Can even be charged on a standard plug.

I've had my EV seven years. I've only ever charged it on a "standard plug."

It typically adds ~80km overnight, which is more than enough based on our driving profile.

Additionally, there were not many used EVs on the market to begin with

The other consideration is people aren't switching up their EVs. The first-generation EVs definitely had problems (Nissan Leaf, Kia Soul etc.) but the second generation cars are well designed.

My 2nd-gen EV just hit the 7-year mark. It is still running as well as when I drove off the lot, with next-to-no battery degradation. So I have ne need or desire to trade it in.

Its a low density, premium heavy cabin precisely because thats what the route demands

When you say "what the route demands" I'm not sure if you're referencing physics, customers, or both.

...because in order to operate a route of this distance, physics dictates that the aircraft has to have less mass - Fewer passengers and fewer bags in the hold. Hence the lower-density configuration. If they made the density higher the plane would be too heavy to manage the route, even with its special design.

It's true that even when you adjust for inflation, a movie ticket is more expensive than the good ol' days.

...but it's also true that the experience is so much better. The stadium seats. The sound. The legroom. (Sure, there are jackasses talking and texting but I tend to be able to choose movies & theaters were there are far fewer of them.)

What's also different is I don't have to go to the movie theater to see a movie as much as I did in the good ol' days. Back then my only options were to pay for a ticket or wait for 12-18 months to rent a VHS tape and watch it on 23" TV or watch it edited & with commercials on the ABC Sunday Night Movie.

(Yeah, I know, HBO was in there somewhere, but I didn't have HBO...)

Movies like Sinners, War of the Worlds, Downton Abbey, Nuremberg etc. etc. etc. I can just watch at home with great picture & sound for free or a fraction of the cost of what I would have paid at the theater. So that more than makes up for the cost when I pay to see The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX.

Science is done by humans, who have bias. It is reviewed by humans, who have bias.

You yourself just broke whatever convoluted point you were trying to make.

It is the very review of scientific work by other scientists that weeds out the bias you allege.

Recent scientific research has demonstrated that the widespread HPV vaccinations have dramatically reduced the instances of cervical cancer - In some cases down to zero.

Those researchers might have had bias (I am not saying they did), but the review of the research by many other independent scientists have shown that the conclusions are sound at that the HPV vaccine rollout has been remarkably effective.

tariffs against violating countries

Goddamit. Trump has been President for 17 months and people still don't seem to understand that a tariff is a tax paid by Americans.

If the scammers are in Bulgaria and an American company is buying specialized industrial equipment from Bulgaria, then that American company pays the tariff. You are in effect punishing that American company because of scammers in Bulgaria.

For every one of you who thrives on these games there are two people who find it deeply tiresome and just want market forces and competition to set a competitive price which allows people to just walk into a dealership (or a website) and buy the car they want.

I suspect both models will exist for some time to come.

Of course, the main alternative is to pay big bucks for cable, and *still* see nonstop ads.

My elderly dad has a "dumb" TV and he wanted to watch some streaming content (BritBox & The Knowledge Network) so I got him the Roku. Installing the streamers' apps on the device is pretty straightforward.

He still has cable TV for things like the local news.

I am GenX so I still have cable TV as well, but I just PVR something like SNL and just press [Skip] [Skip] [Skip] [Skip] when the ads come on. I don't watch Sportsball so that doesn't affect me.

Most referenced is Star Trek from the 1960s. how much of that is real now in some form or another?

Tablet computers, voice interfaces to computers... What else, exactly?

Roku lost me when they became an advertising company.

I bought my elderly dad a Roku stick a couple of Christmases ago. It was under thirty bucks, and to my surprise it included a massive amount of free content and channels.

With them practically giving away the hardware + content like that I don't know how they could be anything but an advertising company and still stay afloat.

All of the above, plus billions of dollars that could flow into the economy from building, assembling and maintaining green-energy infrastructures around the world. All the good-paying manufacturing and service jobs that Trump is always bleating about.

But no. Republicans and their voters have decided the future is determined by the 44,000 people mining coal in the USA - 26,000 fewer than will sit in SoFi Stadium on Valentine's Day to watch the next Super Bowl.

Next week I will have had my EV for seven years.

I have never charged at home via an "L2" 240v charger. I've always just used a regular plug in the wall.

115 volts at 12 amps is around 1,400 watts - 1.4kW.

If I plug my car in at home for 10 hours that adds 14 kWh. 12 hours is 16.8 kWh.

Energy use depends on highway vs city, temperatures etc. but right now I get around 4 miles/kWh (I'm Canadian, but I've converted to freedom units for you Americans.)

So that means I add around 60 miles every night just on a regular outlet.

The same MAGAts who scream about SOCIALISM would be the first to loudly embrace this idea.

yeah if you make things affordable more people buy them.

Part of the challenge until recently has been that all the market research performed by EV manufacturers in North America has returned the same data point: Potential customers are obsessed with range.

People with a 20-mile daily commute insist that they need an EV with 600 miles of range or they won't even consider it. They claim they need to be able to drive 800 miles nonstop to Grandma's house twice a year, and if they can't do that EVs are useless to them.

Hell, the common refrain from EV haters on /. is "I have a 300-mile daily commute, therefore EVs are impractical for everyone".

When someone asks me about my EV the first question is not about how it drives, or the economy - It is "What is the range?"

The battery is generally the most expensive component in an EV, so in order to deliver what the market is telling them (big range), EV manufacturers generally only offered expensive cars.

As the North American market has gradually re-calibrated to be somewhat less obsessed with range (and the costs of battery technology have declined), manufacturers have started to risk offering more affordable options (with less range) into the market. And people are finally buying them.

Give free money for people to sit around and smoke pot all day.

There are around 50M retired people in the USA at the moment. Of course some of them are impoverished, so let's for the sake of argument say that 75%-ish are not.

So that's 38M retired people.

Do they sit around and smoke pot all day?