Here is what looks like good news about the transition out of carbon. If Toyota can deliver what it claims, the game is going to change.
Toyota bZ3. Image courtesy of Toyota.
Hyperbole alert: The following news will evoke all the hackneyed words and phrases that so often are used to talk about new battery technology. Prepare for a flurry of “game changer,” “holy grail,” and “This changes everything” statements. Yet if the news today from Toyota is true — emphasis on if — the path of the EV revolution is about to be altered forever. The fact that it comes from Toyota, a company we have been lambasting for years because of its refusal to take electric cars seriously, makes this news all the more surprising.
Last month, Toyota announced it has a new electric car strategy. Around the CleanTechnica latte bar, the general consensus is that it’s about damn time.
“The next-generation battery EVs will adopt new batteries, through which we are determined to become a world leader in battery EV energy consumption. With the resources we earn, we will improve our product appeal to exceed customer expectations and secure earnings. We will roll out next-generation BEVs globally and as a full lineup to be launched […]
What I have been telling my readers for a decade is now being recognized by others: The Great Schism Trend. As this piece describes populations of the MAGAt worldview in Blue states moving to Red states, while those in the the Red states who support democracy and wellbeing are moving to Blue states. We are becoming two different countries, as we are shown nearly everyday, and we are not paying enough attention to this trend. We are not planning for it properly. As time goes on it will become ever clearer about the inferiority of Republican governance. We need to discuss how to deal with that.
Jennifer and Tim Kohl pose for a photo in their front yard with the American flag and a thin blue line flag in Star, Idaho, on April 14, 2023. The couple recently moved to Idaho from the Los Angeles area. Americans are segregating by their politics at a rapid clip, helping fuel the greatest divide between the states in modern history. Credit: Kyle Green / AP
STAR, IDAHO — Once he and his wife, Jennifer, moved to a Boise suburb last year, Tim Kohl could finally express himself.
Kohl did what the couple never dared at their previous house outside Los Angeles — the newly-retired Los Angeles police officer flew a U.S. flag and a Thin Blue Line banner representing law enforcement outside his house.
Republicans and Democrats both are guilty. The creation of the private prison industry on the basis of data for both immigrants and in every state throughout the country is an immoral evil. It is a shame to the nation. Here is the reality we allow to exist, and fund.
The CoreCivid-run Stewart Detention Center sits in Lumpkin, a rural town about 140 miles southwest of Atlanta and right next to the Georgia-Alabama state line. Credit: David Goldman / AP
At least three facilities operated by the private prison company CoreCivic systematically use torture as retaliation against immigrants who denounce the conditions of detention, according to advocates, attorneys, researchers, and detainees. Practices such as extreme solitary confinement, medical neglect, forceful transfers, and threats of removal silence immigrants and allow CoreCivic to maintain lucrative government contracts.
Hunger strikes, federal investigations into abuse, and complaints against immigration agencies have made the Biden administration fully aware of the retaliatory practices used at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility, Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center, and California’s Otay Mesa Detention Center. Still, the federal government maintains more than $100 million in open contracts with CoreCivic to keep immigrants and asylum-seekers in civil detention, often for several years.
These practices—which inflict “severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental,” to punish, intimidate, coerce, or […]
Here is the proof of another trend SR has predicted and covered. The inferiority of Republican governance should be obvious to anyone who looks into the data. The Blue states underwrite the systemic failure of the Red states. Here is a very good take on how this works to keep Alabama afloat.
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If the state of Alabama had been around in 1776, elected officials here would have blasted Congress for the Declaration of Independence.
Dangerous overreach. Revolutionary. We’re tired of Washington ordering us around.
That’s what our leaders do.
It’s a long Alabama political tradition. Maybe even a rite of passage. No conservative official in this state gets attention until they perform the sacred act of facing north-northeast and shaking a fist at the Potomac, blaming it for all the problems we’ve brought on ourselves.
When Gov. Kay Ivey called a special session last week to redo the state’s congressional maps – after the conservative U.S. Supreme Court determined that they violated the Voting Rights Act – she first made sure to utter a loud sigh.
“Our Legislature knows our state, our people and our districts better than the federal courts or activist groups do,” she said in a statement. (The “activist groups,” in this case, being Black Alabamians — including legislators — justly arguing that the original maps locked Black voters out of the political process.)
The next day, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville greeted the release of federal money for infrastructure by saying […]
Two out of three Americans can’t even tell you what they were celebrating yesterday. This survey by One Poll a well respected survey organization reveals this both factual and pathetic statement about Americans, and American education. And when one places this in the context of what the MAGAt Party is trying to do to gut public education, it becomes clear that most Americans have very little understanding of what American democracy is about, and how it is organized. Being a patriotic American to a large percentage of the American population essentially means what Christian Nationalist says it means. White supremacy. Male dominance. A weird view of human sexuality.
Our recent survey reveals two out of three Americans don’t know the true meaning of Independence Day Our online poll tested the patriotic knowledge of 1,000 U.S. respondents, 99% of whom identified as either a born or naturalized citizen of the United States.
When asked what July 4 is meant to officially commemorate, only 59% gave the correct answer: “The signing of the Declaration of Independence.”
Although 41% got the question wrong, 22% came close, choosing “The establishment of the United States as an independent nation.”
Similarly, only 45% correctly answered the year the very first organized celebration of independence took place: 1777, a year after the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.
Where the rest of the survey was concerned, however, many respondents did well in their understanding of U.S. history and Civics, answering a series of questions that are often used in the U.S. Citizenship Test…
A whopping 82% correctly answered that the “Commander in Chief” of the military is the President
A similar percentage (82%) identified the “Star Spangled Banner” as the title of the National Anthem.
