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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by bumby on Sunday September 27, 2020 @09:34AM (#24606490)
>linking "Rural" to the right to drive a pickup is still a bit cringeworthy IMO.

Can you please show where this point was stated? It seems like you are reading between the lines too much and straw manning.

The point is that “urban” by the definition used to create the statistic in the argument is a very broad term and this makes it difficult to draw good generalizations.

I don’t think a claim for “needing personal transportation with a large range” should be equated to “must be using pickups as commuter vehicles”

Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by woodpanel on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:51PM (#24609611)
Can you please show where this point was stated?

Sure:

but smaller, lighter, and slower vehicles are a viable option for most American as a response to So much of what is toxic about cars and car culture could be fixed by downsizing and slowing them. […] I wish north america would fully get on board with these small EVs

Not much of a strawman to me, rather good old urbanite-intellectual disregard for the life-styles/social classes driving these big vehicles.

makes it difficult to draw good generalizations. Agreed, which is why I would refrain to claim that 80% of Americans live in areas with a density above 50k. As the census noted, this is clearly not the case if e.g. Staten Island has a density of 8k.

Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by bumby on Sunday September 27, 2020 @08:05PM (#24611380)
Ah ok, I think you meant to respond to the comment one level up. Regardless, thanks for clarifying