The North American fight against cheap Chinese EVs, explained

[testerone]

But who ever buys cars based on need besides commercial vehicles?
We call buy what we want, what we like best.

And the stupid thing is that with the avarage family having only one or two kids, they're pushing the vehicles that carry 6,7,8,9 people, as those are more profitable. Modernize and electrify the Datsun 510 or original Honda Civic to get to work, go to school. get groceries.

[al_keda]

The best transition option is not to need a car in the 1st place.

Yea, but that should have happened decades ago. Our cities are not designed for mass transit.

The more I ride my bike around, the more I see that people don't understand things that aren't car based.

[Dr Strangelove]

Cities made TODAY are still not made for mass transit:



There are only now correcting the mistake of not investing in viable mass transportation links and this is with a country with a far higher population density. This isn't rocket science either, designing cities with proper manufacturer never is but we have a systemic bias baked into our industry towards cars. However, it can be corrected just as people ride on the left in the UK, laws can be conducive to change in culture.

What will happen with climate change is a clean sweep of old ideas and practices will force the culture to change and THEN laws will follow. New cities will spring up out of a necessity to do so. A collapsing supply chain will compound the need for change.

[testerone]

The best transition option is not to need a car in the 1st place.

Yea, but that should have happened decades ago. Our cities are not designed for mass transit.

The more I ride my bike around, the more I see that people don't understand things that aren't car based.

But plans for things like that are called 15 minute cities and hated even more by the right wingers. How dare you suggest they can't drive down your block?

[al_keda]

The best transition option is not to need a car in the 1st place.

Yea, but that should have happened decades ago. Our cities are not designed for mass transit.

The more I ride my bike around, the more I see that people don't understand things that aren't car based.

But plans for things like that are called 15 minute cities and hated even more by the right wingers. How dare you suggest they can't drive down your block?

If right wingers hate it, then it must be a good idea and should be implemented immediately.

And I'm not suggesting they aren't allowed on my street, I am commenting on how they see, to be performing. They literally can't follow posted directions. They go the wrong way around the little roundabout on the street. "One Way" and "=--->" seem to be new concepts. They tell me to get my bike off the street, and I point to the sign that shows bikes and cars 'single file'. It's not difficult.

At least once a week I have to take emergency manoeuvres when some car doesn't look both ways when rolling through a stop sign.

I really wish they would make electric scooters legal here. Those seem so much safer to drive on the streets.

[testerone]

Years ago we stopped to buy smokes at a 7-11 in Vancouver. Parked beside this huge jacked 4x4 pickup that towered over our SUV and the wife was looking it over. The owner came up sneering and snapped 'what are YOU looking at".
She calmly looked him in the eye and answered that we lived a couple hours outside Prince George and could actually USE a truck like that. Smiled and added that she could get to Costco even in the winter.

Went down there to look at EVs last month, but the only ones there cost more than a quarter section around here!