That just means vehicles for passengers, i.e. not farm equipment. Yes it is relevant.

Focusing on the exact words you use:

1. 1 in 10 new cars, but almost 50% of those will be going back from battery to combustion, so think 0.5 in 10.
2. This 0.5 in 10 is driven largely by places with heavy subsidies in regulations that are all going away
3. Your 155 mile range is a huge overstatement, you're lucky to get 60% of the stated range in an EV, especially in winter. I do actually get 950 miles on my BMW 520D
4. Finland is a prime example where the subsidies for both the vehicle and charging are insanely high, so high that it would be crazy not to get an EV. Even there, most EVs are purchased as a secondary vehicle as they cannot replace the primary vehicle.
5. What did I say that is a falsehood? - provide evidence to the contrary. The last PM of the UK said a few months ago that the UK share of vehicles that are EVs is 2.7% and this is a developed western nation, is it higher in Africa? - what do you think the global number of vehicles globally are EVs? - this is after 20 years of heavy subsidies and incentives too.
6. OK, correction, around 50% of the population have no mechanism to charge at home in London - this absolutely stops widespread adoption as public charging costs around 2-3x higher per mile than diesel.
7. What detour to the petrol station? - I drive past multiple petrol stations on every single journey, there is no detour. I times myself 3 minutes. Average for all cars may be higher as they use this as an opportunity to maybe buy some groceries too. Not sure how 8 minutes average vs 1 hour average helps your point.
8. Aha, if you stop at a hotel without a charger after a couple hours of driving, then you need to set an early alarm to drive to some supercharger somewhere and hang around for 45 minutes, then drive back before the family wake up? - fun times :) - I have some friends that bought battery cars and stories like this are funny. I bet it's less funny to live it.
9. Discharging a battery under 20% damages it, going under 10% will drop that expected lifespan to under 8 years - similarly as charging above 90% - plus the computer will kick in if you do that too often and limit the charge speeds at the most inopportune moments (also hilarious stories of friends sleeping at charge stations while it slow charges0. Plus of course 10% in my rather common saloon car gives me around 100 miles of range, in an EV that could be your total range in winter with multiple stops. So it's like driving permanently with your low fuel light on, even when you're charged to 80%, no thank you :)

Honestly you sound bitter, I bet you weren't so bitter before you got these handcuffs you call an EV. Get rid of it, enjoy the open road, enjoy the freedom, like half of the other battery car owners going back to combustion :)

Everything you said is nonsense. You are just blind to the facts:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/elect...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You're missing the point, say you want to drive to the seaside on a weekend, or visit family, or friends in the next town down, or there's some kind of emergency. So an EV is great for 90% of the time, but 10% of the time it falls spectacularly. The issue is often the cost of adding a second vehicle is just not justifiable. Think of it another way, imagine a fridge that once a month switches off and fills your house up with the stench of rotting food, that's an EV :)

Totally, the problem is with lack of physical space to park, insurance, road tax, depreciation, etc even at $25k, having a second vehicle is out of reach for the majority of car owners, at least in the UK. But I agree, these are not suitable as a primary car, but they are suitable as a secondary car for short city journeys. The other problem is in most of Europe, the cities are just not suited for cars, so a car is used for longer out of town / rural journeys with limited charging infrastructure and in the city you use public transport.

The youtube link didn't post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also, it was the democrats that were non stop talking about egg prices on the news cycle, that's why nobody takes you democrats seriously.

What doesn't function on the website? - Is this one better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Nobody said anything about magic, watch this video, it will explain how tariffs work. Nobody said it will work over night either.

Also it depends on what the supply chain is for. For silicon, no, those efforts started under the democrats and will continue under the republicans but it will take many more years. For steel? - it's a lot quicker and more straightforward. Aluminium too.

- The GDP of the US is not so heavily reliant on trade as much as the world relies on the US, so no, it will not wreck your GDP.
- It is necessary to piss off your authoritarian allies that have completely lost their minds in Europe, with insane demographic shifts, open borders, no investment in security, etc. Things need to change there soon, it's a total shit show. You won't piss them off enough to ally themselves with China, but you will nudge them back to some kind of sanity and it's working, defence spending is already up.
- I don't see the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, or any of other Iran's proxies with any kind of boners. They did have one when Biden unfroze $30b to Iran after learning Trump has won the election...

The democrats had post COVID growth, which was following the trend line, but outperforming the G7, this growth slowed down significantly in 2024. But sure, I'll give you that, but they have also just completely lost all grip on reality, with defund the police, kneeling for George Floyd, enabling of Hamas support, DEI, identity politics, everything is racism / white supremacy, ridiculous pronouncements such as taxing unrealised gains, etc, etc, etc.

The US has more influence than ever and the fastest growing economy in the G7 by a LONG margin. I really wouldn't worry about that, and what is the world going to do, switch to BRICS? - no. Also, what benefit does the US get really with the dollar being the reserve currency? - it's very costly for little gain. Not to mention isolationism was just as prevalent with the democrats, it's not just a republicans thing.

But let's see what they've done:

1. Bold new strategy to bring peace in the middle east, certainly a shift from 70 years of perpetual war
2. End DEI, pretty much globally
3. End the gender lunacy
4. End fixation of identity politics in the US
5. End Net0 lunacy, pretty much globally
6. Remove the crazy carbon subsidies
7. Force European countries to start taking their borders and security seriously
8. Fighting for free speech globally, the EU is becoming very authoritarian
9. Transparency in government, for better or worse, all invoices publicly visible on the website
10. Trying to restore democracy to the UK. The UK is intimidating and imprisoning citizens for Facebook posts at rates that would make the Kremlin blush
11. There’s huge excitement and optimism in the US, it’s a shining beacon for any young driven smart person, I’d move there if I was younger!
12. Onshore manufacturing (Biden started this to be fair), being ready for the war with China
13. End pro-Hamas administrations and antisemitism in ivy league institutions (Harvard settled the antisemitism suit the same week he was elected!)
14. GOGE is a shining example for a lot of governments of what they should and shouldn’t be funding, $150b saved and counting. Javier Milei is also a shining beacon of how to do things.
15. Just cultural wins, ending the woke mind virus, the self deprecating hatred of anything that is western culture.
16. Defunding the UNWRA terror organisation.
17. Re-instate sanctions on Iran
18. Pushing back the Houthis to improve global shipping
19. Many little things like not funding terror groups or paying rappers in Gaza to write antisemitic music
20. At least trying to change the meat grinder in Ukraine that Biden encouraged with his disastrous pull out of Afghanistan and severe restrictions on how aid/weapons can be used

etc, etc, etc, etc

The democrats have just completely lost all grip on reality, with defund the police, kneeling for George Floyd (a criminal home invader that stood by as his friend held a gun to a pregnant mother's stomach), enabling of Hamas support, DEI, identity politics, everything is racism / white supremacy, ridiculous pronouncements such as taxing unrealised gains, etc, etc ,etc. They've achieved nothing other than indirectly cause wars and use lawfare against their political opponents. The republicans have achieved more in a week than the democrats achieved in 4 years.

Sure, trade has no impact on GDP, sorry, you're right - you must be one of those intelligent Kamala voters. Do you also keep things in a cloud above you? - or drink wine all day long out of a sippy cup?

And no, that's not that massive, it's significant but it would be truly catastrophic for the UK, EU, Australia, etc. In any case nobody is talking about actually cutting trade with the rest of the world. "Going to go" as in who are these countries going to create better alliances with instead of the US, it's nothing to do with political parties.

The policies are actually designed to address exactly the problems you are listing: https://x.com/ericabbenante/st...

I wouldn't go that far, but they are a lot more effective than the previous administration, this is true.

2015 called and wants their news stories back :) - We get this kind of nonsense every year for a decade now, yes, in 3 years, we promise this time, $25k. I'll believe it when I see it. So far EVs are on the decline if anything, world wide adoption is something like 2.7% and depending on the surveys 40-60% of owners will be going back to a regular car, and those are the early adopters brave enough to live with this. Sure it's ideal for some use cases, but usually as a second or third car.

7% of US's GDP comes from the whole world. They can lose the world and barely feel it. The world needs the US a lot more than the US needs them. The republicans know this and act as such. Where are the rest of us going to go? China? North Korea? - of course not, they'll just get in line. This is a Brit speaking that isn't happy about this, but it's the reality.

Yep, egg prices just fell by 25%