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Swedish author, Musk-hater and Tesla lover took his first dose of the orange pill (lemmy.world)
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Lars Wilderäng is a Swedish author and blogger. Quick overview: his topics generally revolve around defence policies (Russia bad, moar defence), economics (low interest rates bad, housing market speculation bad) and since the war started, the war in Ukraine (send Ukraine moar weapons). He hates Elon Musk but loves his Tesla. He hates ICE cars.

He's unfortunately one of the "EVs will solve everything" people, which annoys me greatly, but today I saw a small car-related comment on his blog that actually made me laugh.

Oh and sorry for the misspelled "cyclists".

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[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fun fact…both the death of wagons and the birth of CUVs, in the US, are due to CAFE.

Station wagons drag down the fleet average MPG for passenger cars. Crossovers, though, benefit the fleet average MPG for trucks. Even though they are just tall unibody vehicles.

IMO, that should be the delineation for CAFE (unibody vs. body-on-frame), instead of wheelbase.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 3 points 1 year ago

Exempt vehicles should either require farm plates or a CDL. If you're not using the vehicle for work, it should follow common-sense emissions requirements.

But to be fair ,the fact that we're still selling fossil cars in 2023 is insane, anyways.

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