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  • Yes.The Pure (base) is $72,000 delivered, plagued with issues, and subsidized so heavily the company lost $1 billion in the last quarter alone. This is reflected in some of the highest replacement parts costs in the industry rivaling ultra luxury manufacturers like Bentley. It is why residual retention is so poor even by EV standards.

    This car is the poster child for my point. They put a powerful motor in, added battery to mitigate the lost range, then had to engineer around the weight at a price. You just don’t see the full cost which easily exceeds $150,000 per vehicle shipped.









  • This is almost certainly low, and the current Indian regime is unlikely to invest to reduce the count or even increase accuracy.

    It is obsessed with GDP per capita, and it can be boosted by both growing the economy in the numerator and dropping the number of poor people in the denominator. Climate change will do the latter.

    South Asian cities are some of the worst urban heat islands on the planet, and death traps in summer. Without mass air conditioning, it is no exaggeration that over one million heat deaths a year likely occur now, and this number will grow exponentially in coming years.

    The world is not prepared for the mass refugees Bangladesh will create.



  • Metro Toronto is a disappointment. It should be have been doubling its subway network every 20 years. Instead it shut down a line, added a few stations on another, and built LRT that’s slower than the bus it replaced.

    It needs express subway tracks, GO with 10 minutes headways, and transit oriented development able to house 10k people within a ten minute walk of every GO stop which means zoning for density,

    Pay for it by owning the land around stations like HK or Singapore and leasing it to developers for 40 story affordable apartments, increasing the gasoline tax, and putting tolls on the 401 and Gardiner.

    Toronto is a transportation nightmare. It’s time to adopt successful models from Asia to make transit fast, convenient, and cheap while making driving fast, convenient, and incredibly expensive. Fill in with protected bike lanes and the city will be liveable and affordable with great air quality