The used EV market here has just vanished. There’s almost nothing for sale and prices are almost at new car levels for decade old EVs.

I personally would like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.

I read the first line or so and my brain says, “Yep, that’s another Trump ramble.” and discards it.

It helps that Trump’s narrative is incoherent, changes daily and is an ALL CAPS WALL OF RAMBLING TEXT. It’s hard to say how Iran’s narrative would stack up against a competent administration.

They aren’t idle, they’re just being loaded and unloaded or sitting in traffic instead of doing 110 on the freeway.

You don’t have to electrify everything on day one, though. A lot of trucks are probably doing less than 100km a day, with a lot of stop/start and idling which wastes a lot of diesel but an electric truck won’t care about.

There’s a lot of low hanging fruit to pick before we start worrying about regional road trains in off-grid areas.

This. For a freight truck, those 75 kW chargers are basically trickle chargers. They want 400 kW to put on a decent amount of charge during a half hour break. Their charging needs are a whole other level.

IIRC some of them don’t even come with onboard AC chargers, since even 43 kW AC would take 20 hours to charge them up anyway so most fleets aren’t going to do that.

Military recruiters:

“Make America great again!”

“You mean like it was when billionaires had a 90% tax rate?”

“No, not like that!”

Hungary and Slovakia used to cover for each other. That doesn’t work without one of them.

Sure, driving to work in a city in an SUV is perfectly sensible, there’s no other way.

Probably not - we’re already shipping sodium batteries and there’s a good chance they’ll take the entire stationary storage market.

To be fair, those cars with huge windows and great visibility handled rollover accidents by crushing the heads and necks of everyone in them.

Everyone driving SUVs to get to the office is dumb, but we don’t want to go back to the days where the passenger cabin is the primary crumple zone either.

The Reddit hivemind is a bit like AI, now that I think about it.

They’ll give you a confident, reasonable sounding answer. Any accuracy will be completely accidental.

Just throw them over one shoulder to keep them from getting tangled in the pedals.

Probably the “stealing cables from EV chargers” thing has made the rounds amongst the cooker dipshit community and our hero wouldn’t know a kilowatt if it bit him, so he thinks there’s good money in that cable.

It looks like a short cable, so it probably contains the same amount of copper as a $25 extension cord from Bunnings.

You can’t buy a used EV for under like $25,000 now and those are ten year old Leafs. Nobody’s selling.

If you want apples to apples, you’re probably looking at a BYD Dolphin for closer to $32,000.

You can tell that they’re good cars for a good price by the way the US and EU car industries have been screaming for government protection the last few years.

If you’re deadset against buying a Chinese branded EV, I guess you can wait for the Toyota branded EVs with BYD drivetrains that are on their way.

The best part is that’s probably $5 worth of copper. That’s an AC charger, not one of the big boi DC chargers with a 400 amp cable.

I mean, you can buy a BYD Atto 1 for $27k and the cheapest new Toyota I can see is $33k.

All the cars currently on the road can’t just be thrown away and replaced with EVs, but new EVs have actually hit and passed price parity now.

In this accident I’m sure Autopilot disengaged half a second before the crash, that somehow proves it wasn’t Autopilot’s fault.