the US continues to artificially prop up its EV market ex-China.

It’s not even that: a little protectionism is normal trade policy globally. This would be fine, if it were temporary and if there was a goal to develop the domestic industry.

The real problem is the combination of protectionism, while also rejecting the technology change and shrinking down to the home market. The protectionism will stop at some point. Realistically it has to. But when it does, American legacy manufacturers will find themselves struggling to sell buggy whips to a world that sees them as museum displays. We’re trying to milk a few more years out of the legacy technology at the cost of totally ignoring the future

Yeah, I have to say, I still see Tesla as the leader by far here in the us. And given how price of cars has skyrocketed, teslas are now also “affordable”. It’s a shame they seem to be abandoning the car market. There’s finally some EV choice but not much, half of the choice was just cancelled, and most are not good.

Rivian is our best choice for the next compelling EV, but R2 cost significantly more than Tesla.

• A lot of people online like the Equinox and it’s inexpensive, but poor efficiency, horrible software and no CarPlay. Also I’ve never seen one. GM cars in general don’t do well in my part of the US so it would be challenge to get people to see they exist
• Lucid looks great on paper and I’m excited to see their mass market vehicles in a year or two, but they e really been struggling. I hope the saudis continue to see it through
• Hyundai/Kia have been kicking ass on choice but low efficiency and still haven’t kicked their historical reputations for poor quality and easy to steal

It’s at least scammy but I don’t see how it’s aboveboard at all. It was only like $200 so not worth the cost of finding out

I did spend like a decade trying startups in the hope of one making it, without any luck. Interestingly the only buyout that got me anything was a midsized company, not a startup, purchased by a large company. The only options that have panned out was a midsized company bought by a private equity, where they’ve paid cash

You definitely take both. Apply for unenjoyment asap because it can take a few weeks for the money to start flowing. Also unenjoyment is much lower than pay, so you can’t expect to pay your bills with it

Last time I had to do this was a startup. We all worked insane hours trying to get the product off the ground but then

• layoffs just short of a year so can save on severance
• unemployment lower than my current mortgage
• paid money to buy out my options in case the company made it, but a couple weeks later they reissued them to zero

Ruining comedy yet again! This would have been epic if it came out April 1.

Yeah, this is extreme even for this administration. Even the rubber stamp Supreme Court will have to reject this one.

The question is whether Drump believes it himself or just cares about the temporary scare suppressing voting, hoping to draw it out until November

This just happened yesterday. Take a deep breath already

Yes and no. The problem pattern of ammunition production follows defense contracts: buy enough for stock, then don’t buy anymore. The industry is not configured for steady production.

Now we’re using a steady number but don’t have steady production to replenish stocks, but it seems like more of a production or industry configuration issue than a usage issue.

It’s also part of the reason weapons are so expensive: there’s no steady market to support steady production

Are you saying it attracts more of the wealthy, intelligent and motivated people to this country? Horrors!

Damn, I think I have one of those models. I did stop using the bristle side years ago but sometimes use the spring side to wipe Grease.

Unfortunately bristles are very effective and each make conflicting safety claims

Huh, and here I am thinking I’m dumb because it’s such a struggle getting the ai to produce usable code.

I mean. It clearly helps in some well defined areas, but actual code? like for a feature? Of a product you expect people to pay for? And you have to maintain?

I still say he could never win. No one in their right mind would vote for him. Any party that nominated him can only blame themselves for losing. But of course I voted. Always vote.

And he’s been even worse than the unelectable fooli thought he was, so WTF, people. But always vote

That may be true and is certainly a well known concern …. Yet given the US government’s recent history, I have a hard time believing much of what they say

Cheap Chinese routers as a risk being true doesn’t prevent it from also being true that the current us administration is full of shit and likely more concerned about enriching someone connected to them, or tilt at windmills

I’m actually stocking up on popcorn to watch the price of gas over the next decade as most of the world transitions to EVs

The thing is, as companies adjust to changing demand, supply will be out of balance. We’re in for a wild ride as price stability is the first thing to go.

Will people still not see it as it happens? They’ll see the low prices and buy ever larger trucks, then another refinery closes and prices will be high. Surprise!

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For sure, infrastructure gets built out over time and least populated areas probably are last. But, pulling numbers out of my ass, if a third of the us has their own house and lives near a city or coast, at least a third of our vehicles could conveniently be EV already, and that number just increases over time

I’ve driven over 1,000 miles down the east coast without too much inconvenience.

It’s not just that people don’t really take as many road trip ps as they claim, but also a lot of them are quite doable. Of course we need a lot more infrastructure, but we do have a usable amount in many places. Of course a lot of geography is underserved, but that’s a small percentage of the population

True, but spoiled petrolheads are complaint how expensive it is now that it hit $3.49/gal

No excuse for car manufacturers focussing on high profit models/trims, but …

I think the infrastructure considerations are overblown. Don’t get me wrong, its very true and this is an appropriate role for the government to coordinate infrastructure buildout, that it’s failing at. But it’s enough to support far more EVs than we have, and for many it’s not the obstacle they think it is

• there’s a solid percentage of people who own their own home and can charge at home - that should be a no-brainer yet most don’t have EVs yet.
• most of the us population is within 50 miles of a trip chargers, which, in conjunction with 300 mile ranges, makes road trips doable without too much inconvenience

I’m usually on the other side of this argument

• Tesla model 3 and y are $10k cheaper than originally
• we finally have a couple affordable EVs (Chevy equinox) and Nissan leaf is more usable than originally
• anyone with their own home should be able to charge at home cheaply
• just plugging in at home is so much more convenient than going to local gas stations all the time
• every road trip I’ve taken has had a usable amount of trip chargers (admittedly along the east coast)
• battery warrantees are typically longer than the first owner keeps a car, but real life shows batteries staying useful through 15 years, 250k miles

But yeah, in the us we’re not “over the hump” yet. There are still few EV models, selling for too much, and all the exciting announcements for next year have been cancelled. We’ve slowed the buildout of trip chargers and may have entirely stopped trying to find charging answers for apartments, condos, street parking. Worst of all the politicizing of EVs and cancelling the incentive means we are also not building a used EV market. Sure, there are cheap used ones now as a consequences of supply and demand, but that will constrict again with the pullback of new vehicles, while the existing used fleet rapidly obsolesces