Actually, yes, Growth, at least, is bad for the environment. The environmental cost has always marched alongside economic growth. Pollution, for instance, isn't a side effect of growth. II's a facilitator. The path to environmental balance is massive recession. You don't have to go back to candles and horses, but you probably have to give up 500 watt video cards whose only contribution to society is pretty graphics.

Do 70% of people never use the pickup box or do 100% of people with a pickup not use them 70% of the time. The former means the that they are wasting the purchase of a pickup but the latter means they aren't. In either case you would see the box empty 70% of the time. I know I don't have a pickup but if I did have one I would use it as a pickup. For example my kid just moved out and needed a couch.

Nuclear is absolutely not fossil in any sense of that word, don't demonstrate your ignorance.

Quite the opposite, the (fast neutron) nuclear fission technology is the only one currently available that gives you the potential option to generate more fuel from the side effects of "burning" your current supply.

Please stop with this fallacy. Most drives are under 30 miles. There is no data on how many people never drive more than 30 miles.

Except EV ranges can go down 40% at highway speeds...

Too little, too slow. Trying to promote things like insulation standards and massive public transportation upgrades won't move the needle quickly enough to deal with the crisis. We would have to start in the 1950s. And the affluent will be unmoved, since they can absorb the uptick in energy costs. We can't "suggest" our way out of this.

The scalpel is no longer enough. Time for the sledgehammer.

Increase the capacity of transit, but not the quality, and ration gasoline mercilessly. Ban trivial uses of AI - no more generating 500 versions of an album cover because it's free. Put a halt to new data centers, and put a bullet in nvidia. And so on. Starve the supply side as well as the demand. Pay the large societal cost of that. And it will hurt. A lot. This would work... but...

Understand that I think these things will not happen. I think we're screwed, and we'll pay the price through mitigation, not prevention.

I don't have a better answer. I just think what you are suggesting wouldn't accomplish enough to matter.

Better than long stretches of howling wind and snow.

Except most technology is a convenience. If you buy the fanciest new laptop and it doesn't play the games you want at full resolution, that's ok. If you buy a car and it doesn't do what you need it to, you're screwed. You have to sell it and get something else which means an insane amount of depreciation and a huge headache.

So how many people in the area will be fighting for a lamp post? Or are there lamp posts for everyone?

I want to double this. So many EV proponents want to lie about their experiences and that isn't helping either.

Do any of those have the passenger and cargo space of similarly priced ICEs?

They explained the PHEV thing in the article. They are only 19% in real world use because people don't charge them and go on gas only. It's kind of funny because EV proponents say charging is so easy and all..

What's worrying is that they all seem to have stalled when it comes to things people really care about - better cameras, better batteries. Google is the same, the Pixel line used to be about the best cameras in the industry, but the last few years they have stalled with only marginal improvements.

Only the Chinese brands seem to be innovating now, with massive camera sensors and better optics, and new battery chemistry to fit more energy into the same space.

Cheap EVs can drive for 4-5 hours before needing a short stop to charge. Before I bought my current one I looked at some potential journeys, like a 9 hour one from one end of the country to the other. It would need 2x 10 minute and 1x 20 minute stops.

Or rather, the car needs fewer comfort breaks than I do. The battery can outlast my bladder.

Outside of some very niche situations, there really is little point to PHEVs. You get all the disadvantages of a fossil, and the smaller battery limits the benefits you get from the EV side. They aren't even any cheaper to make up for it.

They do that in the UK too. It's been over-hyped, as with most stories about China.

I bought my last car "pre reg", meaning that the dealer bought it and registered the car in their name, and I bought it "second hand" with only a few kilometres on the clock. And when I got it, the dealer hadn't even bothered to register it to themselves, so I am the first and only owner.

It's just the way they discount new cars to fudge the numbers, very very common here. They can shift sales into different months, deal with over-stocking issues at storage locations, that kind of thing. Like all retail businesses, sometimes they need the throughput, sometimes they need the higher margin.