See, I don't wear driving gloves so that's not a problem.

Dead batteries will de-magnetize your credit cards and give your psycho ex your current phone number.

Right? Even if the storage issue were solved and nuclear was somehow safe it's also losing out to solar/wind/batteries now strictly on economics. It's becoming a whole new market where power generation and storage can be done very small scale with home solar being so cheap. Nuclear is old fashioned because it's still just massive grid generation. Power is getting democratized beyond that now.

It's easy to feel all wise-to-the-game having your "wake up, sheeple!" moment when you're only arguing against the strawmen you created.

I know people like to say "EVs won't do much to curb climate change" but the rise of renewables owes a lot to the rise of EVs. Tech advances in batteries and a major ramp up in battery production and supply is a major ripple effect. It's like how oil's dominance as an energy source helped create products like polymers and all variety of synthetic products.

I dare say we would not have such a dramatic rise in renewable energy without the corresponding rise in EVs. That put it over the top from "I guess this is what we have to do but we won't like it" to "holy crap! I gotta get in on the ground floor of this renewable gold rush."

I've been told that "dead" EV batteries go to landfills where they leak lead into groundwater. Are you saying that's BS? /s

> Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

Eric Hoffer

Low on chips, major typewriter manufacturer gets rid of LCD screens that preview what you type before printing to page. Rather than develop a proper iPad competitor that could utilize newer chips that actually have good supply the typewriter company is "going back to basics."