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ZETA is an EV industry trade group pushing for 2030 as well. Unsurprisingly, all the EV names are members including Tesla who usually like to do their own thing. https://www.zeta2030.org/ I'm curious how Washington plans to deal with the rural communities as well as MUD (multi-user dwellings...

Here's a different but similar thing. The only reason I like this is that there's a whole backstory about electric and BMW. Big on pump, thin on details but lots of fun.

Are you suggesting people vehicles are "reasonable" people? They are not. I am quite serious. Reasonable purchases would not include sports cars, luxury sedans, or stainless steel 80K trucks. Talk to someone who still loves driving their '62 Bug or a F250 grocery getter. Even after EV are...

This is fascinating and unfortunate. According to the Total CEO, the prices of the renewable projects that they seek are actually going up while consumer installs and production prices are going down. However much I think individual solar is a great thing, having major energy companies do MW...

I had always seen their eCascadia as a Mercedes-Benz product, probably all my misunderstanding. They promo'd driving assist tech with the eCascadia a couple years ago iirc. Of all the class 8 offerings, I think this offering is the only real challenger; they got all the beats: autonomous...

Wait, is the GM partner Great Wall Motors or General Motors? Micro-vehicle, does 60mph, carries four, no licence needed... makes sense /s If the push is toward cleaner air via EV, then why continue to make coal plants? I'm not sure I'll ever understand China

Bee in your bonnet today? They can name their platform whatever they want. Motherboards have a form factor but they get their own names. VW has a skateboard-ish form factor butat least they call it MEB because Modularer E-Antriebs-Baukasten is better than board with trucks and wheels. If...

And... back on topic now... Rivian supposedly has a "skateboard platform". This is simultaneously cool and stupid. Truck, van, utility vehicle, fullll size sedan are all possibilities, with economies of scale still being a benefit. Potentially change the center frame length and battery...

Interesting for a bit, it's hard for me to give a shit about a 10,000 year period let alone a inter-glacial or even a 1000 year period. The guy has the whole black shirt vibe down, he's worked for NASA and PBS and yadda, yadda, yadda. Living till the next IceAge, circa 2700, is my...

Interesting. So if a teenager is asked, "Why did you leave that shirt on the floor?" and they respond, "because I couldn't be bothered to go the extra step and put in the dresser", we might call them a slob or lazy. We wouldn't call them pro-mess necessarily because it seems weird. But...

Haha, this just popped up today.

Maybe I should not have said "bold move" but rather "GM had a thought and some feelings". :D

I see you take bold as an absolute, maybe even only the front runners can do it perspective. I take it to be relative, for GM, an antiquated has-been to declare all EV, it is for them. A winner take all approach to bold, or any other endeavor, suggests we should only care about the leaders...

GM has had a PE ratio generally speaking between 0 and 20, mostly around 8 to 10 **for the last 10 years**. When Tesla has a P/E of absurd proportions, Amazon/UPS/USPS look to a startup for commercial bids, and even China(!) is going EV, there's no need to check in with shareholders...

This is a bold declaration. I wonder how Ford will respond as we've already heard from Toyota and VW. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35352321/gm-eliminate-gas-vehicles-2035/ GM CEO Mary Barra announced a bold plan to phase out gas- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035. The plan is part...

I don't read it that way. The executive supervisory board i.e. the ones that he needs confidence from said yes to him. The non-executive board in charge of his contract said no the extension that he wanted early. In other words, the labor unions know the switch to EV is VW's future, but...