Jim doesn't believe in climate science. Elon might believe in it, but is so cynical that he just says we have to send people to Mars, which is unsustainable being reliant on the home planet.

40-mi electric range if charged TWICE a day can give you 80-mi all-electric-range. Why carry more battery and pay more for battery than you really need? What percentage of people drive more than 80 miles a day? Probably a few % the most.
Why not charge at work using day-time solar energy? During cloudy or rainy day, those PHEV that are plugged-in at work can sell back power to the grid when really needed.

His earlier book, Philosophy in the Flesh, was one of the first generalist books on the implications of evolutionary development on primate brains and cognition. This book, along with Mathematics: The loss of Certainty, were two that have shaped my thinking over the last thirty years.

If we’re talking “can”, then an optimal PHEV can easily be better than BEV.

Until battery manufacturing gets green (an let’s be real: low cost is the top priority for electrification of transport, so it’s staying dirty for many years), a PHEV can prevent 5-10 tonnes of CO2 emissions. If you drive 90%+ on electric, you’ll be net positive.

One thing to consider is that many people (esp pickup and large SUV buyers) will want 500-mile EPA range before going EV. That can be a 200kWh+ battery…

Yep, the end of the Fairness Doctrine was the beginning of the end for representative government.

Anthropogenic climate change proves your point about mother nature wrong. The reality that you are in denial of is our modern society is powered by burning toxins removed from the biosphere before our species evolved. We are rapidly turning the plant into the toxic world that didn’t support human life we will not adapt to that any more than the species adapted to the 5 mass extinction events that happened in the past. But welcome to the 6th mass extinction event brought to us by the very additude your post so clearly documents.

“…60 is simply at in-city speed limit that’s common….”

!!!! OMG!! What city are you talking about. Where is it!! It want to drive it!!. It would be like a pin-ball machine with pedestrians.
WOW… Look at the hang time on that one!! 10 points!!

“Aerodynamics is critical to an EV range and so anything that interrupts…”

Ahhh. Sorry to burst you piss-ass bubble here, Aerodynamics is IMPORTANT for ANYTHING THAT MOVES!! It is Mass, Aerodynamic and rolling friction that in combination with velocity and gravity that determines the amount of energy to move or accelerate ANY object, NO MATTER WHAT ENERGY SOURCE YOU USE TO MOVE IT!!

Your FFI colors are showing here…