My question is why I’ve seen a grand total of one Tesla on the road across three countries and yet somehow it was seemingly the top EV brand
Could be that those three countries and/or the specific parts of them you traverse aren’t typical for all 44 countries of Europe.
being 100% dependent on an external monopoly is strategically and mid-term problematic.
True, but the fact of the matter is that they already have a natural monopoly on some of the rare minerals that both their and the US industry depends on.
Just slapping a tariff on every part of the process including materials like this is inevitably ruinous to the American producers of solar energy unless they pass the cost down, which they inevitably will.
There’s literally no upside (other than for fossil fuel interests and the politicians in bed with them, of course) and mountains of downside to this moronic sledgehammer approach to financial diplomacy.
The problem at hand is that they are also destroying your industry, which is very bad in long term
That ship sailed DECADES ago when US corporations realized how profitable outsourcing is.
No amount of tariffs are going to make the world champions of profiteering base production in a country that so much as PRETENDS to treat workers humanely.
Trying to put that toothpaste back into the tube is only going to hurt the transition from fossil fuel powered energy when they inevitably pass the expense all the way down to the taxpayers.
Democratic party leaders Thursday morning said its officers should not take sides in primaries
Guess they’re trying to compete with the GOP on hypocrisy.
looks up Graham Lineham
If ever there was a case for separating the art from the artist (while still being careful not to support him monetarily or otherwise)…
Also, just a week or two ago, I DID download a Rimac Nevera.
In Cyberpunk 2077, but still…
Music piracy isn’t rampant at all. It’s the “immigrant crime is out of control” of the internet.
Japanese corporate culture is atrocious ≠ American corporate culture isn’t atrocious
Both need some major reforms in order to be just non-awful, let alone acceptable.
Any game more than 20GB and it ain’t being installed on anything I own.
Hard to know for sure since polls and elections conducted by the Russian government are about as reliable as my cats’ reporting on whether or not there’s food in their bowls.
Most likely, the majority consider themselves Ukrainian but are too oppressed by the occupying forces for their voices to be heard.
That’s what they’ve been doing for years already…
Relevant Last Week Tonight segment from 7 years ago when the Mango Mussolini was first infesting the white house.
Not that the problem hadn’t existed for decades already. Every president and congress from Reagan onwards have made conditions in immigration courts and immigration laws in general worse.
Them and ALEC, writing more state legislation than politicians do, all of it awful.
Reminder: this is the same guy who wants to send neurodivergent people to work camps to “cure” their “addiction” to lifesaving medication.
This reeks of an excuse to register everyone who’s on the spectrum in order to make that atrocity reality.
That’s like saying “I’m sure The Eagles are great, but they’re definitely not The Steelers”
(That’s a handegg reference contrasting the Superb Owl champions and an arguably mediocre team from the same state)
Make no mistake: Harvard rejects
antisemitismanti-zionism and discrimination inallsome of its forms and is actively making structural reforms to eradicateantisemitismfree speech that some of our major donors don’t like on campus
Fixed it for them.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re absolutely right to sue and I hope they win, but let’s not pretend that they’re the protectors of free speech they’re trying to portray themselves as.
The organizational processes of federal government are not built to defend against full-on onslaught and incessant lying.
Especially not when the party supposed to do the defending just lets flagrant violations go without so much as a comment.
That’s the opposite of reality in many cases.
For example, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Benelux countries have better charging networks AND much shorter distances between major population centers than the US in general.
Would have been relevant a decade ago, but now there’s public chargers at more and more parking lots and highway rest stops plus at least one major gas station chain has chargers at every station here in Denmark.
I have no doubt that conditions are even better in places like Norway and Sweden where they started adapting much earlier than we did.
Bolded the only part you’ve been right about so far.
They were back when the battery technology and charging infrastructure wasn’t in place to support fully transitioning to EVs, but most of Europe is way ahead of you, so as a rule rather than an exception, hybrids are an unnecessary concession, Democratic Party style.
TL;DR: you’re wrong and tired of trying to justify your false assumptions, so you try to preempt the logic conclusion that many have reached by implying that it’s wrong and/or or tedious.