This is a delaying action by Toyota until they can get solid state batteries ready for production. Companies don’t want to exhaust the US government tax credit by selling too many EVs until they ar ready.

Unless the world's population goes back to crowding as close as possible in cities again, the hub and spoke model of transportation will not succeed. And there is no transportation method, besides maybe a Zeppelin or a cruise ship, that is more hub-and-spoke based than a railroad. I love trains and will continue to ride them-- for fun. The auto train to Florida is also very useful. The dedicated lines and heavily populated Northeast corridor are as good as it will ever get in the US in terms of financially sustainable operations. Almost every other Amtrak line is sustained by politics, not economics.

I was picturing John Wayne and the rest of the ill-fated uranium-exposed cast of the 1956 Genghis Khan biopic bomb “The Conqueror”

I really hate when my kids drag me out to the Marvel movies. They're all the same-- combine expensive CGI with a few deadpan catchphrases and pseudo-operatic music. Nobody involved in these movies is taking a risk. Filmmakers in the 1970s used to go for a make-or-break journey and take the viewer along with them. Now it gets more and more rare.

It's depressing to read all the comments from fellow liberals that re-direct outrage about this back at the US, which offers First Amendment freedoms for its citizens and asylum for religious dissidents. This guy is having his back ripped open for a right Americans take for granted. I am not religious, but if liberals want to, for example, attend an art show that has a dung-covered madonna, they will loudly fight for the right to do so. Yet they sheepishly cannot even muster the moral clarity to defend a fellow liberal who is getting his back ripped open for doing the same.