Elon needs to go, EV adoption is an important goal for species survival, he’s actively damaging those goals now - even if he did help kick off the revolution he’s now more net negative than positive as a CEO.
If we're talking about the species' survival, I sure hope we can adopt a broader vision than taking a land-hungry and energy-intensive mode of transport, and changing nothing about it except for making it run on batteries.
"This doesn't work for literally everyone so let's do this other thing that isn't as good"
There is no one-shot solution, motorized vehicles are not going away, but switching to EV is an absolute must.
Outside of the US there is still a legitimate fear of range anxiety made worse by Musk's announcement.
It seems to me that widespread deployment of hybrids where 95% of daily driving is done on batteries is a more workable approach.
In Perth, Australia, two thirds of all car trips are for distances of less than 5 kilometers. Using cars for these trips is both irrational and a hopelessly profligate use of resources, regardless of how they're powered.
5 kilometers is the kind of distance where even pedal bicycles are competitive with cars in terms of trip time, especially once you factor in traffic. And e-bikes are only getting cheaper and more accessible too.
That and price.
Likewise the LA/Vegas line looks like a real money maker on paper.
Private transportation will always be unsustainable, regardless of power source. More ambitious goals are necessary.
not a dislike, but a principled and objective position. Future investment in that modal should be zero.
Even with the most competently run department it would take months to get a grasp on their projects.
Any large entity that doesn't know the contract status, percent complete, and vendor status for it's construction is wacked.
Either the new people don't know where the info is stored, or the old people were indeed incompetent and needed to be fired.