Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Hilarious EV Fail in Minnesota, HAHAHA!" video.

  1. I think if you went to Europe, including/especially the northern parts, you'd see people riding bikes year-round. It's more culture and relative wealth than anything else. The U$A is one of few countries where motorized transport is taken for granted, and high performance standards are a major selling point for the unwashed. The rest of the world never had a muscle-car era like the U$A. They didn't even have the roads for them. Narrow streets from century(ies) prior, where nobody imagined a Ford Galaxy, Cadillac or a Chrysler Town & Country.
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  2. I think hybrid vehicles make a lot of sense, but I have very little confidence in the big automakers to make anything close to what I really want. I've owned several small pickups over the decades. As a man with a genetic defect, I was never going to start a family, so I never worried about seating for 4 or more. Pickup's just perfect. Anyway, I loved my '74 Datsun, '82 Nissan (same company), '84 Toyota, '80 Ford, '93 Toyota, and current 2012 Toyota. The last one is a club cab with the back seat torn out, of course. The only thing wrong with all the rice burners up to '93 was the lack of power at highway speeds, and even though I'm an avid back-roader/off-roader, most of the drive getting there is highway, and most of that is up around the Continental Divide (in various Western states). The only thing wrong with 2012 is it's a bit of a gas hog, getting around 20 mpg. The '93 is a bit better, but not much, and while it's better than the 4-bangers who went before, it's still slightly underpowered, which the 2012 definitely is not. My ideal vehicle would be just like my '84, with hybrid boost and short-range electric option. It outperformed lifted rigs with oversized tires in everything except highway driving. Rough terrain or mud, I never had anything better. I know people who bought late-model HiLux for something comparable, but you have to order it from overseas, because apparently, the best that pre-EV tech has to offer is illegal in the states. Yes. Modern computers do everything they can to keep the user from accessing the directory tree.
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