# What are your electric vehicle plans?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-electric-vehicle-plans/923614>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 22, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-electric-vehicle-plans/923614 "2020-10-22T18:45:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-electric-vehicle-plans/923614/2146 "2026-09-02T00:16:14Z")

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Substantially every US company big enough to sell internationally is owned by one or another R-donating shithead.

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-electric-vehicle-plans/923614/2147 "2026-09-02T00:54:17Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> You rented children by mistake?

I’m not a fan of renting kids, I prefer to [buy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLUiK2lbN2s&t=127)

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-electric-vehicle-plans/923614/2148 "2026-09-02T13:06:16Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Substantially every US company big enough to sell internationally is owned by one or another R-donating shithead.

I generally won’t fault anyone for boycotting anything. That said, large American mass manufacturing companies that sell internationally are nearly all publicly traded. Institutions and pensions own the vast majority of them. Even Tesla. Elmo is by far the largest stakeholder but that’s about 15% of the company and he’s an extreme example (in many respects).

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-electric-vehicle-plans/923614/2149 "2026-09-02T13:12:39Z")

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> [@Spiderman](#):
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> > [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> > You rented children by mistake?
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> I’m not a fan of renting kids, I prefer to [buy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLUiK2lbN2s&t=127)

In case anyone cares, it was a typo for “kinda”. Maybe that was obvious.

> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I think you voicetyped “kids” kinda by mistake

I don’t ever “voice type”, by the way. I mostly read the dope in places where randomly speaking out loud would annoy other people (like my husband). My mistakes are due to swyping on my phone, and being a shitty typist with auto-correct on my laptop. The mistakes are very different and i can tell what hardware i was using by looking at my typos.

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