Sort-of. What I’m imagining is a small selection of vehicle sizes from small hatchback to estate/people carrier to van/kei-sized pickup that have a common battery pack size, motor, and inverter.

You’d choose the type of vehicle that has just the basics built-in like safety and AC.

The rest is customisable and allows for 3rd party manufacturers to make ancillary products for it. Do this by using existing standards for 3rd party automotive parts and then create new standards with open sourced designs for things that aren’t: i.e. the battery pack size and interface, and inverter size and interface.

Eventually what I’d like to see is a market where people can keep these vehicles running by upgrading, repairing, recycling.

If I had a billion dollars laying around I’d sink it into trying to create an automotive co-operative to get at least 3 different sized vehicles with a common battery, motor, and inverter made, through certification, and then released. Then let the market do it’s thing when presented with a new opportunity: adopt and grow.

And I know that I’m certainly missing a lot of issues with this idea but that’s just what it is, an idea and it’ll probably stay that way unless someone else has the resources to make it.

Slate Auto is a good start, what I’d want is something that’s beyond what they’re offering at the moment.

Wishing them best of luck, despite Jeff Bezos, the Amazon cunt, backing them.

What I’d like is a EV that has no additional shite attached other than what I want.

Just give me a chassis with a standardised battery pack, that has AC. Then let ME choose what after-market 3rd party options to put in such as:

Heated seats, Radio/CD/BT/carplay or android auto using standard car DIN box sizes, reversing sensors, cruise control, cab lighting, etc.

You think the US can’t invade itself?

Hahahahahaha, here in Britain the ruling class managed to colonize their own country to entrench the class system by tieing the economy to the financial services sector.

I reckon the US would invade itself, after all the only wars they know how to fight are against guerrilla forces (even then it’s a spotty record), and there’s none more challenging than one that speaks the same language.

Honestly, I’m done being well informed. There’s literally nothing I can do about any of the stuff happening on the global level or even national level apart from get depressed and angry.

So I’m narrowing my attention to what I can change around me.

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Always one isn’t there.

There’s mass graves I guarantee it.

That’s not how judicial fines work, they know most people don’t have that amount in the bank so there’s zero point asking for the lump sum. Their aim is to disincentivise future “vandals” by making an example out of the first one. You won’t be able to escape the payments which will be unavoidable due to bankruptcy because a portion of your wages will be garnished so that you’ll have just enough to survive but the rest you’ll be paying back for the rest of your life.

Look what’s happening to that cunt Alex Jones, he can’t escape the settlement to the Sandy Hook families by bankruptcy so he’s doing everything he can to hide his income and assets and appeal the judgement.

So you’re suicidal?

Look I’m all for fucking over the corpo bastards but if you’re planning on sacrificing yourself because you truly think an ideal or cause is worth more than your life you’d be better off destroying the backups, blowing up the offices, and Luigi-ing the entire board of directors.

OR find some other way to fuck them over that doesn’t sacrifice your own life.

It will still be made your problem by the judge even if your employer doesn’t recover that money will still end up being paid to the majority shareholders.

That is unless you were planning to live without income or decide not to continue living.

What precisely about your point did I miss?

Until a judge rules that you’ll be paying that back over the rest of your life so every month a large court-orderd chunk of your paycheck will leave your account.

Thank you Mr skeletal

Fuck I forgot about internal combustion…

Well when you invent a new way to convert rotational energy into multi-phase AC please let us all know

Exactly, if an economy is an engine then money is the oil; if it pools (by a few people hoarding it) then there’s less flowing through to lubricate the engine turnover and it ceases up.

I don’t think I can.

All I see on the horizon is, at best, eco-fascism and at worst the slow crumbling of humanity before nuclear annihilation.

Why continue to have eyes if all I can see is destruction? Why continue to have ears if all I can hear is hatred? Why continue to have a mouth if the only words I can speak is righteous anger and cries of despair?

The glimmers of happiness get fewer and further between as life goes on. I just yearn for the long sleep; it feels like it’d be peaceful, unburdened, my metaphorical shoulders fucking hurt and I’m tired.

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Better hope you have zero money sent through or stored in a bank or pension fund and you don’t have a mortgage yourself or your landlord doesn’t have a mortgage or your employer doesn’t have a mortgage or business loan and doesn’t use a bank.

The correct response is what Iceland did: government bails out the bank’s customers, takes ownership, and actually jails the c-level wankers bankers.

Because like it or not, you’re still part of the financial system unless you’re currently sat in a self-sufficient earth-ship borrowing some else’s WiFi connection.

After you then mate.