Yeah, we definitely need both of those to become viable alternatives. But I’m even more excited about the possibility of a solid state battery E-Bike tbh.

This represents a dramatic improvement if they can get this working. Like improved capacity and charge times are the main thing, but SSBs are also lighter (reducing tire particulate emission,) require less rare metals (like cobalt,) have dramatically reduced fire risk (which is a huge factor for some people,) and have potential applications in other fields (e.g. smartphones and stuff.) It looks like the tech Toyota is going to be using to make these (presumably for way cheaper than everyone else) is hella patented (they’ve gotten OVER 8000 patents since 2020.) They’ll probably still be piloting these things at way too expensive for everyone, but it’ll be interesting to watch this, cause if they can get a fully SSB EV in the price range of a reasonable consumer, that could represent a serious tipping point in the car market.

I am ashamed to say that I didn’t even see that. That’s lithium (or possibly cobalt.)

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Yeah, the main advantage of cars is that they do a lot of things (kinda badly.) We need to do a lot of work to replace cars, and that work definitely doesn’t start with ignoring why cars are so prevalent. We need to empower people through other avenues a lot before most people will switch over.

Yeah, reducing car usage would be much better for all handicapped people (those who can drive get better traffic.)

I see a lot of people saying build up not out, but you still need a place without houses to build denser housing (parking oceans should be place #1). I would keep way more of the green space than they do (and add in some community gardens?), but this might be a good option depending on the surrounding (sub)urban context. Its certainly not a good option for every (or probably most) golf course, but its going to be the best option sometimes.

Yeah, special commercial zoning, if we can’t eliminate restrictions on small businesses in neighborhoods entirely, which should be the end goal. But yeah we desperately need anything we can get.

Yeah, banks aren’t amazing, but from what I’m seen, whatever bs they pull is like the thing least wrong with the American financial system. It at least makes sense.