My bad, I took the shortcut of calling g pickups: trucks. Currently large trucks are treated differently from passenger vehicles and I’m sure that would continue
As you say, if it were truly based on road damage, commercial vehicle would have to cover most of it. That may be fair, but yeah doesn’t seem economically sustainable
Yeah, this is my scenario: stay for a week of hiking or going to the beach. I live in New England where everything is close and there are plenty of superchargers.
For example Acadia National park is 280 miles, has dozens of superchargers enroute, and lots of hiking.
Or there’s beach camping like 20 miles away
No, we’re good with Canada. We already have a lot more in common than with the flyover states
And make them pay reparations for what they don’t people’s lives
Before the current political chaos, you would have made a mint. A little ingenuity and affordable value, along with the worlds second biggest car market next door would have been huge
My buildout went to $33,600 for fastback with roof rack and speakers
While that’s a lot more than base, it’s exactly what I want and it’s still a great price compared to any other EV available to me. The only thing it would really not be good at is road trips but I still have my model Y
But as a big and tall guy I would never buy a vehicle without trying it to see if it’s comfortable for me …… and to see if I can remove the back seats and fit it out as a camper. (My brother is doing that with a sienna hybrid and he probably has the right idea: lack of range could be a problem if you want to camp for a week with no electric)
Yes, I saw data once. Everyone likes to parrot the concept that past industrial revolutions lead to all sorts of new jobs and the economy kicking it up a gear. But the jobs never pivot. The jobs are lost. A generation or two is disrupted, and worse off before their children and garandchildren see any benefit
That’s ok, because their misery and poverty lets us sit back from the distance of a century and claim it was all for the better
And it’s only couches of legal age?
That looks really cool, but very far away.
I went to a small local one in New England run by my local brewer. These guys have some great ideas so I really hope they succeed. They just started running it at a local historical estate.
Unfortunately the day I was there did not have as many customers as they were probably hoping. Maybe sundays are light, I don’t know. It appeared to be the family day as we were the only ones without little kids, so that’s fantastic, but less the half the tables were in use
Oh no, we let Trump violate the law and constitutional checks and balances all this time, so now we said no and he just laughed.
Part of the problem is every area is different. I like seeing my senator’s support for it, even as it am skeptical it would help us. Massachusetts was built out long ago, so we have much less new construction than other states, consequently much lower corporate ownership. We’re also high cost of living so have a lot to change. We have state zoning overrides and local regulations that will probably work better for us, but every tool helps. Bring it on
Maybe. If you pay by weight and distance, and focus it on EVs “paying their share”, you may get a lot of truck owners reacting in outrage over something they know nothing about. As an EV owner I would vote for it despite it costing me more, because it’s a fair way to do it, it might cut back in ridiculous trucks …. Although I might angle for the income to be dedicated to “transportation infrastructure “, not just roads
Then again, my brother got one of those Silverado EVs. That battery is three times the size of mine and the car approaches 10,000 pounds. At some point there’s got to be a weight limit
Maybe this is confirmation bias, but when I see a vehicle that can’t stay in its lane or can’t make a turn, it’s inevitably a full sized pickup or suv.
There’s this one street corner near me that is admittedly a tight turn, it it’s near the elementary school and there are kids who walk. Every week or so in the winter, I’ll see tire tracks in the snow, on the sidewalk where kids walk to school, every day, from vehicles that didn’t make the turn and drive over the the corner of the sidewalk. It’s not like we have those tiny one lane paths the UK is famous for, it’s not that tight, any personal vehicle can make the turn, but some drivers can’t maneuver their vehicles well enough.
I’ve actually been wondering about putting together a petition to install different accessibility to the sidewalks. Our town uses the really nice ones where the entire corner is a ramp to the street. That’s great for all of us, but there’s no protection from cars. I wonder if we can go back to the older style with a full height curb aside from a specific ramp. Still accessible even if less so for all of us, but if it’s better at keeping the cars off the sidewalk, it may be worth it
This would be great for EVs, because
None in my state, but 50 miles, across to the next state
Are making, not are going to
Don’t worry,some states have lowered the minimum age for child workers. Let them earn their food
As someone from the US, I sure as heck don’t respect tipping. Calling it a culture is just more sales pressure. It long since stopped being a gratuity for service and has become a toxic habit for restaurant owners to exploit both customers and employees
Yeah I usually do it anyway because singling out one person to express indignation is also wrong
I’ve heard so much about hatch green chilies, but can’t get them here
I was going to say, it seems like some pretty minor changes would make a huge difference. But with no sidewalks, parks or cut throughs from the beginning, it’s all private property.
I brought my kids up in a more urban environment. Not quite urban enough to replace cars, but there’s a lot available at a walk. A few years back we visited family in the suburban Midwest and my kids tried to walk to a convenience store. Wow