In your case it would make much more sense to just have an efficient gas vehicle. PHEVs cost essentially the same as EVs. You'll never make that cost delta up in fuel savings.

EVs make sense (for those with the appropriate drive profile) because they move you to a whole new paradigm where the design of a car can be fundamentally re-thought.

PHEVs cost EV prices, but come with all the baggage and maintenance requirements of legacy ICE design. If EVs don't work for your situation, the rational answer is a good gas car.

I honestly don't understand why anyone buys a PHEV. They cost as much as a similarly trimmed EV, but you still have to do oil changes, coolant top ups, etc etc. It's the worst of both worlds.

Well, I DO get it - people have range anxiety. But it's irrational.

The problem is, people aren't rational and the news loves to sensationalize things that are new. Case in point right now is EV fires. Every EV fire is a newsworthy event, and I've often heard acquaintenances dismiss EVs as "fire traps", completely ignoring the fact that gas cars frequently catch fire.

Auto deaths happen in abundance every day, yet barely merit a news story. But the first time a Waymo kills someone you can bet it will be national front page news, and it's all anyone will talk about.

My Equinox EV has 500 km of range. I don't think my ability to "just go for a long drive" is in any sort of danger...

Physics and economics disagree. Power harvested increases by the square of blade length (since swept area = Pi*r^2). If you double the blade length you get four times the power output. Economically (and environmentally and aesthetically) it makes more sense to build one bigger turine instead of four smaller ones. That means only one concrete base, one tower, one nacelle to maintain, and more flexibility in siting the turbine.

I recently noticed in one of my groups that there was a poster that would post questions veaguely related to the group, but not really accurately relevant to what was going on. When I looked into it more, I realized that the poster was a "Group AI" - essentially a bot whose job is to post questions to drive engagement. BLECH.

We really are going to end up with the Dead Internet Theory and an AI Ouroboros. Facebook bots posing questions, which well invariably end up getting answered by other bots, which will feed into the next round of AI training data. I can't decide if I'm lucky enough to have at least experienced the golden age of the internet, or unfortunate enough to know what the internet could be...

Seems like part of the problem this year was that the winds hit part way through build, so many of the structures hadn't been properly secured yet. That being said, I'm sure there were a bunch of unprepared people too...

As as Canadian, this is absolute bull. Most Canadians do not drive down to the US a few times a year.

So? This is News for Nerds. When did we get so grumpy? When did we get so jaded? When did pushing tech to its limits become looked down on?

The world needs more engineers and tinkerers doing crazy shit just because they can.

Morons who have been backed into a corner also tend to do stupid shit. It is not in our interest to have a bunch of idiots with nothing left to lose running around.

While that's absolutely true, it will also change over time. New builds are starting to include EV chargers, and retrofits are also happening. Even in buildings that will never be retrofitted, it may still be possible for people to go EV as the wider charging network improves. My sister lives in Vancouver, BC and has an EV in a building with no chargers. It works out fine for her because the public charging infrastructure in that city is widespread enough that "filling up" when she gets groceries, etc. is more than enough.

These live action remakes are a copyright renewal play and nothing else. Disney doesn't care if the movie itself makes money.

Could also be useful for transport trucks.

So what you're saying is there's a lot of potential for things to get soooooo much worse when the rest of that ice melts?

Ford has the E-Transit and I'm starting to see them around a fair bit.