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They produce emissions and there's no way for them to ever not produce emissions. I've worked in the car business, your bullshit isn't working on me.

Meh, I don't think they're wrong.

I'd go for hydrogen ICE if I could alter a slider setting on the game, and we'd get an abundant pure water resource for our Civ.

Anyway, it might take a lifetime to advance a small space. o7

Hopefully it's not just 'cause they are running out

Koca Koala.

The Yangtze River dolphin is actually a different species & is sadly (most likely) extinct.

Woo young woo would love this

"87.2% of the country’s electricity mix" ain't too bad! 👀

Toyota bet on both hydrogen fuel cell and battery. They are playing all sides.

That's super cool sounding. I wanna go to Maine.

Yeah a crash is inevitable. Consumer debt is skyrocketing and consumer savings are plummeting while cost of living is dramatically increasing; during an already dodgey economy.

I think it’s the perfect storm for a major recession. I know people have been calling for one since before Covid but these new debt and savings numbers will clash and people won’t service their debt to pay for groceries.

I don’t know if the government has the money for a bailout of this magnitude. Auto debt 1 trillion alone, credit card debt is over a trillion. Like the bailouts were hundreds of billions, collectively 1.7-2t but nothing like the debt bubble that’s about to burst.

I mean maybe just let banking and finance fail. Credit unions didn’t need a bailout bc they didn’t do all the risky stuff bc nobody can own more than one share. So it’s not driven by stock price so they don’t do high risk high reward stuff for short term gain and kick the can down the line.

Let the banks collapse and let credit unions take over. If banking were non profit it’d save us a lot of money in interest but also bailouts.

How can they bail out the individual though? How can one “bail out Main Street” instead of wall Street?

Republicans will howl if the government started laying peoples debt for them. But they’d applaud if more money was spent bailing out the banks.

Interesting.

They are pointless for an electric car i agree.

For retrofit application it's easier to keep the gearbox and only use the 2nd or 3rd gear for exemple, you set the right gear and never touch it again. Like that you have an already made adapter for the driveshaft with the correct drive line angle, you have frame mount and support with factory and easy to find oem bushing, the gas engine was already in a good spot for weight management so the electric motor should be at the same placé etc. It's just easier to do it that way, and you limit the number of custom fabricated parts needed and cost.

For brand new car on the other hand there is no point to fit a gearbox and it's easier to use an entire axle with motor included like tesla's as you can design the frame to fit around it.

We will have another crash and they will bail out wallstreet. But beyond that union power IS increasing. Sure it's not winning every battle, and they knew the rail strike was one they couldn't allow so they fired their shots.

But millennials and gen z do not agree with laissez-faire capitalism. And they don't agree with American power structures either. So eventually it will fall

Toyota can leapfrog a lot of existing EVs if they come out with a NIO style automatic battery replacement system and a massive scale rollout of swapping stations.

This way, they get around issues with battery technology (new battery tech, just swap it out) and users can be 100% charged in the amount of time it takes to fill an ICE gas tank.

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Worked with a woman from Ivory Coast (not called that). I just adored her accent.

You have to get people to strike. I worked at a credit union, I was fired for having a disability and they denied disability yet no one even wants to join the union.

So if it’s hard to get people to join the union, and the government crushed the rail strike before it happened… I’m not sure how you’d get enough people behind it unless we had another crash and they bailed out Wall Street and not Main Street. That might lead to a strike.

I also think we should general strike, which is the true attack america can't handle. But both things strike me as the only way.

They're not going to keep killing workers because ultimately their power depends on workers working.

So there is a huge army here and a heavily militarized police force. Police have weapons from the war from M4 carbines to armored personnel carriers, to humvees, they’d put anything down pretty fast.

Never would be ideal...let the market be free. Require carbon neutral fuel eventually but otherwise it's overstepping governments power.

Hydrogen makes steel brittle...can permeate it directly, and has incredibly bad energy density...

overturn the law as unconstitutional...

That's a bald faced lie. Also people produce emissions... If you hardline everything to that point...

Emissions on modern gas and diesel engines are ultra low except for CO2..... And this can be completely recovered via carbon cycle so long term will nullify thier carbon footprint (within a growing season, 1 years worth of automotive CO2 is insignificant as a load to the ecosystem.... constantly adding more is not).

I was wondering why so many used Mirais are selling for cheap