budget_biochemist

The expandable part seems like extra complexity and fragile parts. It would be nice to progress to fixed solar roofs as the norm first, on real cars not just "concepts".

The best bit, about a third of the way through:

... and so we end up sounding like a nineties era sociology textbook and there's this trope of like toxic masculinity. And every time you hear the word masculinity among people on the left, it's usually. It usually comes with that toxic trope. Now, if there's not another option about a non-toxic masculinity, then at some point you're basically condemning a whole group of people. And if you don't offer them anything, why is it surprising that they're gonna go in a different direction?

The problem isn't education so much as simple laziness. Many users are too lazy to charge it when they can, so it has to rely on the ICE more often.

Some of the research/polling indicates it's lazy users. They buy a hybrid, then are too lazy to charge it when they can, just fill it up when the tank gets low.

If you think a 20% change is not noticeable, I would invite you to walk into a room that’s 100% nitrogen.

That's a 100% change, not a 20% change. A 20% change would reduce the oxygen by 20%, to around 16%. You're confusing percentages with percentage points.

Western manufacturers keep seeing electric cars and electric bikes as specialist, luxury items. They are ignoring the obvious, that electric vehicles are the future of transport for everyone and they need to have models that fit all price ranges, including budget models.

Ironic given the origins of Volkswagen, literally "people's car".

AFAIK (I'm not a botanist) it's true of many larger trees that they use more oxygen than they produce and emit more CO2 than they consume. It's the biosphere that the large trees support that does a lot of the carbon sinking - mosses, ferns, vines, etc.

As a rule of thumb, the greater the ratio of woody mass to leafy mass the more the ratio tilts away from being a carbon sink, as the whole lifeform has to undergo aerobic respiration but only the leaves participate in photosynthesis.

For the "sometimes" long distance trips, you can always hire a long-range car for the trip.

The word "farmers" is widely used to refer to Kulaks (people who own farm land, but employ others to do most of the hands-on work of farming it) as well as the farm workers themselves.

The Resistance? Air Purifiers? Carbon Commandos? Pollution Patrol?

Air pollution: Coroner calls for law change after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's death:

An inquest had found air pollution "made a material contribution" to her death.... Ella was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as the cause of death on their death certificate, following the inquest ruling ...