• Not everyone has the budget to openly spend 20K plus on a new vehicle, which means lower demand
• Since not everyone will just buy a new car, companies need to make as much money per unit sold which means luxury cars make more sense These points together should make sense. They are marketing to people that have a lot of disposable income. If they have a lot of disposable income, they probably want a luxurious car. People with 200k+ annual salaries want to keep up with the Johnses so a 20k EV car they can easily afford doesn't look as cool compared to their neighbor's 80k+ car. So they want a 80k+ car with all the bells and whistles.

The reason we stop China is not related to supply and demand so much as stopping companies that China has given unfair advantages to. If BYD was making cars without signifcant Chinese subsidies, then yes I would be bothered by these tariffs as well.

WTF Are we the baddies?

I mean the tech is still new as well as the point that SSJMarx mentioned. To add to the list of reasons to make expensive version of cars first:

• New tech is more expensive usually
• Not everyone has the budget to openly spend 20K plus on a new vehicle, which means lower demand
• Since not everyone will just buy a new car, companies need to make as much money per unit sold which means luxury cars make more sense
• additionally lowering demand is the fact that not everyone wants an EV or feels comfortable driving them (due to its different fueling method)

I do expect that over time manufactures will begin to release cheaper EVs over time that are aimed for average consumers.

whoa this looks cool

The main issue is that China seems to subsidize BYD quite a bit more than other countries do. In addition, this seems to match China's general policy of finding ways to give its own companies advantages in foreign markets, while limiting the equivalent from other countries

You're correct, but what I was, not clearly, talking about is increasing the incentives so its easier for people to purchase electric vehicles. You do bring up a good point that fossil fuel subsidies should also be reduced to better reflect its true costs.

My understanding is that the subsidize are to also encourage american manufacturing which those companies you listed satisfy. These subsidies are incentives for manufacturers rather than buyers, as it encourages these companies to change their manufacturing process which would lead to reduced costs.

What would be the alternative? China is no releasing numbers to how much they subsidize BYD, I doubt BYD would want to be that transparent either.

From my point of view the US could either wait, try to study and figure out the puzzle for how much China subsidizes BYD in order to come up with a good tariff amount, all while China still accomplishes its goals, or they can put tariffs now and make adjustments later. For all we know, 100% tariff may be too low, we don't know for certain.

Let me know if there's a better plan that's being talked about.

Because China is not fairly competing with other countries. They are subsidizing BYD manufacturing and supply chain with the goal of making BYD the largest electric car company in the world. Yes, their vehicles would probably still be cheaper than other manufactures even before subsidies (Lower cost of living in china, ignoring of fair wages, ignoring of environmental concerns all reduce costs), but they are unfairly trying to make the world reliant on their products.

That being said, i do agree with your sentiments that we should be making it easier to purchase electric cars. Providing additional discounts or high turn in credit for returning your current gas car would be appreciated so that we can actually make progress on reducing global warming.

??? China has literally been subsidizing BYD to help it to beat out foreign manufactures and to make it competitive in foreign markets. So yeah, there may be some protectionism involved, but there is definitely an argument that China is unfairly subsidizing BYD, making it impossible for rival companies to compete.

https://electrek.co/2024/04/12/china-gave-byd-an-incredible-3-7-billion-to-win-the-ev-race/

Trick question? he seemingly switched to a D after voting for Trump in 2016.

I don't know why either, but in I heard the same thing: more women tend to care not about the environment than men. Anecdotally, a lot of environmental related stores > and groups I go to are a majority women attended or assumed at women.

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For real that's my understanding. I think even small arms munitions as well.

Can't provide input on very bulky items, but It seems you don't use panier bags or s front basket. Those helped me do much with most items. Some slightly bulky items as well. Add some old tires tubes (free ones with holes from bicycle shops) and I can hold a lot of things.

Kamala posted sections of the full video, of course showing the bad comments from Vance. Trump posted only once section, but says watch the full video, while claiming all Kamala and her team do is lie. I'm actually trying to find the full speech and can't. Pretty annoying since you know Trumpers will say Kamala is lying

Probably using a group chat or something. I can't imagine he personally knows all 50 of these guys tbh. I hope not at least for the reasons you indicated.

There's Nazi's there, need to be dealt with

Deadlock is really great. I like to go to the enemy base and try to 1v6 people repeatedly. I get angry when my team tries to help or pings me to do mid boss, urn or kill creeps.

It logs you out? that's annoying. I've logged in with the above command. As Emil mentioned, you can log in in offline mode then switch to online mode.

What do you mean by this?

If she does the "now that I'm in office I'm going to start trying to find out if I can do anything" that Biden did tho. We'll get nothing accomplished with those 2 years and lose one or both in midterms.

Damn bro, all part of her plan, she's going to let you down even harder this time! Jk

Interesting. I think I would agree with you that going straight to a university is more expensive, than doing a CC first. It may add additional time to your schooling, but I think its worth it, depending on the costs for the university. I think I would still say even if going through the majors you mentioned, a CC is a better way to go as well unless you have a lot of money, whether from family, or grants, or scholarships.

I mean we're still not certain if that's true. We know that plastic is now everywhere because degradation, but I don't think we know how damaging it is, if at all (i doubt its non damaging but who knows) In addition, burning could still be worse. Time will tell

Im not certain I get the method of extracting energy after resding the article, is it saying we throw in mass and catch the radiation emitted from it? How very interesting

Social events like bars and raves are an option. You'll find people who just want to get shit faced, but also social people. Volunteer work has a lot of people you can interact with and eventually become friends with. Game places are another option as mentioned. Video games as well. If you have a dog, parks are a way to start conversations and meet people.

Budgeting is very important. some people like the 20% of income for saving, 30% for living expenses and the other 50% for everything else. Pre or post tax is up to you as this is a rule of thumb. Important part is that it should be easy for you to build up your savings to cover important expenses. spending 50% of income on housing may be really bad since having back to back years of badluck can screw over your savings, and not give you enough time to save up in between.

This is a general rule that applies when you make enough to do so. If you're struggling to pay rent, do what you can to remove risk and cut down on costs. One thing that helps is aiming to have savings. Often times, its cheaper to have money up front to resolve emergencies rather than later.

Car is one of those things that can make sense to remove. If you're commuting one hour already by car, and there's no public transit option then a car is a necessity. If you can take public transit, that could save you money on car insurance, car payments, car maintenance, and possible accidents.

To add to this advice, Soylent is a similar food replacement type product. THere are other similar brands that I'm not familiar with at the moment, but those can be some possible options to try if you haven't already.

I suppose it really depends on needs. I don't know whether people would really be needing to ride 150 miles in a single charge. You're correct about myself not riding motorcycles, which is why I asked. by carrying dead weight I meant having to deal with the bulkiness and lack of flexibility with motorcycles. You don't usually carry around a motorcycle nor an ebike, but being able to take it into buildings with you to hide it would be some nice flexibility. Ebikes aren't lightweight either, but compared to a emoto they are.

Drive less would best the recommendation. Though I feel this doesn't directly help yourself so much as everyone.

why an e motorcycle over an electric bike? I feel the disadvantages are worse: its heavier, larger and requires more time to fully charge. Sure its faster, can probably get your further, and can carry heavier things, but every time you're not using those aspects, the disadvantages are more pronounced. Can't fully charge the battery due to slow charging with whatever you can muster up? will now you're just carrying dead weight.

Will there be nice roads that you know are safe for you to drive fast on? Maybe, again you may be carrying deadweight otherwise.

If you're not using it to carry large/heavy items, again you're riding around in dead weight.

My understanding is that it stems from various combinations of plastic trash, contaminating our ecosystem. So a plastic lined container (nearly any disposable container) is bad because it will contain microplastics in its conents, and also, as it degrades in the trash, will release more microplastics.

I'm very surprised. I kept my out for the last 3ish years. Let me know if you try them again. I'm wondering if that was a fluke bad purchase? Hope its not quality degredation

I think it's brutal for the target audience: Trump. Most normal people would probably not care about this campaign type. But Donny is a snowflake. Thanks for the vid!

The rueters one doesn't indicate anything about Trump talking to Bibi and discouraging him from setting up a peace deal.

PIA wiper blades are pretty amazing. They've lasted me close to 6 years now I think. Way more price efficient than regular wipers.

You should have left the freeway... There's a lot of things in la other than freeways.

The Title is just the website. No idea what this is supposed to be.

Yes. We've had a history of being car centric, but in the last 20 years we've been pushing public transit a lot more. I think we have one of the largest light rail systems in the world actually. I believe a Texas city is now on top for most car centric