Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. On Earth Day, a look at a few bright spots for emission reductions.
Coincidentally, saw one of these rolling by the house here in the PNW
I wonder how it was imported and then registered. There’s a zero percent chance it meets US DOT standards and it’s not nearly old enough for the “classic” import exemption.
I suppose it’s possible that it was a GM test mule but the PNW isn’t a common place to see those.
A lot of US states are starting to close the classic vehicle exceptions too. Because their pickup-loving busybody mid-level bureaucrats are aesthetically displeased by kei trucks and so wield the levers of the administrative state to ban them for bullshit reasons.
I was definitely already amid doing the research for getting an old Kei truck and converting it to electric when I found out my state wouldn’t tolerate me doing it anymore. Because evidently a kei is super dangerous to be in on the road. More dangerous than a motorcycle or bicycle. Somehow.
I wonder how it was imported and then registered. There’s a zero percent chance it meets US DOT standards and it’s not nearly old enough for the “classic” import exemption.
I suppose it’s possible that it was a GM test mule but the PNW isn’t a common place to see those.
A lot of US states are starting to close the classic vehicle exceptions too. Because their pickup-loving busybody mid-level bureaucrats are aesthetically displeased by kei trucks and so wield the levers of the administrative state to ban them for bullshit reasons.
I was definitely already amid doing the research for getting an old Kei truck and converting it to electric when I found out my state wouldn’t tolerate me doing it anymore. Because evidently a kei is super dangerous to be in on the road. More dangerous than a motorcycle or bicycle. Somehow.
Huh, I didn’t realize that an individual state could do that. I thought that the Federal rules covered it. TIL.
I remember more than one time time when I thought I was wrong but I wasn’t. ;-> Howsabout ‘I thought I saw one…’. I’ve never seen a UFO either!