Recent content by Jetboy

Likely not. Toyota never sells one with everything. There's kinda universal Toyota. Never build anything truly great. Stop at good enough. Make customers choose.

I was in LA last week and rented a Pacifica for the week. The one we started with had 3,400 miles on it. Practically new. And it broke down before we got out of the parking spot. Something in the transmission went haywire, dash lit up, and it wouldn't move. Not a huge issue - we just moved our...

For some reason I was thinking you had a sienna. I think the sienna is remarkable in being awd, 40mpg, and an insane amount of cargo volume. I want to buy one as a spare vehicle to use as a Turo rental and then have it around for when we have family in town.

Sure, but a Corolla is a lot less useful than an AWD van. A Prius is more similar vehicle. They get more like 55-60mpg at $30k vs 33mpg and $25k.

You can buy a family sedan that runs mid 9s standing quarter mile. You can buy a 300hp Rav 4 that gets 40mpg. A gx460 that tows over 9k lbs. And a diesel truck with 1200 ft lbs of torque. Even a 700hp dessert race truck. I'm just not seeing the sky falling here. Seems more like a golden age of...

The manufacturing is undoubtedly lower emissions. Toyota has gone to great lengths to cut its manufacturing emissions in the last 20 years. Even the batteries. 1.8kwh of nimh is about 150kg of carbon upstream. Steel is about 1.5lbs of CO2 per lb. Shaving 300lbs of steel would offset the battery...

I don't think there's anything subjective about it. Pollution per kwh in every category is way down from 20 years ago and trending down forward looking. The same is true for cars. They're faster, last longer, more capable, and pollute less.

Side benefit - you can also build them down wind. Utah can pollute Colorado air. Win win. 😂

Yes. It our grid actually does get cleaner. It gets a lot cleaner. There is no real clean coal, but even coal has gotten cleaner over time with a variety of technologies. However, not all grids have gotten cleaner. Germany has gotten significantly dirtier over the past decade. Germany is the...

It depends on your grid. In Utah my home was primarily rooftop solar. Net zero isn't actually zero, but I did have more generation than use annually and would add solar to match a vehicle. In Alaska - it's almost all natural gas. Even a grid burning only fossil fuels- EVS still burn a lot less...

I lived in Utah for 17 years. The copper mine is huge. But also tiny in comparison to the oil field impacts. I worked with them a lot as a major utility customer. But it's not close to the level to harm that you'll see by taking a drive to Vernal. I had a career in utilities. Solar, wind, hydro...

A few lithium mines are pretty minor in comparison. The long term difference; lithium is reusable. You only need to dig it out once. Burned oil isn't - at least not on human time scales. To put this in perspective - the Thacker Pass mine will produce enough lithium for about 40 million EVs...

Why would we want to restrict the development? I say bulldoze every square inch of it! (If it means I get to keep my v8)

I'm not sure oil and gas development has been super great for non-western countries: And - might be worth a look in our own backyard. I don't think people realize the scale of damage that fracking is doing in the west. The second picture covers hundreds of square miles of Utah and Wyoming now...

Out of curiosity- do you think these are fake? If you don't believe that air pollution is bad - what's the basis for that? Help me understand. Is it not real? It is real but not harmful? Or It's real and harmful but the harm to me isn't high enough to offset the benefit to me? Something else...