probably best to recuse yourself from weighing in on this dicsussion.

I'm glad you looked up the real number as I usually see estimates of 65% of USians or something like that living in apartments (zero of which have chargers installed in the parking lot of course).

But what you are saying is that no progress can be made on the other 66% who can install a home charger until absolutely every possible case is covered, which is not out of touch but simply pro-Big Oil propaganda.

Here come the edge cases! Apartments! Towing a trailer from San Diego to Maine. Driving from Little Rock to Boise to return that tool you borrowed but being back in time for work at 0700. Nothing is decided until everything is decided.

Sure, whatever.

Batteries are about to get significantly less expensive. CATL’s new sodium ion batteries are going into production next year. BDY’s Seagull is already about $11,000 in most of the world. Soon it will be less than $10,000. Huawei and Xiaomi cars won’t be far behind. Of course the USA will keep raising tariffs to protect the losers at Ford, GM, and Stellantis. But in the rest of the world Chinese EVs are going to dominate the market by some time in the 2030s.

Auto industry analysts and enthusiasts alike have a hard time understanding how Stellantis is still in business, particularly now that they have screwed up the Jeep line in North America. I wouldn't take them as indicative of anything.

Beg to differ a bit: while GM made some missteps, particularly in handing the VOLTEC technology over to their PRC subsidiary and dropping it in North America, they took their time to develop a well-engineered and manufacturable EV platform for the next 10-15 years. The problem is their executive team is now living in fear of what a fascist regime could do to them if they don't toe the line and that has given the anti-progress faction at GM operations HQ the chance to counterattack and put anchors on EV marketing and sales. Really a shame and it will cost them dearly over the next 20 years [1].

[1] the anti-progress faction at GM will be well-retired to their backwoods Michigan cabins with their 2,847hp offroad pickup trucks by then

There's only one question in my mind: when the United States wakes up 10 years from now and realizes we have fallen 20 years behind in basic and applied science, EVs, public transportation, and re-creating our built environment to center humans instead of machines (ok, we're already 30 years behind on that last) WHO ARE WE GOING TO BLAME?!? SOMEONE DID THIS TO US - THEY MUST BE PUNISHED!!!

"Electric vehicles are one of those things that are a really good idea in theory but out in the real world they are just simply unworkable. "

EVs are like the apocryphal bumblebee: they don't work in theory, yet millions of people use them every day with no more serious inconvenience than ICE vehicles experience from time to time (e.g. the mythical 'range anxiety' = running out of gas on a back road).

I've had people give me long lectures about the un-usability of EVs while I have driven them across the city, errands, and back on purely electric power in my PHEV.

lol uh you think backup companies only have your data only in one place? This would be like you thinking your favorite pizza place doesn't know what a tomato is

Go learn about raid or something

That's not what's happening. That's never what happens. Any time someone uses an ai chat bot as part of their work, they immediately turn into drooling idiots.

Yeah, who needs a chatbot when you can make unqualified claims as statements of fact. You don't even need citations, such as the ones you're claiming (without citation) they make up. (Which just to be clear, they do, a certain amount, although a casual interpretation of your words suggests you're implying "always".)

Look, there are lots of problems with LLMs, but I find it amusing to watch people launch into "what I say is true, because I said it, and it sounds true to me" when talking about LLMs being sources of inaccurate information.

One of the most fascinating aspects of H2O is the sheer number of forms it can take under different conditions.

Do I think 20% of 7% of their trade surplus is a massive blow to their economy? No, I don't, because I can do basic math. The rest of your post is full of the same dumb shit you cusco of, although nobody can accuse you of not being a team player. Enjoy the ride, I guess.

China’s energy advantage is huge. All the big tech companies propping up the US stock market need more data centers. Data centers use massive amounts of energy. The US cannot provide that energy. The government won’t let anybody add large scale solar or wind projects. There is a years long wait for the turbines needed in natural gas plants. Nobody even knows how long it will take to build a new nuclear plant in the USA because it hasn’t been done in decades. This means that all those AI companies that need more data centers, all the cloud hosting companies, the social media companies, they’re all going to be unable to grow quickly in the near future because the US cannot provide power. But China has excess capacity, has been bringing new nuclear plants online every eight months for the last decade, will soon be deploying small nuclear reactors that are still years away in the US, and is deploying huge solar projects at a rapid pace. And Chinese companies are even building nuclear plants in other countries. This will allow Chinese tech companies to dominate AI, and other internet services, in all of the BRICS countries, the entire global south, and probably even Europe at some point. By the time the US tech industry finally has the power it needs China will be so far ahead that American business will never catch up.

"This is Chinese propaganda"

Do a quick self-learn. The amount of solar panels China was selling to the US before exports was only around 20% of their total solar module exports. Their total solar exports are only about 7% of their total intl trade surplus. They sell as much capacity to Europe in a year as the US has installed *total, nationally*.

I'm not arguing they don't care about loss of business to the US, obviously it impacts them.

But watching the US self-elect to fall farther behind, checking of boxes down a veritable "how to" list of losing US hegemony is far more valuable to them.

In that sense - maybe it is propaganda, but reverse psychology style, because you're doing the lord's work for them.