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Simple EVs - try China (an unknown EV country in Japan).

Silicon, lithium and God knows what else they make batteries from are one thing, energy going in another.

Lots of EVs are top of the range, with lots of precious and rare-earth metals going into them. They are a thoughtless environmental problem.

A simple EV, without all that, with recyclable parts and infrastructure for that - sorry, but China produces a few with non-Chinese names.

Go from Japan, and Korea, to other places, even Europe and China where they have even long-term planned for this, and you can find.

But it is still a market driven endeavour, and a relatively closed market one at that.

Arrest my wife (who cuts my hair quite well enough)!

good LUCK!

Whatever agenda Greenpeace’s and similar voice’s are essential.

Same old …

A kind of spectator sport.

And Gotemba ain’t Miyakojima.

Events like this are to show off to

the locals, to inspire hope

the ‘enemies’ , to inspire second thoughts

Does it work?

Just number 1

Jetstar in Australia have roaming teams with scales at boarding gates weighing, counting and charging for over 7kg - a nice earner.

Last paragraph is the kicker.

Emails can be ignored

People, communities need senses of tradition true and false, circuses and thereby distraction - as long as they don’t know they are paying for it.

I wonder how many of those people have houses there. Or yachts.

Thank you JT - don’t need to know any more.

Presumption of online

Finding governments discover actual potentials of their power, using it, then abusing it., plus people experiencing it. Take a generation for that to settle down

Paul Simon’s ‘ 50 Ways to Leave your Lover’ was pre-social media.

Xi

But even the CCP don’t know everything CCP has, does or is. Does Xi?

And PLA are not THAT much under its thumb.

Rationale for officials’ words from China is to say something to enable getting next higher job.

Xi however is already there, and actually says less than you’d expect.

No

Dumb

2 reasons:

waste

disasters

Believe if you like, but …

Insynch

For a huge market,

VW's China chief Ralf Brandstaetter said the group needed to make cars "in China, for China" if it wanted to boost e-sales there -- and do so faster.

Yes

in smaller markets, including rising developing countries - with or without E-charging infrastructure, other strategies are needed.

Eg. Australia, e-vehicle range-range angst is an issue. PHEV seems a goer there.

Still too early to tell.

Wait till AI sentience, or something.

Only one thing to say:

Cheers to this idea!

While I/we remain tactile, and autonomously mobile, or until have physiological digital interface, the way we are is the way we are - switched off unconnected until we decide to have a device, switch something on and connect.

In the end, humans are still detached till they choose not to be.

Furusawaya in Niigata-ken on the way to Aizu.

Full-on early Showa, old style, labyrinthine, well maintained, usually empty with wonderful rotenburo overlooking river bend, so often just you.

Or オーベールジ土佐山 above Kochi City, on side of valley with 60-degree+cedar-covered slopes, newer, but wooden rotenburo planks deteriorating since I first went in mid 2000s.

Or ‘ラミネート’ onsen somewhere in Oita, with weird bubbles of nitrates or something all over skin, fizzily tingling.

Ships had to be demagnetised after WW2 to avoid all the magnetic mines (still) left in the seas.

If crisis starts, these forgotten weapon-types will be cried out for.

Seems like someone is planning contingencies (too much).

Strongest evidence yet of implicit public policy to even out youth-aged demographic balance or just stymie population growth.

Yes.

I got a job,

which sucks.

Now for a Plan B.

Or C

Misguided

Pollution was the thing then

That being said, climate change acceptance or denial regardless, action leads to cleaner environment on the whole.

Still trial - complicated.

Complicated yet if can be done, great!

Till next complication.

Association

Developing countries are markets for so many used internal combustion engine vehicles that until their current supply dries up gas stations will be around.

Big, open developed countries the same. Smaller affluent car producing markets shifting to electric are still not the main markets.

What about fabric?

I am older, many video calls overseas, fewer locally, so not a good person to ask.

Better to ask who still use FB or WhatsApp -lots of channels coming and going in the social media world

Blast from the past before moving on.