Secound addition: I should also mention that we are not a very religious country anymore the last census had around 60% listing themselves as not religious or atheist and the rest was split over all the other global religions. Obviously we still have religious cultures here especially amougnst the older generations. But if you are looking for a specific community like that I have no idea if you will find it and most people outside of that will be politely disinterested.
Obviously there are some Kiwis like that but as a rule we are far more relaxed and as a result Americans that don't relax can feel isolated. But most do.
Just follow the don't be a dick rule and you will be fine.
Just an additional note. The more jingoistic, racist, backwards Americans do not tend to move overseas. So don't worry about that been a perception of Americans who move here. Just in case that's what you were worried about.
People don't want to think about how the fuel they use is refined by colbalt, or their cellphones battery's use colbalt that is not really sourced from ethical sources ( sure most BEVs now use ethical sources or are colbalt free because a big deal was made about it, but almost everything else does not). I am the opposite of a fan of religion, but if she was not using religion to escape guilt over her lifestyle, it would be some other logical fallacy to avoid it. Same with child soldiers fighting over other resources, slaves used to make electronics, fabric materials harvested using child labour etc. We all do that in order to have our comfortable life style to some extent.
Let me preface this by saying I have met lots of great Americans. But if we are going by generalisations.
Far to obsessed with status and self. But after a while most Americans either relax about life or move on.
Or if you ever make that mistake use the manual door release. Woman was stuck in her car because she was an idiot.
The issue there is likely the economy. In any other time you would say there would be plenty who hit that criteria.
But now days it is rare to own a home and not be drowned in debt ( especially after divorce) That said you said hopefully, so you are well aware the state of play. Good luck, you sound resonable, that is frankly far to rare these days.
Not even close. Hybrid yes, but Toyota is the most active in trying to lobby against BEV cars and Nissan scaled back on its EV push after the leadership changed.
Volvo, BYD, MG, Hyundai, kea, Tesla, Tata and many more Chinese BEV company's are far, far more domenint and positively active in the EV space.
Not even close. Hybrid yes, but Toyota is the most active in trying to lobby against BEV cars and Nissan scaled back on its EV push after the leadership changed.
Volvo, BYD, MG, Hyundai, kea, Tesla, Tata and many more Chinese BEV company's are far, far more domenint and positively active in the EV space.
Depends which brand. The BYD cars get 5 star in Europe and here in New Zealand. They are very safe. But then again most properly made BEVs are far safer than A gas car these days.
https://www.bydauto.co.nz/news/atto-3-earns-5-star-ancap-safety-rating
That being said there are some Chinese brands in their internal market in which safety is something that happens to someone else from what I have heard.
Got to do your research when buying as you always should.
Getting hit as well. They lost another s400 yesterday due to a attacms
Or if this close put upside down. The gust will push the disc down rather than up and back making the miss far less consequential.
What a Smeg head.
No that's what happens when you invest in a technology at a large scale 10 years before anyone else. China has massive production advantages in BEVs over almost every company except maybe Tesla. Mainly due to their mammoth investment in supply chains and the LFP chemistry battery cell.
Just a third the cost to make.
About on par with Ranfurly in the large cans. Crap but at 12 dollars a slab as a student in 2000 quite cheap
And that people are a captive customer so they don't really have to give a fuck.
China is almost 50% of the global market and the Chinese economic zone definitely is. We are lucky here in New Zealand we have a free trade agreement so we have seen some of the vehicles. However the new government is a reactionary one and is trying to slow them as best it can. They won't last.
Chinese made EVs including the Shanghai Tesla's are amazing the quality of production exceeds anything we see from elsewhere. Best seen in the Tesla's the difference between a California model 3 and a Shanghai one is night in day in build quality.
I think that sums up most people's feelings on it.
Most none biased papers (that take in the full lifecycle of petrol) on it I have read put a long range EV (that's a bigger foot print that a small Chinese ev) crossover in footprint with a Prius at around 30000km. That number will only improve as renewables generation becomes more dominant and the scale of production increases (reducing the indervidual production footprint of each ev) .
So about two years.
They have been the most active in trying to slow the progress of Full electric vehicles for over a decade now. The damage lobbying like that has caused is enormous.
But yes GM and Ford are likely the next worst offenders. Just look at the 100% tarrif on Chinese BEVs. That stops Americans from have access to affordable high quality EVs and forces them to stay in fossil fuel burners or spend more than they can afford to get an EV.
Although VW and co for their Diesel emissions cover up is right up there as well.
It will as it has joined nuclear as the most expensive option. Thanks to the EV revolution dropping the cost of storage. Renewables are now just cheaper. It is what has driven the renewables boom in India as well (as well as the fact that a distributed grid is easier to build a cross a poorer area that had no power before hand, just like we saw cellphones in large parts of Africa gmthat never had land lines).
China's coal consumption has stalled (they still build plants as a jobs program but the vast majority are mothballed or to replace older less efficient plants) and India's grid fell below 50% coal for the first time in 60 years this year.
China's car market is now close to 50% NEV (BEV, FCV and long range plug in hybrids). All the while producing more than half of the world's install capacity in renewables. They are on track to doing their part all the while the USA is been found to under report methane emmisons by more the half actual values.
Frankly the USA is behind china and has been caught lying about emmisons.
Well the thing about the BEV industry is it is the mainnforce driving up the scales of battery cell production and therefore prices down. It is due to this industry that we now have grid storage options to match with renewables that can put compeate fossil fuels and nuclear. Just as it was the laptop and cell phone market that enabled the first electric vehicles in the late 2000s..
That does not really work for nuclear. It is so much more expensive than renewables plus battery storagez the opertunity cost of building out nuclear is less overall clean energy than if renewables were chosen instead. It also takes far longer to build.
Nothing wrong with its green credentials however.
Wtf. The daughter brought up her emotions about disliking her mothers actions but needed a female role model. The father just suggested a solution to the role model. It was entirely the daughters idea to distance herself from her mom, a daughter that is almost an adult and capable of making her own decisions To accuse opnof allianation is way over the top and lack logical credentials.
AITAH for telling my daughter to consider my sister as a role model rather than her mother who cheated on me?
AITAH