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Wooster

@ Wooster @startrek.website

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  • Ford is working on a $25,000 compact EV

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  • Yes, and I personally would rather avoid paying a premium over the electricity I can get at home. If I intend to stick to that, then I have to be prepared for when Murphy shows his unwelcome face.

  • Ford is working on a $25,000 compact EV

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  • There are reasonable reasons for wanting a greater range than you expect to use on a regular basis. Not the least of which is a power outage or your own home charger choosing an inopportune moment to kick the bucket, as you are your own gas station manager.

  • More Leaf owners with battery problems say Nissan has abandoned them

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  • Is that even possible at this stage? Car battery technology is still very much in its infancy and alternative forms of storage are an intense point of investment.

    I certainly agree that that should happen, but I feel like we’re still in the Wild West era of electric cars.

  • Are microplastics from car tyres contributing to heart disease?

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  • Legit asking:

    Up until relatively recently, the layman’s understanding of pollution was mostly focused on exhaust.

    What caused the general shift in focus to microplastics, and by direct extension tire ware?

  • EV buying help

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  • The range of both vehicles is comparable, so I’d argue it boils down to which dealer is more convenient to visit for the odd maintenance.

    (That aside, I’m personally dubious of opting for a lease, especially if money is tight long term. But I’m the sort of person who’d opt to get every damned mile out of a vehicle I could before begrudgingly admitting it’s time for a replacement.)

  • Volkswagen and Xpeng to roll out two new EVs, starting with an SUV

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  • Semi-off topic… but I’m surprised they aren’t making/marketing a Lightning Bug.

  • No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on

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  • On paper, that’s a great idea.

    In practice though, you can expect the dealers to markup the difference, so the consumer pays exactly the same.

    At least with the tax credit, dealers still have to account for sticker shock.

    Edit: Looks like you’ve edited the message since my reply. So continuing:

    They do offer subsidies on home chargers, both installation and the device itself, also through tax credits. Though you have to be careful, if your tax credits on the car exceed your taxes for that year, the credit for the charger is worthless.

    I may be smart to make your EV purchase towards the end of one tax year, and the charger at the beginning of the next.

  • Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000

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  • What a world we live in, where “most affordable” and $70,000 dollars can be used in the same sentence.

  • Joe Biden criticises snack makers for ‘shrinkflation rip-off’

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  • Article mentions nothing with regards to holding corporations accountable nor any plan or threat of action on the president’s part.

  • Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds - Reuters

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  • The very last thing you need is for Trump to become a martyr.

  • Tesla recalling nearly 2.2M vehicles for software update to fix warning lights that are too small

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  • … I really dislike how headlines are designed, not to inform, but even to the opposite in the name of drawing clicks. I realize this isn’t on you, but more the AP, but still.

    TL;DR The warning light FONT is too small.

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    Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026

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  • Vaguely reminds me of “The Batman” Batmobile.

    Also, why is the lighting poor in every shot?

  • 15 states seeing 'high' or 'very high' levels of respiratory illness: CDC

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  • Covid vaccination is at an all time low since roll out, we have new strains, and everyone is back from sharing bugs with relatives at Thanksgiving.

    Christmas is up soon.

  • Biden names Harris to lead first federal gun violence prevention office

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  • "In the absence of that sorely-needed action, the Office of Gun Violence Prevention along with the rest of my Administration will continue to do everything it can…”

    Isn’t that basically admitting that this new department can’t do anything and just posturing?

    Or am I missing something?

    Edit: In retrospect, the biggest value this department might have is having it be under Republican leadership down the line. An entire department explicitly against gun violence may cause some in-fighting about reasonable measures… as opposed to the current status quo.

    That is of course assuming the entire department doesn’t just get tossed and establishes itself as having some teeth.