Recent Comments

1. about 4 hours ago on 9 to 5

   There is no reason to buy another car if your current car is reliable and does what you need. However, the average price of a used EV is only about $1000 more than the average price of a used conventional car… there’s no need to get riled up – especially when you’re not in the market anyway.

2. about 5 hours ago on 9 to 5

   The power grid is not static – it can be, and is being, expanded. There is a lot of wasted power on the grid at night – which is a convenient time to charge EVs at home. And EVs can be charged without using the power grid.

   But yes, it will take years (if not decades) before there is a complete switchover – if there ever is a complete switchover. At some point the infrastructure has to be changed anyway (to some other alternate fuel) since petroleum is a dwindling resource.

3. about 5 hours ago on 9 to 5

   Trouble with hybrids is they have double complexity (they have both ICE and electric drivetrain components) so there is a potential for more maintenance and trouble. But yes I do see the point of having both technologies available.

   A nationwide charging network is being built out. It’s a kind of “chicken or the egg” situation… one needs to have some confidence in electric car popularity growth in order to justify business speculation. One also needs to consider that refueling an electric car is different from refueling an ICE car – particularly when one can refuel an electric at home and meet most of their needs while refueling an ICE requires going to a gas station every time.

   There are already electric cars that can meet the 500 – 600km range, albeit they are also the more expensive models. As technology advances that 500 – 600km request can be met affordably. But I have been hearing the “we need at least X miles of range” argument for years – as the technology meets one requested range, the requesters move the goalposts by demanding even more range…

4. about 6 hours ago on 9 to 5

   Says poor businessmen who have no foresight nor ability to take advantage…

5. about 6 hours ago on 9 to 5

   It will be interesting to see how this plays out: Trump gives Musk a lot of power in his administration… Trump hates EVs, so in turn MAGAs hate EVs… but Musk sells EVs…

6. about 6 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Do you care if a right winger wants to cancel you?

7. about 6 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Only one President has called for revoking the FCC licenses of broadcasters that he doesn’t like…

8. about 6 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   It didn’t work out well for the workers, but it was merely a short inconvenience for most of the upper managers.

   Most of the companies where I worked that went bankrupt after worker revolts appear to have been too small to have left any footprint on the Internet. Or the “revolts” were not loud and physical enough to be noticed by the press – one example is the former Melpar. There is some information about Melpar on the Internet, but the “revolt” was phrased as demoralized employees who left the company – some of whom established competing companies.

9. about 7 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   If that website makes Trump look bad, he will use his self-proclaimed powers to cancel it…

10. about 7 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    Goebbels says he needs to keep posting it… and keep posting it…