Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

This is preferential parking spaces for cis-engined electric vehicles. As it happens, my Ford F-450 XL Extended Cab Diesel Super Duty self-identifies as an electric/bioethanol hybrid. This makes parking in university parking lots a very traumatic and hurtful experience for my pickup truck. Every time I’m on campus, circling past the most-conveniently-placed, perpetually empty parking spots, exclusively and ostentatiously reserved for cis-engined electric vehicles, my pickup is implicitly attacked and judged. These preferential parking spaces denigrate my pickup truck’s painful process of self-discovery, through which it came to see that its mechanically-given, assigned engine did not correspond to its authentic, inner engine. Until recently, this realization had been suppressed by our mechaniconormative, cisenginist culture that habitually and unselfconsciously imposes false, binary, and deterministic narratives upon vehicle propulsion. My pickup’s important witness problematizes the assumption that just because it was assigned the throaty growl of a 6.7L Power Stroke® V8 Turbo Diesel at manufacture, it can’t self-identify as a zero-emission battery pack. It deserves to be affirmed and celebrated, and protected from retrograde vehicular policies, so that it too can have a convenient and safe (parking) space. Tesla, check your privilege.

The stock of plug-in electric cars represented 0.1% of the one billion cars on the world's roads by the end of 2015. When sales are broken down by type of powertrain, all-electric cars have oversold plug-in hybrids, with pure electrics capturing 58.9% of the global stock of 1.257 million plug-ins on the world's roads by the end of 2015.

As of August 2016, the United States is the largest country market with a stock of over 500,000 highway legal light-duty plug-in electric vehicles..., up from a stock of over 295,000 units in 2014, ... almost 30% of the global stock of light-duty plug-in electric vehicles. As of July 2016, China ranked second with over 462,000 units sold, up from more than 83,000 plug-in passenger cars sold through 2014, ... about 28% of the global stock of plug-ins.

As of July 2016, over 535,000 plug-in electric passenger cars and vans have been registered in Europe, making the continent the world's largest plug-in regional market. By the end of 2015, almost 25% of the European stock was on the roads in the Nordic countries... As of July 2016, sales in the European light-duty plug-in electric segment ... were led by Norway with over 112,700 units, Netherlands with over 95,500 units, and France with over 94,500 units.

Actually I had two. Range and cost.

Now keep in mind this article covers a full size "Light Duty" truck (150/1500 size.)

  7k lbs is light compared to the things I haul. 

what would be best?

Took me a couple tries to get the sound just the way I wanted it. I love the sound of old muscle cars with properly tuned duel exhaust systems.

Or the old favourite: In which countries are the motorway signs blue and in which are they green? (This map has max speed added, where applicable)

by the same measure Germany certainly shouldn't be listed as limitless.

To be more accurate, 65% out of 25.650 km freeway are without any speed limit (Richtgeschwindigkeit = recommended speed).

I can't think of a counterpart we have for this. My best guess is that it's for single lane roads with opposing traffic?

But I'd read one as "lookout for tractors" and the other as "no tractors". (respectively)

No parking sign there in the back, got that one.
Road is closed between 15-01 hours?
Road is closed to anything more than 3.5t?
But also no motor vehicles or motorbikes? (redundantly)

Yes, it's about who gets to go first.

Sounds about right. I wonder if we even have special trident sign holders around here... 

Bloop.
I'm sure it'd make more sense to see it. Wouldn't hurt to have it on a few country backroads, actually. Country Rulez still apply well enough. Someone yields - we wave, and go on.

A red circle always means something is forbidden.

In which countries are the motorway signs blue and in which are they green?

Or you could solve this problem by averaging all colors:


(average of eight most used green and blue sign colors)

Do you have an example?

I don't recall if they even have that sign?

That one's more for what I think you'd call highways. On a highway you have priority, indicated by this sign:

The normal rule without signs is that right goes first. Unlike in America where every street corner seems to have all these stop signs.

Both are regulating, but only the first one is forbidding.
Although almost always both are forbidding the same thing. 

The signs pointing out the direction to Madison, Chicago, Detroit, etc. are green, of course.