a fascinating thing I have realized in the past couple years is that whenever I am looking to rent a car in another country it almost always makes financial sense to get an electric one just considering the price of fuel, whereas in the US gas is still cheap enough that there’s all these news articles about hertz having to dump half the electric fleet they overinvested in
speaking as someone who is having to pay an annoying amount of money to a guy in Phoenix to legally bring my prius with me back to the US (this story is much less triumphant than that of my wife’s green card) it feels like a lot of car companies are trying to overgeneralize internationally and meanwhile no one has made a better car for the US market than Toyota