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Greece has passed a new panican law. If you have an ev or a hybrid, you cannot enter a ferry (the only vehicle transportation option to one of the thousand greek islands) with a battery charged above 40%.
You all can guess why. The realities of ev/hybrid batteries will hit the eu hard once most cars have them and so fires from them in ferries/bridges/tunnels that cannot be extinguished turn the tide against evs especially.
That will be the eventual downfall of evs.
No there are no safe batteries their purpose is to be bombs/diver's flares. No, no new battery tech will ever be safe it's physically impossible. No, natgas/propane isn't as dangerous because it can be extinguished.
Greece will be the first to limit evs snd perhaps hybrids to unpractical levels. First us, then everyone. Printscreen this

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Ah. That's a Pinto. AMC made the Gremlin and Pacer.

The Gremlin was essentially a cut down Hornet and was RWD. It could be had from the factory with a V8, and there was a dealership that installed the AMC 401 in it.

The Pacer was originally intended to have a Wankel rotary engine sourced from GM, but GM pulled the plug on their Wankel program and AMC had to scramble and adapt it to use the AMC 258 inline 6.

Gremmies are badass. The original Hot Hatch. They were dominating the subcompact racing scene in the 1970's so badly that the rules had to be changed.