The Japanese and Korean vehicles for the American market aren’t any better to be fair.

I don’t doubt that there’s going to be a big effort to discredit Mamdani, but why would Trump care if he looks clean? He’s never cared before about that kind of thing.

Really this is one area wherr most US politicians for years have been equally bad, they’ve all been protectionist of the US auto industry and pushed poorly thought-out emissions regulation that makes cars bigger there

I doubt it, but they’re also not worse than any equivalent year gas car I’ve heard of

Most demographic information in the US (all?) is self-reported, and unless you were in the American southwest, Hispanic community prevalence and cultural influence in the broader US is pretty recent, so I suspect that not many U.S.-derived Native Americans are mislabeling themselves as Hispanic.

Traditionally it actually went the other way: Native Americans, while second class citizens in a lot of respects, were more respected than black people or dark-skinned immigrants. So, for instance, there were tons and tons of light-skinned black folk passing as Native and marrying into white families in New England especially. It was a big topic in genetics when things like Ancestry DNA reports became more common and lots of people who’s great great great grandfather was Cherokee or whatever found out he was actually an escaped slave who passed as Native.

That being said, most Latin American Hispanics are of at least partially indigenous descent, so in a broader sense most Hispanics in the US are indeed indigenous, they’re just descended from Nahuatl/Mayan/Quechua/Mapuche or some other indigenous ethnic group, rather than one of the groups that is today considered ‘Native American’ in the US.

David Sedaris in a commencement speech gave some advice that has really stuck with me and is quite apt, I think. To paraphrase, “you can’t win everything, so pick one or two issues to be passionately angry about and try to change and focus on those, or you won’t get anything done.”

Found the quote, Oberlin 2018 commencement: “Choose one thing to be terribly, terribly offended by, and be offended by this as opposed to the dozens or possibly hundreds that many of you are currently juggling… Stand up for what you believe in, as long as I believe in the same thing. Those of you who’d like to ban assault rifles, I am behind you 100 percent. Take the front lines, give it your all, and don’t back down until you win. Do not, however, petition to have a Balthus painting removed from the Met because you can see the subject’s underpants. The goal is to have less in common with the Taliban, not more.”

Especially if it’s going to weigh as much as a small RV

Him speaking at the RNC was not in and of itself bad–i heard him justify it later and he made some good points, that there are a lot of exploited workers in the base who could stand to hear the benefits of unions from a union leader instead of just hearing Fox propaganda. But to look at the tax cuts, the benefit cuts, and the tariff outcomes and double down on Trump makes it abundantly clear where his loyalties lie–his own pockets, and maybe his own prejudices.

Also a lot of what (good) trial lawyers do is cover all the small loopholes, so questions that seem silly are because Dr X-acto got off on murder by claiming it was an autopsy in 1798 or whatever. Or it’s a bad trial lawyer and it is silly.

I don’t quite get how they’ve managed to fit a five-foot bed and two rows of seating in just 152 inches. Even if we assume no hood whatsoever and an inch thick frame that’s only 90 inches for the entire passenger compartment, which is pretty tight. Maybe the seats are thin and very vertical?

They have been since at least 2013 if you only count the range extender BMW i3, and even earlier if you count PHEVs that mostly act that way but occasionally mechanically link the engine and wheels

So it’s a Chevy volt or BMW i3 style PHEV?

I actually see a lot of lyriqs (relatively speaking, as many as other Cadillac midsize SUVs) and a few ariya. Never seen a Hummer ev on the road though

That’s pretty disingenuous, the Hyundai ionic 6 is either the second or third fastest charging (km/minute) EV on the market and costs twice as much as the most affordable non-chinese EVs. I’m an advocate for mass ev adoption, but to pretend that real issues don’t exist hurts the movement. Battery capacity doesn’t necessarily need to increase imo, but all cars need the charging speed of Hyundai/Tesla or better before these types of trips are reasonable.

In a 2023 Chevy Bolt here’s what the same trip looks like:

It’s not just evacuation, it’s a sudden illness or death in the family that means that I have to drive 7-12 hours on very short notice, which has happened to me twice in the last 5 years. I daily drive an EV but to pretend that I don’t sometimes need more range than it has and can easily compensate for (lack of charging infrastructure in rural areas, charging adding 4 hours to a 12 hour drive unless you drive a 50k+ car or a tesla) is ridiculous. Tbh I think the 260 miles of my bolt is more than enough for me if it charged like a Tesla/Hyundai and there were more chargers in West Virginia

Why are they only releasing SUVs? Such a PITA

I can see it being useful for students or the types of professionals that can use an iPad as a travel laptop, so you have this and your phone instead. Seems pretty awful for almost any other use case though

I’m in this boat and got a bolt, though I wish it were lower. And that they kept making it.

No, but it does play a pretty significant role in how much influence they have to control AI

Just in case there was any doubt, the data shows 2024 as the warmest, with 2023 and 2025 competing for second.