except that up until now I have just been trying to get through to you what 'productiom' means. Not one comment has had anything to do with production but rather distribution. And yeah, before Amazon there weren't all kinds of trucks driving to deliver a box with a fishhook in it so any EVs they use on that side are just preventing them from adding more pollution.

If it needs to charge for an hour, that is an hour that a vehicle I paid for is unavailable to me. I'm not interested in a vehicle that can only be used 3/5 of the time

Appreciate that people have different things that happen in their lives than you do. It just amazes me that people who proport to care about the environment don't want to solve the very real problems that are causing people to be hesitant. I didn't expect to be fully driving across Canada win my current vehicle but that's the way my life went. It seems that an EV is for people who plan well and/or never really have life changes and have a place to charge.

That is the inevitable result of capitalism. If employees are being "paid well" to make goods then they inevitably make those goods too expensive to sell realistically. It has been said over and over that the only end game to tariffs is for Americans to be paying more for everything while the rest of the world pays less, because you have isolated yourselves from the cheap labor that makes reasonable prices possible.

So now the shipping company needs to pay for battery depos in every nation basically. Have you factored in those monster battery depos as part of "affordability"?

And how does the shipment get from the ship to the warehouse? Amazon uses their EVs to pick it up? Let's put it this way.. is Amazon banning all fossil fuel vehicles for delivery into their warehouses now?

An existing power socket means your car is charging for hours a week. What if you actually want to use the car during those hours? I don't want to have to perform the calculations required to know if a normal outlet is sufficient or will it leave you high and dry in an emergency?

You cannot charge your car on 120v while you sleep unless you sleep for 11 hours... Or unless you have a very short commute and very little use during the day, in which case your gas would have cost little anyway and it's silly for you to buy an EV. This isn't about headlights. Say you deplete your battery 75% during the day running errands and such and you come home and plug into your 120v outlet. Then you have a hankering for subway for late supper or you realize you are out of toilet paper. Will you now have the freedom to drive back into the city and remedy that? Who knows. With a gas car you just go.

Not if they will end up too expensive for most to afford.

So I will ask you too.. how are pineapples shipped from Costa Rica without fossil fuels?

It doesn't stop you now. Clearly it is stopping a lot of people because sales are slowing down.

So when they grow pineapples in Costa Rica? Amazon is sending EV trucks to pick up the shipment? Do you know how rediculous you sound? Whole foods is not a producer.

When in the history of the world has that happened. Did people pay $5k for an Apple ][+ because it was worse than their calculator?

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Amazon doesn't produce the food. Nor are they delivering anything perishable, never mind cold chain.