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Born on March 13, 2014•298 Karma
In my London situation, 95% of my journeys will be within 50 miles easily.
I imagine it's more of an issue in the US and similar.
However, I don't have a garage or even a house. I park on the street and I would need at least 1 weekly trip to some charging station.
In the 5% times I go over that distance, I will need to stop to charge when leaving and coming back ( considering I have never driven in the direction of a SuperCharger, so the only one available is in London )
So well, it was already a stretch to adapt my lifestyle to accomodate a Tesla, this missing feature is like a mail from Musk explaining me I'm definitively not the target demographic for his car.
It's possible, at this point in time, that maybe you aren't the demographic. I wouldn't blame Musk for that, really. More of an city infrastructure issue. I mean, I don't see a huge push towards generic charging points all over the city despite things moving in that direction.
There was some green deal thing a year or two ago where they were subsidising charging points at home ... of course, they scrapped that ... I guess that wouldn't help you anyway.
Maybe you're better off with a hybrid and get a Tesla when either the city charging situation improves or your home situation changes.
In London at least, the push is to get less car on the road, regardless if they are electric or not. There is no need to encourage electric adoption, only discourage cars and discourage more the one that are not electric.
I had a breakdown earlier this year and managed just fine over 2 months without the car. We fixed it because there is just no convenient way to go see the family or move children around easily and safely.
The fix for that however is probably coming from a combination of Uber-like services and automated car rental ( as long as they get to your home and back to the rental lot, you can manage the rest of the way ), rather than personal car ownership electric or otherwise.
We are not quite there yet, but considering my last car lasted me 15 years and counting, if I have a next one, it will be my last.
edit: BTW, no blaming Musk. It's not his fault if his products are desirable outside his target demographic.
The US, for example, is one presidency away from complete democratic failure. By which I mean all that data, which now is effectively, "in all likelihood", private via volume, can and will be abused.
Giving up and allowing privacy to fail now only makes disastrous consequences more likely later at the whim of that centralised power you mention.
Also, your statement that the "democratized political environment is far from perfect" was the understatement of the century.
Olympic level eye roll
Sorry, Monday morning is not the best time for this topic.
> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Excuse my colourful language, the DM is a shit newspaper ... understandably excluded from fact based discussions.
In terms of data, I imagine the US to be just as bad if not much worse (my prejudice) than Russia.
Someone can school me on this if I'm wrong but I prefer Telegram as a platform and I'm ambivalent as to which country my data ends up in (given this choice).
(Editing this comment based on above: "Small correction. With Telegram your data ends up in Germany. They are Berlin based and against the current Russian government")
For example, please see https://freedomhouse.org
I agree with you to a certain extent but, please, this is a broken "proof".
The UK sucks just as bad. The current PM has just announced plans to regulate the web if they win the next election.
Please don't be so naive as to equate the UK and USA with Putin's Russia.
But given the light and dark elements to data operations within many countries, I'd imagine you might be the one possibly being naive.
But I watched a couple of episodes a few weeks ago (yikes!)
Season 2 and 3 was where the real meat of the show was found.
Fun Fact: My wife wouldn't let me name our son Stringfellow
Anything but.