n2burns

Eh, we Canadians officially use L/100km, which just make so much more sense to compare fuel efficiency. MPG can be so misleading.

Your council works too slowly. Here's the fix:

The first mobile cost about $4000

I said a decade ago, not the very first. I also should have said "smartphone". Powering cars by battery isn't a brand new technology.

The original cars cost 30k adjusted for inflation with the cheapest today costing around 15.

I was responding to a meme that said $15K, not $15K (inflation adjusted).

Sure, hate capitalism all you want, but it’s the system we live in

As pointed out in the first paragraph of the article, "Lakota Language Consortium" is a nonprofit organization. While NPOs operate in our capitalist system, you expect them to have goals besides pure profit.

100% agree! I'm wondering if I should have clarified in my original comment that $15K EVs might be possible without ridiculous subsidies, but they aren't going to have a 350mi range.

Electric vehicles are expected to be cheaper than ICE cars.

I completely agree, especially if people can get away from the BS "I need 350mi of range." Better charging will hopefully help with this.

I just don't see the price coming down fast enough for a 350mi range EV to be sold for $15,000 vs inflation. At 2% inflation, $15K in 10 years is $12,305.22 today, in $15K in 5 years is $13,585.96 today.

this is a notebook with an Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz (2 cores, 4 threads) with 8 GB RAM and installing and upgrading on xubuntu 23.10 was already really, painfully slow.

Have you put an SSD in there, or are you still running on spinning rust? In my experience, even a cheap SSD will make a huge difference.

I'm just not sure what your argument is. Since the US practices unfair trade in one industry, China should be allowed to in other industries? I don't know if you missed this lesson in second grade, but, "Two wrongs don't make a right."

I'm Canadian, so I'm well versed in softwood lumber dispute. However, we're talking about EVs.