OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150

Fuel cells all have the problem of a contaminated catalyst. They're very hard/impossible to make into a commercial product. They're another "everyone will have one in 10 years", for the past 50 years.

Prezactly. That's the only problem stopping nuclear energy.

All of the energy from any reaction that produces work, ends up as heat.

Because then he will lobby the government for more regulations forcing E85?

...and there is no worry about refilling the aquifers.

Actually, there aren't that many *cars* sold in the US anymore. Yes, there is a wide variety. That's a bad thing?

I guess not. ;-)

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ANd our great, great, great, great,..., grand children.

If they happen to live in a metropolitan area. Hell, I live in a large metropolitan area and there is no ride sharing, unless you want to pay both ways.

"We" aren't laying down our car keys.

LOL!

It will probably never run out, until we do.

That's Tesla's whole business plan.

Them? Us!

The only thing that's not political, now, is politics.

When I lived in CT I traveled to Philadelphia often. It was faster to drive than fly. At both ends the airport was an hour from my destination, you had to be at the airport 1 to 2 hours before flight time. Then I'd have to rent a car at destination. Not like the old days.

Now I'm 1200 miles away and still choose to drive it a few times a year.

I'm not either but millions of people never drive more than 5 or 10 miles in a day. Does not take much to fit their needs.

Tree hugging, "green" yuppies don't give a s*it about how poor people get around or how much of their green policy gets subsidized by the poor. There is no better example than the subsidy for electric cars and solar panels. The people rich enough to put $30,000 on their roof or buy a $50,000 Tesla get discounted electricity and for $40,000 on the roof they may even be selling power back at full retail rates while that person living from check to check is paying for it in higher rates to cover the difference. The left loves to tell us taxes are the price we have to pay to have a functioning society but they are not paying any fuel taxes to support the roads they drive their EVs on. They get a tax rebate for buying the EV.

Maybe they can design a downsized and simplified version of an APU/EPU, like fighter jets have, and power it with a very small tank of hydrazine. When your batteries die, you fire up the APU and go another 50-60 miles.

Auxiliary Power Unit Emergency Power Unit

States will follow states like Ohio who charges $200/year extra for EV registration only $100 extra for hybrids.

Just saw this:

They should. Per mile would be more fair, just like the gas tax but harder to implement. AFAIK. Hawaii is the only state that records miles at inspection. Many states thankfully don't have inspection.

At least he was honest and said "nobody knows". I don't know how he has so many followers unless they have investments in caffeine. I can't take a lot of hyper Scotty.

I wish my state NC would do away with them. Before the computer cars many places would just scrape off the old sticker and put you a new one on if they knew you . Never look at the car. Now they plug in the computer and don't look at anything else.

The garages problably lobby to keep the money maker. Some of the dealers and other will find a few things like windshield wipers that 'need' replacing.