Why doesn't the office parking lot have charging points? Is the US a third world country?

Why would you have to sit in a station to charge, when grocery stores can build chargers in their parking spaces?
This is already being solved in developed countries. I know people who fuel up their Plug-in hybrids twice a year, because their 30 mile range is enough to get them between work, the store and home, with options to charge at any of these locations.
Putting in a charger is not a big job.

Yeah, the infrastructure argument is such BS. The ICE ban means only sales of new cars, which in combination with the average age of cars in the EU means we'll still have ICE cars on our roads well into the 2040's if not 2050's. An ICE car sold in 2034, 9 years(!) from new will be halfway through its lifespan in 2045.
That means a child born today could buy a reasonable used ICE car for their first car in 20 years. I do not understand the "customer's choice" argument from this perspective at all. Like should we have NOT banned lead in gasoline because "customer's choice"? Sheesh.

For the sake of maintaining the fun, put in a small exception for tiny production runs of sub 1000 cars or something for manufacturers to create something for enthusiasts and hobbyists.

If people like manual gearboxes, why don't they buy them? BMW offers like 3 or 4 models with manual as an option, with the uptake rate between 15-65%, with the rate dropping the higher the performance of the car.

I fully agree that BMW has invested a lot in EVs and they have actually proven all the neysayers who claimed Tesla was going to replace them wrong.
What I don't agree with is this struggle to postpone the inevitable just because it means that their investments in ICE are going to become almost worthless, and thus will hit their balances. A CEO saying something should always be taken within context of who the intended audience is. And here I think the audience is the ICE-or-die crowd, and anyone looking at BMWs financial health from a view of the burden of old investments into what's about to become "legacy tech".

Full disclosure: I drive a manual BMW with a V8. I love it. I don't think they've ever made another as good as that one. So why keep trying? ;)

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Sorry, but your view of Europe is very skewed and NOT data-driven. It's only UK, Ireland, The Netherland and Belgium where that type of housing is the most common.
ALL other countries are dominated by housing types favorable to either public transit, or private parking with charing opportunities. Think detached houses with garage or parking, or multi-family homes with multi-car garages or parking lots.
For multi-family homes in the city centres of big cities, most of their residents probably don't have cars and use public transit.

From Eurostat:
For the European Union in 2020 (27 countries), there were 187 million occupied residential dwellings, of which 100 million were multi-family dwellings of at least 3 apartment. Two-dwelling buildings were 14,4 million, and single-family homes (including those pesky terrassed houses) clock in at 73,2 million.
Detached houses house 35% of the EU population, apartments house 48% and semi-detached (i.e duplexes and terrassed housing) house 16% of the population.

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Yes, because they intend to replace buses and metros with this... *rolleyes* It's more sustainable than people owning their own ICE cars, or renting them, for occasional travel where normal public transit isn't workable. Or for companies to shuttle a small number of employees or guests around town or corporate campus. More sustainable than other autonomous vehicles that only take 2 passengers (Tesla, Waymo). There are use cases for less than 50 seats, and we don't need fuel-burning private vehicles for those cases.

Iâ(TM)m suggesting that in a couple years, whatever you want to see will have charging options at location or on the way, and EVs will have range enough that you wonâ(TM)t have an issue driving a return trip anyway. And even if you did find a place with no electricity, you always have the option of renting an ICE car for that exotic trip. While enjoying the benefits of EVs the other 362 days a year. The main point is, moaning about a 30 minute charge (or two 15 minute charges or three 10 minute charges) over multiple hours worth of driving sounds ridiculous. Iâ(TM)ve done road trips of several thousand miles, and not once have I felt that I needed to drive for longer distances than an EV has range without stopping, especially since I was on vacation. Can we come up with some hugely elaborate itinerary and time plan that technically an EV canâ(TM)t do while an ICE car can? Sure. Are these trips ever realistic or enjoyable as vacation plans? Rarely.

If you're spending enough time of your vacation driving to be worried about the charging time, you're spending too much time of your vacation driving! Fast chargers will give you 4-5 hours of driving for 30 minutes charging.

Sell Indian-made and Vietnamese-made phones in the US, China-made ones elsewhere? Price accordingly. US tariffs don't hit products that aren't delivered there.

That part about CPU fallback running as well as GPU in 2008 is simply not true. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dsogaming.com%2Fnews...

PhysX prior to version 3 is locked to a single core, and was compiled with x87. It's horribly inefficient and not usable even on modern CPUs. From 100fps down to 13fps? The only option is to disable PhysX in games that use the 32-bit version, and thus forever changing how these games are experienced.

The savings universal healthcare will create by singelhandedly removing the need for a "health insurance industry" with the associated costs and their massive profits would be a good start.

If you took whatever you're paying for that insurance today, and what your employer is paying on their side and it was a tax instead, that'd easily cover your portion of the cost of universal healthcare and also the costs for those who are not covered today.

Health insurance costs Americans more than a tax for universal healthcare. This has been calculated so many times over.

But Americans prefer to pay more for their healthcare to make sure other's can't have some.

Look up Land Value Tax/Georgism.
Basically tax land by value, disregarding whatâ(TM)s built on it. Means itâ(TM)s hugely wasteful to have land not doing anything, especially in areas of high demand.

This is a big improvement.
Now make retail establishments show prices with taxes before you go to pay.
It makes no sense that I have to know the what local state/city/county sales taxes are, that's the job of the store I'm in.

If I see the same product for cheaper across the street I should NEVER end up paying more because of a city limit between the stores.

Hidding taxes and fees until you go to pay is anti-consumer.

The summary says no such thing. It says the estimates for this proposed new tunnel is $20 trillion.
The Channel Tunnel project cost a total of roughly £23 billion (2023 GBP) which is about $29 billion, i.e. 0.15% of the cost of this proposed tunnel.

Now, even considering that, it will absolutely not be a feasible project and would never recoup the investment. Ever.

We are better off spending $2 trillion into e-fuel for airliners, hypersonic travel, battery-technology and other ways to reduce emissions and speed it up.

Getting people exclusively from London to New York super quickly will have very little benefit for anyone not within an hour or two of each terminus.

Then you unlock the screen.
The idea is that if someone snatches your phone from your hand they wonâ(TM)t have access to the unlocked phone.

Because the 100 million was not just coffee but all beverages AND food, both free and discounted.