Ah, another difference in language use. I forgot to specify 'pickup trucks', which are the vehicles with an attached open bed. Overwhelmingly owned by private citizens in the USA.
They are mostly used just like cars here, though online they all insist they're towing a trailer off road 2000 miles every weekend, that is why they need a 'truck'.
The extra power demand for fast charging the larger beast, demand for towing range, and tremote operation means hybrid is the best option at the moment. Or at least should be a common option.
Trucking businesses would be operating 'semis', which have the boot in back to take a trailer.
Making them EV is complicated because the size means fast charging is a huge power draw, the infrastructure is not there. So EV for the in-city daily shorthaul stuff, where it is parked in the same lot every night. Long haul can stay diesel for nonaval.
Self driving might change stuff up more.

At the very least, being an attractive nuisance, where even if the initial ad placement is legal, it serves illegal content enough to be a problem.

The problem with this is that google is often the alternative and can be just as bad.
There's a documented case out there where during COVID, when doctor's offices were mostly shut down, where the parents ended up taking a picture of the baby's rash (yes, in that area), and emailing it to the doctor's office.

Somehow Google's automated child porn detection systems flagged this, it was reported to the police who opened an investigation, then closed the file when it was realized that: 1. It was sent to a pediatrician office, 2. Yes, baby had a rash, 3. It was COVID, so office working remotely. This worked long enough for the family to get the appropriate cream for the baby, but google also closed down the man's accounts and marked him as a nasty banned pedophile.
I never did hear if he got that resolved.

Very much not in the USA confirmed.

Okay, 50% of the battery is sort of true - though 60-70% can be standard. Charging doesn't typically slow because you've charged the battery 50% of it's capacity, it is because charging slows at around 80% total charge, depending on exact chemistry. IE it slows not after charging 50% in a single session, but upon reaching ~80% full.

10% to 80% is going to take longer than from 10% to 50%, but it will still be fast. It's just that that extra 30% isn't going to allow skipping the next charging station, so why bother?

As such, only needing 50% more charging sessions, is still possible. By math it'd actually be closer to 30%.

Now, if you look at an unladed truck with 500 miles range vs a 300 mile EV, that's where you start needing to stop a lot more often, but again, remember I'm advocating trucks be hybrids and cars going EV first.

No, there are plenty of reason why a politician should be signing NDAs. The politicians need to know what will be happening in the future so that they to decisions for that now. To get that information they need info from companies about their plans, and the NDAs just prevent the politicians from making that information public or even profiting from that knowledge(see nancy Pelosi)

Never going to be as good as when Halley Berry called the people a bunch of racists, by pointing out their actions, and then they all stood up and clapped.

Your mentioning having slow chargers at destinations, such as offices, is actually a potential solution to apartments being slow about installing charging capacity, or being too expensive about it.
Have people charge at work, not home, in such cases.
The workplace will probably want reasonable rates, many already cover parking for their employees, and with solar power ever expanding, daytime power might actually become cheaper than nighttime.
For areas with actual parking lots, imagine covering the lot with solar panels. Help keep cars cool and clean, not snow covered, etc... While charging them up.
Might not work as well in the extreme north, but not all of the USA is that far north.

I don't remember the last time I visited a gas station in the United States that didn't have pay at the pump available. I'm sure there are some janky stations out there, but not many.

Plus, at least in the USA, refueling one of our 300 mile ranged EVs is only maybe 50% more often than a gasoline vehicle - you don't want to go under 10% in a gasoline vehicle anyways, but while full is not a problem with ICE, with an EV you probably want to stick to around 80% most of the time to avoid the charging slowdown (upcoming tech may change this). 30% is probably closer. IE if you need to fill up 10 times with an ICE vehicle on a trip, with an EV it'd be 13 charging stops.

Plus or minus some accounting for placement of towns and charging/fuel stations.

That's only about 60 miles difference,

I've said before that the upcoming bans were more aspirational than effective, placed far enough in the future that when things didn't go as rosy as predicted (which itself should be predictable), that they'd modify them.
Examples include:
1. Expanding the qualifying vehicles, like including HEVs in the same category as EVs
2. Pushing deadlines back
3. Lowering percentages.

We already fixed overpopulation. Birthrate is at 1.7 and falling, 2.1 is replacement.

Turns out "1st world lifestyle" is plenty effective birth control. As the world becomes more prosperous, birthrates fall.

It is very different in the bar. There you can have a debate, question and clarify. With a podcast, you cannot.

According to the NZ EFTPOS site there is a rental fee for the machine, if not purchased. Then there is a monthly usage fee based on the size of the company.
If the customer then uses a credit card or similar there are additional fee charged by both EFTPOS and the credit card company.
Debit cards do have a fee but it is lower than credit cards so stores merchants have that fixed into the cost.
In the USA some store will still take checks, cheques, and it is no additional cost.

Was the part something the owner made and installed or was it a part he purchased through the normal commercial supply chain?
If in the supply chain how common are 3d printed parts now for things like plane, autos, and even house hold repair?

You are thing about things using the older definition of ultraprocessed. The current definition widly used are foods that havebeen affect by processes not found in the common home or with "little or no whole food and typically include flavorings, colorings, emulsifiers, and other cosmetic additives." With whole foods being ingredients that have little or no processing.
So going by your yogurt. Whole fat yogurt = whole food; low-fat yogurt = processed, yogurt with jam or flavoring = ultra-processed.
However your sauerkraut = procesed, if you can and pastureize it becomes ultraprocessed because you need to add extra salt to keep flavor.

I presume you're referring to the 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal? I'll point out this was something perpetrated by the Chinese industry, not American. It was knowingly covered up with the complicity of the Chinese government to prevent it from embarrassing the ongoing Olympics. Only when the scandal became impossible to cover up did the CCP take any action.

As of December 2025, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and former Mayor London Breed have both expressed praise for China and the relationship between San Francisco and Chinese cities.