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Bring back Flavio!

Oh duh, the car display thing. I was just thinking of the EPA rated range for some reason, which doesn't really seem possible for them to defraud with.

I forget that the car even displays that range on the display since I changed mine to percentage the day I got it.

And Tesla can obviously predict range well, since they do such a good job with the navigation predicted arrival range. That has always been spot on for, like predicting my arrival percentage with in a percent or two even when I'm like 2 hours away.

There's at least one company recycling EV batteries already, and that's even with the small amount of end-of-life batteries out there (most are still on the road): https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/heres-what-redwood-learned-in-its-first-year-of-ev-battery-recycling/

Recycled stuff gets dumped into some poor third world country.

That's definitely the case for low/zero value materials like plastics. But the materials in EV batteries are way too valuable to just throw away.

I didn't see it say that at all. I did see it say that they take every legal advantage they can to claim the absolute highest range possible; no matter how unrealistic that may be. Most other manufacturers don't do that, instead choosing to claim a more realistic range.

The EPA really need to rethink this range calculation crap. I don't understand why the manufacturers get so much freedom to choose the vehicle's range.

And that's a bad thing? Isn't the entire purpose of that government money to spur development? Seems like it is working as intended then?

There's no shortage of reasons to hate Elon, but using government subsidies for their intended purpose seems like a strange one.

But once it's out, it's out. It can then be recycled and reused "forever".

You extract oil once and burn it once; then that carbon is stuck in the atmosphere "forever". Now you have to extract more oil and do it all over again.

That's the big difference, EVs don't consume lithium; they borrow it.

He's not competing on the free market.

Those subsidies are exclusively available only to Elon's companies?

Come on, he's a massive douche; but Tesla/SpaceX are in the same market as all their competitors. They're not special, they just chose to do things others weren't. Why didn't GM build BEVs sooner to suck up all those subsidies? Why didn't ULA land their boosters to reduce launch costs and secure more launch contacts and grants?

What happens to lithium after it's mined? What happens to oil after it's mined?

There's no comparing how much worse ICEs are compared to EVs.

Seems like it's more so covering the costs of doing automated background checks or something like that. Like making sure you aren't on any bad lists so they can prevent you from arriving instead of having to deal with you when you're already there.

It's not technically a visa, Americans are still granted that upon arrival it seems.

If this was the 2016 season, then yeah it would make sense. Nico said himself that he hated how much of an asshole he had become trying to beat Lewis that year; hence why he retired immediately.

I thought Hungary has about as many overtakes as most street tracks

Don't forget Mazda with their MX-30 and its whole 100 miles of range