#Transportation / Electric Cars

[unbfacts]

In 1900, 40% of cars in America were steam-powered, 38% electric, and 22% gasoline, reflecting a time when electric vehicles were still highly competitive in the automotive market.

[nando161mando]

[itsbenedict]

Do you have a source for the Brazilian courts demanding personal information of the posters? I haven't been following the story very closely, but everything I've seen has only talked about censorship, which Mush already did for Turkey last year.

I haven't been following it closely either- I'm just going off this post, by someone I don't know and whose objectivity I distrust. They claim that the new Brazilian government had a Jan 6-style failed coup attempt by their far right, and that their Supreme Court ruled that the social media platforms the participants used to coordinate the attempt were required to hand over all their information about the attackers so they could be prosecuted. Purportedly, Musk said no, this obviously violated the laws that said he had to do it, and there is now a legal snafu of some sort.

I don't expect OP to have been lying about most of this, because they're arguing that the demands were justified- but I also can't find a source on that specifically, yeah. The news stories I'm seeing only mention that they demanded that some number of users' accounts should be suspended due to "spreading misinformation". I'm not sure if the link between the riots (which happened) is as direct as OP is implying, but it seems plausible.

Regardless, communications platforms should not be legally liable for speech hosted on them, and even though the rioters in question probably should be arrested, demanding that Twitter be involved in this process and taking retaliatory action against them for noncompliance is- and I believe this is the technical term- "some real bullshit".

If web platforms can be held responsible for anything any government decides is "misinformation", then you have a serious problem the next time you get a Bolsonaro. You don't want Twitter to cave to these sorts of orders. This was the correct move.

...And, as you note, the move Musk did not make when Erdogan demanded the same thing in 2023. One would hope that this is him regretting that decision and opting to do better this time, but more realistically he's just less principled than he likes to think and makes these decisions mainly on the basis of culture war grudges and how personally pissed off he happens to be today.

[jensorensen]

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[coolishfoolishness]

Gonna start being conservative but in a way that would piss off real conservatives.

All the music today is pop trash! Back in the day we used to listen to real music like Nina Simone and Chuck Berry (the real king)!

Fuck electric cars! We should go back to using railroads like God intended! We used to be a real country!

Sick of this woke blm crap! Bring back the Black Panthers!

[national-rail]

i don't care how comfortable your car is it's ultimately unsustainable

[scrumptiousbeardturtle-blog1]

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[megkuna]

i know op doesn't know any better probably but seeing PR on there makes me so irrationally angry. like yes. $10 wage could help u afford a 2br apartment HOWEVER wait until u get ur $200 electricity bill and u don't even have AC + $100 for water for god knows what reason. also u want eggs? fuck u. $7 for a dozen

[netscapenavigator-official]

The Honda CR-V e:FCEV (horrendous name, btw) is actually a really smart car, and I feel like if an automaker had done it sooner, it really could’ve made Hydrogen take off (or at least not die so pathetically.)

It is kinda funny (and somewhat ironic) that this car has been announced MONTHS after Shell announced they’d be shutting down all of their Hydrogen refueling stations, essentially crippling the infrastructure even further. Not to mention, Toyota currently being sued by Mirai owners for the lack of enough refueling stations to reliably use the car. What an L from Honda… again.

Also, a PS: It’s even funnier that Honda and Toyota have consistently pushed FCEVs as their Zero Emission Vehicle of choice, despite neither automakers being willing to invest any amount into hydrogen refueling infrastructure.

When automakers were mandated to make EVs in 1997, they put in their own chargers. There are even some old G.M. EV1 MagneChargers out and still functional. When Tesla debuted the Model S in 2012, they started their own Superhcarger network. When Toyota and Honda want to release FCEVs, though… they sit around wondering who’s gonna build all the infrastructure for them, for free. What a joke.

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[nando161mando]

Big rigs should not be driverless WTF

[celineszoges]

BEATLES -- Here Come the Sun Cars

[aldaraaj101]

E-bike QiCYCLE C2

[blusandbirds]

fuck the sekai taikai fuck everything else, what i really want from season 6 is a return of their little matching bestie scooters. where they at?

[rage-against-the-cistem]

why do disabled people have to pay for public transportation??? Most can't drive or don't own a car.

the veterans here (and even working army officers) get a discount on the ticket and the elderly don't pay, why do we have to be excluded???