If you’re advocating back to horse and buggy, I’ll ask you to step around to the Zerks looney bin area.
Not at all.....I'm advocating a change to the work/live model to move people closer to where they work instead of the huge sprawl we currently have....even public transit can't manage all the movement each day....
Everyone, just about everyone, that I know as well. I live right in town, and with the addition of a couple of neighborhood stores I don’t even need a vehicle half the time. I love it, but hardly anyone feels that way, so hopefully EV and ICE technology keeps advancing at the same pace.
ca.finance.yahoo.com
I can see this in separatist Quebec and California like British Columbia....Loading…
www.cbc.ca
Canadian quarterly EV sales set records, defying global trends
Battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles reached their highest-ever quarterly registration totals and took their highest-ever share of the market in Q2 2024, Statistics Canada data show.
By the same token the ICE could go bad, or the much more complicated transmission in an ICE vehicle could go bad, doubling the possibility. In town, in an area without horrific cold, an EV is way more prone to dependability, so there is a target segment in society for EV.
The entire Achille's heal of anything EV is the battery system and lack of range.....and with the smaller battery of a hybrid the range is even less.
As the situation unfolds, especially in very cold areas like where you are, you should have a choice.
Just saying, but a hybrid plug in will generally only give us around 20-30 miles extra on a full charge. It is a marketing gimmick.
I've been in my son's Santa Fe and it is a pretty decent machine....all except without the engine running you don't have heat.....
An assumption nearly everyone makes is that the world will only get better, technology will always improve things. If you challenge this belief you're viewed as doomer and a Luddite, but the fact is the Earth does have limited resources, and one day we will have to cease our suburban sprawl and profligate consumption. Intelligent men and women of science have been pointing this out for centuries actually
The motorcycles we ride today are vastly superior to the ones I saw in the dealerships in the 1970's as a teenage boy. But the roads in general are vastly inferior to those back then. A lot of those blacktop roads were only 20 or 30 years old, older ones hadn't suffered the degradation caused by today's massive trucks either. Every now and then they rebuild a highway from scratch, making it wider, better. But the thousands of other roads out in the countryside and around the cities never see a rebuild, they are only ever patched, small sections rebuilt. Ever more expensive resources, Oil mostly I suspect, and lack of money are the reason.
Honestly, our current civilization was a one shot affair, a 100 year experiment using oil and oil based machinery to pave roads and build concrete bridges etc. No one has ever provided a plan on how to rebuild all this stuff without that cheap oil and coal and that is why I dismiss these future utopian transitions as delusional garbage. You don't have to have a STEM background to come to this conclusion, it's common sense.
View attachment 1691076
View attachment 1691077
View attachment 1691078
Evolution
View attachment 1691079
I appear to be the thread villain in many threads these days.....it's hard to keep up as to which one.
Particularly when the lesser educated ones are smarter than the higher educated ones.
According to the famous quote by philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, "All truth passes through three stages": First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.
Interesting.
I have noticed something over my life, people who are very smart in one field tend to think that makes them smart in other non-related fields. Like a technician I knew, a Wizard with an oscilloscope and a soldering iron who also thought he qualified as a builder. The structures he built were disasters but he kept at it, never connecting the dots? Teachers are the obvious example, oh they are so smart, but basically they just regurgitate the same stuff they learnt in highschool, stuff we all know turned out to be near worthless in the real world. I knew a sales engineer too, he'd forgotten more than he'd learnt after 40 years in sales but was convinced he was a financial expert. The GFC took half his wealth, if it wasn't for the houses he'd bought idling away in the background he'd have a very ordinary retirement now.
