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And they come in pink!

But all the Epstein defenders talked about how “drill baby drill” was supposed to like fix the economy or some shit?

are there any good men left out there?

Meanwhile we have a Luddite President anchored to his 1950s vision of the world, and beholden to legacy oil and gas corporations

The US auto industry is going to be suffering a new import crisis, just like the 70s and 80s.

China's EV industry is going to conquer the world. After turning ICEs into niche products in China, Chinese EV manufacturers are going to drive Detroit, Japan & Germany out of Africa, Latin America & most of Asia. Good news for the planet. Bad news for Putin & the House of Saud.

And Republicans just gutted the Green New Deal, clean energy & environmental initiatives via budget reconciliation, & propped fossil fuels. Elections have consequences. This was preventable with a vote November 2024.

I want to drive one of those inexpensive EV vehicles.

I was trying to figure out what immigration had to do with this. Then I realized you meant something else by ICE.

"The policy is to Make America Great Again simply by repeating this statement constantly and believing it deeply."

I know a lot of EV drivers and none of us can imagine going back to an oil burner anymore than we can imagine getting groceries in a horse and buggy. 🤣

Have been driving an EV since January and I‘m never going back

Norway shows it isn't inevitable and is an active choice of public policy, but the US turning into an oil exporter does shuffle things up. We got a bunch of rentiers who would lose from electrification.

Ah yes. The infallible capitalist market. Famously known for never influencing poor policy decisions.

I agree with all this. I just think Toyota is such a juggernaut in terms of US car sales that pretty much what they say, goes. If I walk outside right now in Brooklyn the only sedans I'm going to see are going to be Camrys - most of which are hybrids.

And they would have been a perfect option for the last 5 years or so until we had developed a more comprehensive charging network and larger capacity batteries.

I have an ICE like most people - but I don't drive to work daily. I would absolutely love more options and infrastructure for EVs. Even though I have the option to take transit, many people don't and are forced to use ICE cars because that's what our infrastructure supports. We badly botched this!

This car is just begging for graffiti

The US is being left in the dust thanks to Trump and his Dark Ages policies on energy.

This really is it. Most Americans live in metro areas Most Americans drive <50 miles a day Most Americans drive <250 miles on road trips Most new vehicle buyers are home owners For most Americans, today's EVs work, and are a better option in terms of TCO and their Kid's health!

I feel like even when EVs make up almost all cars on the road if apartments just have 60-70% parking spots have chargers that would be plenty. Most people could go multiple days, maybe weeks without charging.

I think there's a big asterisk there in that cars in general aren't common in colder rural China relative to those areas in the US. That's where the use case for ICEs is going to continue. Pluralistic vehicle energy style makes more sense to me until charging infrastructure reaches the boonies.

California’s serious about the transition to cleaner healthier forms of vehicle transport 😊

abolish ICE

Is that why Ford and GM sell Chinese cars to Americans? Walk me through this.

Why are Americans soooo stupid?

If you have the characters, I’d go with internal combustion engine there.

Yeah and vinyl was dead in 1996

I held out years for Rivian Max Pack battery 410 mile range, and is likely not in top ten now. Love the vehicle and range works well.

Can you imagine ICE rolling up and spilling out of a cute pink EV like a bunch of clowns?

I am by no means an ICE advocate, but EV have their problems too. A $10 seal fails in a 2023 Audi EV that separates e-motor coolant from the gear oil in the differential - but since the labour to get to it is insane, the whole assembly is unfortunately scrap. 😦 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rquP...

And they’ll be BYD, not American.