I wonder if this is being aimed at a replacement for the ubiquitous bocho, or original VW bug, that still dominates the intracity car fleets of the many smaller cities and towns in the mountains Central region. If it’s rear wheel drive that’s my guess, those things only ever go on nigh-vertical narrow cobblestone roads in dense urban environments so low range and slow speeds won’t matter at all.

He got it wrong, a lot of them like them in between as long as they’re on an island waiting for them.

It’s almost 20 cm shorter than a gen-1 bolt EV, which I agree is too tall. This is fine though, it’s roughly the size of a mid 2010s midsize sedan in all dimensions.

Curious why that year? You have to go much older to predate any surveillance tech. Like some cars in the 90s had GPSs embedded, not sure when the ability to offload data arose but no later than 2007 in OnStar equiped vehicles.

I’ve never used a Tesla charger, my car can’t without an adapter. But the commenter made a claim about super chargers, Tesla’s proprietary charging network, specifically and it sounded like the info came from a PR promise Tesla made that isn’t true in a practical sense.

I’ve had no problems charging my car on road trips, but it has mostly been in e.g. Ford dealerships outside of towns with nothing to do but sit in my car.

I don’t know where you’re getting that info, but I just checked google maps for my city and it isn’t true. There is one single Tesla supercharger location, outside a coffee shop in the parking lot of a Walmart. The nearest gas station is 1.8 miles by car, .4 miles walking (lots of one way streets).

I guess maybe my city is too small on a technicality? The 2020 census put us at 98k people, with 175k in the urban area.

The nearest big city has a population of 299k (metro 800k) and apparently has two total superchargers near gas stations, though one is literally on the city line, so whoever is making that claim is operating entirely in lawyer speak and not how most people would understand that claim.

I live in a moderately sizes city >100k people within 30 miles of two bigger cities and no gas stations have chargers in town. There are chargers, but they’re in weird places like by the movie theater or tucked behind a brewery.

Annectodal, but whatever acceleration curve Toyota uses in its hybrids makes me sick so quickly. I haven’t had many problems in Chevy PHEVs or EVs, teslas, or Kia EVs, but I do often get motion sick in ICE vehicles. Not as badly as Toyota hybrids though.

Neither honda nor VW sell EV hatchbacks or any vehicle under $40k in the US. As far as I know, only the Nissan leaf, Chevy bolt, and Kia niro are under $35k, and they’re all over $30k now. There are some used options, but very few under $20k that are in good condition with acceptable range for most Americans.

Had a 2012 volt for 3-4 years that I bought in 2021. It was a fantastic car in many ways but if anything went wrong it was awful trying to find anyone to work on it and many repairs were obscenely expensive to do at the shop. I ended up resetting a battery module, replacing a radiator, and reattaching a bumper myself, and all three were way more of a pain than they needed to be.

I believe they’ve actually added noise components to the driving axle so it’s a mechanically produced sound even, which is pretty cool imo.

Supernote has two sizes, I use the smaller one as an e reader successfully. About the height and width of a largish novel, but much thinner, and it runs a very open android fork that lets you treat it as a USB, along with various cloud sync options including self hosting. It’s primarily geared towards writing, but it natively supports kindle app for library books and is pretty easy to side load other apps onto. My one big caveat is that it isn’t backlit which makes night reading a pain, but some random person on reddit just started selling a light that clips directly into the pogo pins on that back and it works pretty well, though it’s annoying that it isn’t directly integrated so it’s another thing to keep track of

Regardless of the actual amount of guns one sees around and in desks, one thing I think is particularly relevant is how many guns are in American media. I’ve never personally seen a desk gun in the USA, though I do see a fair amount of holstered guns in public, but so many TV shows, movies, and even advertisements have random guns popping up even if it’s not thematically relevant or appropriate.

I guarantee it’ll be badly coded and introduce vulnerabilities, which for government phones could be national security threats

Just read this for the first time a couple months ago, immediately followed by the sequel Year of the Flood. Haven’t gotten round to finishing the trilogy yet. I’m interested in your thoughts once you finish!

Kind of scattered these past few weeks, so I’m about halfway through Murakami’s After the Quake, on story two of Three by Tey, and on the first fifth of Terry Pratchett’s The Truth

They have physical buttons for just about everything you regularly need to do. Otherwise yeah they’re fully connected and have all the sensors for tracking

I think for most Americans Biden’s economy was not great, though at least it was headed in the right direction. And in fairness to him he was handed a bungled COVID economy, so it was a lot to recover from.

The registration fees in your link are all annual registrations, not one-time events, which is in line with what I’ve experienced and heard about. In my state it’s roughly equivalent to driving 15k miles/year in a 30 mpg average gas vehicle or 10k miles/year in a 20 mpg vehicle.

Most states I know of have an EV tax already