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im_thatoneguy t1_j4x4d2t wrote

Reply to comment by BobMackey718 in Toyota to Convert Older Cars to Eco-Friendly Models to Curb Emissions by renome

It's extremely low density. Not suitable for a car.

Similarly there was a battery swap battery that was an Aluminum metal battery. Amazing range. But required specialized facilities to recharge. So you would have to battery swap which is complicated and expensive.

The problem is that for most people, just plugging into their garage power outlet is the cheapest and most convenient system. (I'm not one of those people since I have no garage. But you design around the norm, not the exception.)

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Graywulff t1_j4x3qo3 wrote

Reply to comment by ItsFckinSarah in Toyota to Convert Older Cars to Eco-Friendly Models to Curb Emissions by renome

Yeah, lobbyists, citizens United, etc. unfortunately they have massive lobbying power and unless we emulate the GameStop short squeeze, and pool money into a political action committee, I don’t think we’d be doing much other than agreeing with each other in an idealogical bubble.

If we made environmental standards international somehow, if we improved labor standards around the world in order to sell to the US, EU, Japan, etc than we might see more investment in American manufacturing but that’s mostly robotic creating profit for the .01%.

I mean the republicans want to gut the IRS and cut the social support system to pay for it. That’s horrifying for someone on disability and who knows a lot of people dependent on the system.

People having to pay taxes on stock over 10 million worth would help a ton though. It’s. 191X decision, before that they taxed stock like regular income. Also taking the cap off of social security tax. I think 180k and 1M pay the same amount and get paid the same amount. At least with the social safety net and deficit.

The companies should def pay more, but they have rigged the system to their advantage and they collectively have trillions to do it.

It’s really hard to fight the power when they hand already hoarded all the wealth.

Too bad we aren’t like the French and cut off their power!

Unfortunately regan decapitated labor with his union busting.

We really need ranked choice voting and a labor party. Even if they didn’t run for president at first, until they stood a chance of actually winning, but instead took local legislatures and city councils and eventually federal office.

They’d vote in line with Bernie and Elizabeth Warren I’d guess.

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BobMackey718 t1_j4x1la5 wrote

Reply to comment by MarkRclim in Toyota to Convert Older Cars to Eco-Friendly Models to Curb Emissions by renome

Have you heard about the liquid battery that someone just developed? I remember reading a story about it on Reddit about 3-6 months ago, the tech was basically a rechargeable liquid that you fill up your battery with, when the charge runs low it can be swapped out for freshly charged fluid at a filling station or recharged at home or work or wherever. I thought the whole concept and tech would be pretty revolutionary as it’s combining the low emissions of an EV with the convenience of gasoline style fill up. There was no word on how expensive the liquid battery fluid was to produce or how bad it is for the environment in terms of the inevitable spills that would happen. It was one of those things where I thought in 10 years it will be the norm and change the way we live or we’ll never hear anything about it ever again.

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Graywulff t1_j4wxgx6 wrote

Reply to comment by ItsFckinSarah in Toyota to Convert Older Cars to Eco-Friendly Models to Curb Emissions by renome

The problem is if you raise taxes that much they’ll move to Mexico or another country. Just look at outsourcing. We used to be the manufacturing hub of the world. Now we barely make any of our own stuff bc it’s cheaper, and much worse for the environment, to make it in china or south of the boarder.

They should def pay more taxes and itd help the deficit. But we have huge debt.

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Dioxid3 t1_j4wt1pf wrote

Reply to comment by broyoyoyoyo in Toyota to Convert Older Cars to Eco-Friendly Models to Curb Emissions by renome

There is another catch: they heavily invested in hybrid tech.

I was shopping for a new car, and realised Toyota has no PHEVs. Chatted with the salesman and he claims it’s Toyota wanting to keep the prices low by not sinking a 10-15k battery into the car.

In a way it makes sense, the NiMh batteries they utilize hold barely a few kWh, but I am sure they are a lot more replacable and cheaper. But I am sure part of it are the sunken costs.

It does help with emissions too, being able to drive full electric in rush hour. But it won’t be long until that ICE kicks in.

Toyota is an oddity from supply chain and manufacturing perspective, so it is hard to doom them for going against the grain.

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chancewitt21 t1_j4wondf wrote

Reply to Columbus Zoo announces name of baby koala by citytiger

Ah. Our good overrated Columbus zoo. Uses our franklin county tax money for funds when theyre located in delaware county. Then gets busted using the money for personal spending, lost its zoo credentials with the AZA which they were a big advocate of having to have in order to house exotic animals ever since the Zanesville, Ohio incident in 2011. Wish they would at least fine them and give us our tax money back. We get a measly discount on tickets that anyone can purchase onlne, they never check my ID.

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