Beautiful.

But…

Republicans have been generally older folks, and what they’ve seen in the last 60 years is a rapid turnover of the world they knew.

This is an iffy assumption: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/28/gen-z-men-conservative-poll

The very youngest voters — 18-to-24-year-olds — say they’re more conservative than the cohort that’s just older, according to the latest Harvard Youth Poll.

The younger generation of men is more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal.

Between the lines: They were hardest hit by COVID-19 and felt ignored by the establishment, John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, told Axios this month.

The youngest members of that group were just 10 years old when Trump was elected president and see this chaotic political era as normal.

“They think of Trump as an anti-hero and not a villain. … I think it’s less about policy and much more about personality,” Della Volpe said.

Welcome to the TikTok, podcast and Discord era. It’s not just disillusioned older folks that turned to Trump, but younger folks who are completely immersed in algorithms, influencers, and echo chambers, and understandably feel the system has failed them.

Coincidentlaly, throwing all this junk out makes EV’s significantly lighter. And theoretically cheaper.

They kinda suffer from “the tyranny of the rocket equation” since so much of their mass is “fuel.” Make it lighter, and they need less battery for the same range, which means you need even less battery to carry that battery around, lighter motors, less chassis and suspension weight for that, which removes even more battery, and so on.

This is not the case with combustion cars, where much of the engine’s mass is fixed and gasoline takes up little weight.