No, but it’s about a third China

Full electrics (BEVs) alone accounted for 24% of the country’s auto sales. This pulled the 2023 share to 35% (24% BEVs), and considering the current growth rate, we can assume that China’s plugin vehicle market share will end over 40% by the end of 2023.

I wouldn’t worry too much about Asia.

Going by the popular votes, no, actually.

Yamaha Pacificas are a great first guitar in terms of value for money.

Not in the UK, where the meme is set. NHS hospital administrators don’t get a cut of any money because there is no money.

GOURANGA

Someone needs to own a car still.

And that someone can’t be available every day when I need to do two school runs and an office trip.

That someone can’t always be available when the sink springs a leak and I need to go buy some new washers and plumber’s mait.

I really question your life experience at this point. If you’re single, childless and living in a big city, sure, cars are very unnecessary. For most people this isn’t the case

Unironically, “you were my brother, Anakin. I loved you” though I suppose it is more of just a line rather than a whole scene. Ewan was too good for those films.

For real, the pavements here are like bunched-up carpet from all the roots, lol

It’s a town of 90k people. The kind of town that the vast majority of people in the UK live in.

Just out of curiosity how can you transport something large and bulky, that isn’t allowed on public transport, let’s say furniture, or the remains of a shed you dismantled or any one of a hundred inconvenient loads that occur during your life without a car?

Great, well I have a six year old that needs to get to his school which is about a mile and a half away and I need to get to work 20 mins after which is about three miles in the other direction.

I then also need to do his pickup during my lunch break.

Most people’s lives don’t work without a car because that’s not the society that car ownership created.

The train doesn’t stop at the recycling centre. Nor does it stop at my childrens’ schools. Ditto my office, the supermarket, IKEA, the house of the person I just bought weed from.

The layout of our towns expanded with the ubiquity of cars. Services agglomerated and became situated where land was cheap rather than central.

Bikes and light mass transit have their use cases but removing cars is not feasible for the majority of households

Hard to carry a TV on a bicycle, or transport loads to the recycling centre, or drop my kids off at school or any one of a thousand things that occur day to day.

Our world redesigned itself with the invention of cars. Trying to exist without them is very hard for your average family, especially those who live outside cities.

Or the tree trunk grew to the asphalt.

How do you believe women (and men, and NBs) who willingly go into this line of work should be treated?

There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me

As if I were their well-acquainted friend

A comedy of errors, act IV, scene 3

That’s the thing, though, European swords cover the whole gamut from ridiculously light foils to nutso zweihanders.

I get that Japanese swords are the same and there are ridiculous nodachi and tiny little wakizashi but the difference is of size more than form.

There’s much more variation in European swords so it’s hard to say ‘the Japanese sword is better than the European one’ because there’s almost definitely a European sword specialized for whatever use case you’re comparing the swords for.

Look at the MG4, 200 mile range and very competitively priced.

Yeah, because it’s a jraphical interface format.

What if they need to transport a load of bricks, or sand, or scaffolding?

I imagine there are more than a few loopholes in the ‘no cars’ policy.