When I bought a one-year-old Toyota from a Toyota dealer, I was able to opt out of their data sharing. But it required creating a profile, downloading their app, and navigating to some buried preference settings. It was not intuitive. And I only knew about the problem because I also own a fairly new Chevrolet that had the same data sharing issue (and required similar opt-out steps).

And that is a problem. It should be an opt-in process that is presented when the vehicle ownership changes hands. And it shouldn't be something that a salesperson can just agree to with a two second explanation to the new owner.

You could power devices such as media hubs (ie, Fire Stick), cable boxes, game consoles, etc...

Depending on which direction(s) the power goes, you could also power monitors. One less cable. (eyes the trio of cables running into my monitor)

It makes a difference if you have a time-of-use energy plan. If you head to work or to bed, you can delay the start until an off-peak period kicks in.

Unfortunately, they're capacitance buttons. I found them terribly annoying to use. Same problem in the Kia EV6. You have to keep your eyes off the road for longer to ensure that you're pressing the button correctly.

Depends on how badly Stellantis continues to mess up the Jeep brand. Might be an opening for them in that market segment.

That's partly due to how NEVI categorized under-served communities. There were multiple qualifiers for such areas, and it was quite common for an under-served community to qualify for several. If being a tribal community was eliminated as a metric for being too "woke", there is a good chance that it might still qualify under the rural and low income metrics.

Such "bring your own" policies are limited to Level 2 AC charging where maximum current is limited to 63A (IEC 62196) or 80A (SAE J1772) and 400V.

The cable requirements for fast DC charging are much more demanding, where voltages can exceed 800V, current can exceed 300A, and where active cooling solutions may be utilized.

While the thought of an organized theft ring buying access to my family's Rosey and using it to scope my home out, surveil our comings and goings, and then disarming the alarm is rather terrifying, the more mundane issue is worrying that my $10K purchase turns into a brick in six months when the manufacturer goes bankrupt and their control servers go down.

"The underlying purpose of AI is to allow the wealthy to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth."

And we are paying the price of building our replacements through higher electricity bills, greater amounts of pollution, and general enshittification of the world.

That true to some degree for all new cars. Took me about a week to get used to the idiosyncrasies of my Bolt.

Can't rely on engine noises with a CVT, either.

That could just be a Tesla issue. Also, some EVs allow you to set the level of regenerative breaking. On my Bolt, with one pedal drive disabled, breaking is very similar to an ICE vehicle.

That's actually a legitimate complaint with public chargers. I hate sites that don't accept a payment card or that require an app on your phone. There is an industry standard called plug & charge that allows you to associate a payment card with your vehicle and everything is done on the back end, but it isn't ubiquitous yet.

That's on your rental company. Most folks who own an EV keep an adapter in the glove box or trunk.

Both Tesla issues. My Bolt just beeps if I open the door while in drive.

There are national security and economic interests in moving away from internal combustion engine vehicles. Look at the mess that happened when we involved ourselves in the Gulf War to protect our supply of oil. Look at the spike in inflation during the 1970s oil crisis and the 2022 energy crisis. Look at how climate change is affecting the cost of building and property insurance. Look at the blowback from Iran because the USA and the UK supported a coup against a democratically elected government that wanted to nationalize the country's oil sector.

Our dependency on oil has a destabilizing effect on the country and the world. It is in our interest to get off of oil as soon as possible. Which is why subsidies for electric vehicles are a good thing (and massive subsidies we currently give to the fossil fuel industry are not).

Ethanol fuel is incredibly energy intensive to produce and contributes to soil and water degradation. And when edible crops have to fight for space with fuel crops, prices tend to go up.

No/misleading. Half might be hybrids, but none of those are EV's.

If the vehicle has one or more electric motors that can propel the vehicle, then it is classified as an electric vehicle. It might be misleading as a marketing categorization, but it makes sense from a technical one.

Agreed. When people are one paycheck away from homelessness or starvation, they're ripe for manipulation if you can convince them that you'll solve those issues when elected, even if your promises are too good to be true. They'll tune everything else out, assuming that they were paying attention in the first place.

There is a solution. Reasonable pricing. No annoying DRM or marketplace agents. Buy once, own forever.

It is when media publishers try to tighten their grip, the more people slip away to the high seas.