Yet here you are, typing your oh-so-clever response on a device that will be superseded in the near future by something better. You are capable of better arguments than this.

If people wanted to fuck about trying to make nuclear work the way the Wright brothers did with aviation, I wouldn't care. But instead, they want to spend huge amounts of public money over many decades, privatise the revenues (not profits, there aren't any) and socialise the losses, while also running significant risks that affect everyone, and sucking money away from renewables.

Nuclear power is like communism for its proponents - it’s never been tried properly. But all the improper tries add up to quite the track record of failure

You provided all the evidence I needed right there in your response to this story

That would have a been a classier response!

Have you even listened to yourself? You sound ridiculous, like an old man shaking his stick at the heavens and quavering indignantly. You don’t *want* to believe this, because you prefer to believe that solar is “not the answer”, and so any facts that contradict this must be false or they threaten your worldview.

EVs are flexible. If you want to charge every night, you absolutely can. Many people start off doing just htat. After a while, they figure out that they can take the bug out their ass about charging, and just charge up every 10 days or so. I’ve had EVs for 10 years, and only once in all that time have I not had enough charge on leaving the house because I forgot to plug in the night before. What I did was drive to a nearby fast charger and plug in for 10 minutes, then drove on to my destination and just plugged in when I got home.

It’s like EVs can be driven really aggressively if you want, stamping your foot on the accelerator at every set of lights, but also allow you to drive like a 90 year old granny but super smoothly if you prefer, with the gentlest possible acceleration and coasting to a halt. There’s no one fixed way to charge or drive an EV. It’s a different mindset, and flexibility is key

You know much more about this than me! Glad to hear that granny cables are much safer than I realised

There will be better tech anyway, because the tech has much headroom for improvement and competition is fierce.

Yes, in the US, you’d need to charge an EV about once every five days instead of once every 10. However, that’s not really due to the larger size of the US, and is more to do with how roads are designed in the US vs Europe. You have to drive a lot further for short journeys than we do. My local supermarket is less than half a mile away. So I can walk (and avoid driving entirely) or it’s a very short drive. Not true for most US citizens.

Hah! Good luck with your decisions. Don't tell him who owns Dacia!!

You've never expressed any concern for them. You've done your best to articulate reasons why people should not drive EVs, and never once acknowledged that governments have to balance interests when making policy, and that the interests of ICE drivers need to be weighed against the interests of everyone susceptible to harms from climate change and tailpipe emissions (which is, of course, absolutely all of us), which is why the bans on new ICE sales are being introduced.

I 'quit' LinkedIn years ago, it's signal to noise ratio was getting too high. It contained far too many articles sporting click-bait titles but simply rehashing common sense information that most should already know and recruiters that would pester anyone that posted comments anywhere and seemed employable. About the only good part was the ability to easily follow fellow team members after they found new jobs.

Never missed it once ....

If you want everyone to be considered, you could start by considering all the people who die of respiratory conditions linked to tailpipe emissions, add in the ones dying of CVD, Alzheimers, etc from emissions, then add the ones harmed by noise pollution from IC engines, then the people who live in low-lying countries that are suffering inundation from rising sea waters or increasingly frequent and vicious wildfires, floods, hurricanes, etc etc.

Honestly, I try to be patient when i interact with you, but your demands for consideration of the inconvenience you will putatively suffer at some point in the future when you buy a vehicle and only have either a new EV or a 2nd hand ICEV to pick from, while you simultaneously refuse to acknowledge the massive and extensive harms caused by your use and other people's use of IC engines is just a bit fucking much, sometimes.

Oh, you were indeed referring to a granny cable. Yep, true. But those are a rarity, it's a bit risky to repeatedly do a full charge of an EV off a domestic socket rather than a dedicated domestic charger. That's why granny cables have that name -- the odd time you get to granny's house and charge off a domestic socket instead of a proper charger