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I do agree that a lot of it comes down to people who are poorly informed or economic self-interest. Can't say anything about your grandchildren, though. There is also a lot of vicious disinformation that a lot of people naively think is correct. At the same time technology is changing with...

Undersea power transmission cables have been in common and reliable use since the 1950s.

The average home consumes about 30kwh per day, so if that was all smoothed out and uniform somehow that would power fifty homes. So a very little town, The reality is that electricity consumption is never smoothed out and uniform and in practice peak demand can be on the order of 10kw to 15kw...

I don't know why you think you can assume that. The bigger challenge is individual variance. And things such as ambient temperature and humidity impacts how well the human part of the system works, and quantifying that is measurably different for each person. The thing is even a 9-year-old...

Nothing is wrong with integrating the motor and gearbox. My problem is with the claimed benefits and the assumptions behind them. The first thing is that human beings aren't like electric motors, and finding the optimum place in the efficiency curve is pretty hard to figure out without being...

Sometimes I question exactly what problems people are trying to solve when they do stuff like this.

Can you show us where the bad Road Bikers hurt you? Just saying, but I've had 100x times as many d-bag encounters with motor vehicle operators than any group of cyclist.

Yes, that is true that observing and learning from others is part of the process of gaining new knowledge. But it isn't the only part. Otherwise the world would be full of martial arts experts who learned their craft by watching Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. A lot of things in the real world...

I think there is a big difference between someone who owned and operated an EV and found out that it didn't work for them and why and someone who has never even driven one who argues about why they are awful and can't work. Some also easily see the tradeoffs and drawbacks of them but can't see...

What country, exactly, are you living in? This is a capitalist, free enterprise society. Of course money is going to be the dominant factor. How much money you have and how you spend it is directly correlated to how long you live and how healthy you are. Yeah, money can't buy happiness. But...

What I see is that the people doing actual Truck Things almost never are driving any truck made after about 2010. What I also see is a large class of suburbanites who "identify" as rural people who drive silly, overpriced pickup trucks as a kind of cultural identification. Which of course they...

The vast majority of truck owners do actual Truck Things with their trucks only once or twice a year. Basically it is an idiotic financial decision packaged as a lifestyle choice. I find it hilarious when the guy who has an F350 to tow a boat twice a year complains about how Kids These Days...

I guarantee that you spend more minutes per month pumping gas than I do at public EV charging stations.

90 percent of the miles I drive are provisioned by home charging from solar panels on my roof.

Yes, I freely admit EV production is subsidized. But still... How many times in the last forty years have we bailed out legacy automakers to the tune of billions of dollars? How many trillions of dollars in military expenditures and soft power have we spent ensuring that the petroleum keeps...

How do you know this?

No, they are in it to make money, because we are all cheerful and honest capitalists. But they are trying to make money through the most viciously unfair trade practice of all: selling a superior product at a lower price. Yes, EVs are currently somewhat more expensive to purchase than...

... except that charging overnight is typical for 90 percent of use cases and that is, everywhere, a time when we aren't using very much electricity. And since the structure of the grid is determined largely by peak load, you won't need to change the grid very much to allow ev charging at large...

In other news, Wal-Mart is quietly but rapidly building out its own DCFC network at its many retail locations. As of the middle of June, 65 locations are open nationwide, 136 are under construction, and at least 190 are in the permitting process. This is eventually intended to replace...

They could have, but the change in the laws seemed to have happened decades after the traffic circles were removed. I'd also keep in mind that auto safety and the statistical analysis of traffic accidents was in its infancy back in those days and both the reliability of the data collected and...