So where is electricity 50 cents a KWHr, is it Texas or California? NY or FL? Not a whole lotta Trump supporters in CA or NY, for example.

Here's a handy chart of electricity costs in the fifty US states

Land for solar panels is kind of important.

Lots of island nations rely on roofs for collecting rain water (fresh water is hard on an island, the water surrounding island nations is salt water), and houses on islands are typically much smaller, and have much smaller yards than we are used to in a place like the US.

"Banker class"? I'm old enough to remember when Three Mile Island happened - remember the carnage, the deaths, the environmental damage when TMI "melted down"? Of course you don't, because it didn't happen - that was a Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, and Jack Lemon movie called "China Syndrome" tat forever emboldened the environmentalists to organize a "No Nukes" concert and challenge every application to build a nuclear power plant.

You need way, way more "high speed chargers" than there currently are gas stations or even gas pumps - EVs into the forseeable future will require about a half hour to charge a mostly-discharged EV battery vs 5 minutes at a gas pump.

Yeah, "capitalism" won't allow the rollout of cell towers where there are no people... Cell towers are expensive, cell companies put them where they can recoup the investment.

Almost - being from the government they have no need to chase "tax deductible" trips - governments dont pay taxes, they collect taxes.

Vatican City generates is/will be 100% Solar Electricity - they don't need to fly to Columbia and talk about turning off their diesel generators or coal-fired power plants.

The list includes the "European Union", then it lists all the member countries of the EU...

What, after pissing thru 1,000 KM of continuous driving (651 miles), why would I want to spend more than, say, 7 minutes outside the car before driving another 1,000 KM (651 Mi)?

When I drive my ICE vehicle it PAINS me to stop every 500 miles to refill my 30 gallon gas tank! I don't have time to just stand around after 8 hours of driving!

LOL

Teslas have a navigation app that tells you how many open chargers there are at all nearby Tesla supercharging stations, that they blindly just showed-up hoping for an open charger is something they chose to do, they could have just used the app.

"This thing" is two different things - one is a high-capacity, light-weight "thing," the other is a quick-charging "thing."

They are describing two different battery technologies, each optimized for a different application...

But, of course, it's NOT TRUE. They are describing two different battery technologies:

1) one technology that can charge very, very quickly (10%-98% in 7 minutes!), with no mention of capacity, and

2) a different technology that weighs less than other battery technologies for a given capacity that can run an EV up to 1,000 KM, with no mention of charge time.

That makes no sense - we don't know the capacity of the fast-charge battery, and we don't know the charge time of the long-range battery. And the cost of the battery pack is a huge part of most EV pricing, putting two full-capacity but different battery technologies in one car would adds thousands and thousands to the sales price and would push vehicle weight to new, unbelievable, heights.

Putting two batteries in an EV makes as much sense as putting both a diesel and a gasoline engine in a vehicle, because 'one's good for long-haul driving', the other runs on cheaper gasoline and better for 'start-stop' driving in, say, a city-setting.

Well, it's either AI 'slop' or a horrible translation from Chinese...

So they've been mis-handling drone-delivered packages for 18 months now in several states, and only now we're hearing about the 'horrors' of an item in a plastic bottle breaking on 'drop-off'? If this were as big an issue as the submitter and editor want us to believe it is, why did it take so long to be reported on?

I suspect this has been much more successful than this article would lead you to believe.

(I expect a lot of the deliveries might be books, which aren't likely to suffer so much from a 10 foot drop...)

A nonsensical, impossible claim - do you really claim the flash memory in the car stores *every* waypoint the car ever travels? It makes no sense, the data retained would be enormous. The linked to article shows four or five data points per second, extrapolate that over the life of the vehicle and you quickly realize it's impossible.

I think what the system retains are what it considers "important" datapoints, like impacts, when warnings are made to the driver, and when errors are detected. It also makes sense the computer might store the last so-many hours of location information, but that's it.

Presumably the crash the "discovered" was the final event that caused the EV to wind up in the junkyard in Poland.

Are really going to start yelling about 'big brother' because on-board GPS systems retain previous locations?