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I've said it a lot before, if we're going to do EVs, we need to reconceptualize what a vehicle can be. Trying to replace our internal combustion with a primitive simulation isn't going to help.

Tomorrow we could have governments pass laws to make it easy to build, sell, own, and drive tiny city cars with a limited range and speed that could be manufactured right now and sold for less than $5,000 and could charge on a standard 120v receptacle. If this was the pressing emergency people are pretending it was, it could reduce transportation energy requirements massively, and quickly. Instead the same people claiming we're in a crisis and need to eat bugs and live in pods will claim we couldn't possibly allow these things that might actually make people's lives better, because it was never about anything they claim it's about.

Have you been to a dealership lately? At the rate we're going the choice won't be between a limited range car and a full size vehicle, it'll be between a limited range car and walking.

An f'in minivan is 70 grand. That's nuts.

I'd like an inexpensive city runner that I don't need to insure, don't need to spend much money maintaining, and can do my normal errands in all kinds of weather, but also a full size car for whatever I need a long distance people hauler for. For most tasks I just need something that'll get me a few blocks away to the store, and I've got the option to take the big guy if I want.

I also own more than one wrench, not just a crescent wrench that'll do everything but also a box wrench set.