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I'm also guessing Nassau in spite of YABO's technicality. There was a direct flight there on United that is apparently gone now, so I think Frontier will try to fill that void.

Wow, I can't believe Birdtown Brewing is still happening. That was approved in 2014!

The article mentions Tesla, BYD, and Li Auto. I think Rivian is also on a decent track. Lucid's obviously struggling and Nikola and Lordstown aren't in the conversation. I think the premise was more "doing well with EV's" than just doing well financially. In that context, what legacy automakers are actually doing well? Hyundai/Kia possibly, and maybe a couple of the luxury brands (BMW, Audi, Volvo). GM is struggling to produce vehicles and Ford is losing a ton on every EV the produce. The cheapest Tesla is about $30,000 now after tax credit. The cheapest EV (though it's being discontinued for a couple years) is the Chevy Bolt for about $20,000 after tax credit. Certain states (Colorado, Vermont, Massachusetts) offer their own tax credits to bring those numbers down another $2-5k, which puts a Tesla on par with a Civic. For the most part though, you're right, EV's are too expensive for most people. That's not the case worldwide, however, so I think there could be more affordable options in America in the next few years.

Despite all the negative headlines, EV sales in the US are way up this year: https://about.bnef.com/blog/zero-emission-vehicles-factbook-cop28-edition/ As mentioned in the article, some manufacturers (Ford, GM) are missing their targets because their offerings aren't competitive enough on price, especially with Tesla's frequent price reductions this year. It seems that legacy automakers are struggling to thread the needle in transitioning to EV's, while pure-play EV companies are doing well without the baggage of having to maintain ICE production as well.

It's about the size of an F150. A few inches shorter actually and pretty much the same width.

I believe NOACA applied for studying increased service on the existing routes through Cleveland, and that apparently wasn't selected. I would have loved to see some daytime trains in Cleveland, which I think would prove there's high demand (not that the nighttime routes are unpopular) and help make the case for frequent 3C+D service.

Alabama LOST to Texas at home this year. That’s how they can be excluded. They also struggled to be multiple bad teams. Florida State has an incredible defense and lost no games. There’s precedent for winning a national championship with a backup QB (Ohio State 2014). Florida State got absolutely robbed today.

Yes, it is. I think it’s actually a lot simpler than CCS. It’s fewer conductors at least. So maybe switching over down the line won’t be a big deal.

Yeah, this is what I was talking about. Dual cable would just be two CCS plugs, but still no NACS. Again, there’s definitely still a place for 150 kW CCS, almost anyone that currently has a EV would be delighted to charge there. However, the top players in the market are now manufacturing ~350 kW chargers with NACS. By 2025, there may be NO new EV’s with CCS. VW is the only major automaker that hasn’t announced a transition from CCS to NACS, and they’re <5% of the market. Keeping this more on-topic, it seems that their stock is continuing to go up since the announcement, so they must be doing something right. If they can build reliable chargers they’ll certainly always have a place in the market as reliability has plagued non-Tesla DC fast chargers across the country.

I saw they officially launched their EV chargers yesterday, and LECO is up a little today to $197. I thought the specs on their charger are kind of disappointing. Most new EV's can charge faster than 150 kW, so they'd be hardware-limited by these chargers. The CCS connector is also on the way out, as almost every manufacturer has announced a switch to NACS. Hopefully Lincoln Electric is planning to do the same, but it was kind of odd not to see it mentioned. It's not terrible, just not the best hardware out there. I still think it'll do well because there's so much demand for DCFC, and 150 kW is still way better than the 50 and 62 kW chargers that dominate a lot of the smaller 1 or 2 port stations.

I stayed there last summer and I thought the room size was pretty good actually. The layout of the room was kind of weird though, so maybe that was a function of having been combined with another room at some point in the past.

I mentioned the number of basketball games because I think that’ll be the vast majority of events held at the arena, so I think it should be designed with that in mind. I think the majority of other events it might host would also fit well in a 5,000-seat building.

So even for their biggest games in history, they couldn’t sell out the Wolstein Center? I don’t think you want to size your arena for your absolute max expected crowd. I’d ideally want to have a few sellouts a year if the team is good. Those games would produce an incredible atmosphere and make the program better. Teams in the Horizon League generally average 2,000-3,000 fans for basketball, and the Cleveland Charge are also around 3,000 I think. A 5,000 seat arena sounds pretty well-sized for those expectations, and between the Charge, MBB, and WBB, that’s about 55 dates/year. If CSU is exceptionally good, they can always play some games at RMFH (maybe with the upper deck curtained off). Several teams have on-campus arenas, and bigger off-campus arenas for big games (St. John’s, UConn, etc).

I drove by this site today and there was a lot of heavy machinery on the lot and most of the trees were down:

It was bought by the Metroparks in the last year or two. In the last couple of months, the Metroparks also bought the Graincraft property. I know they’re pushing hard to get a riverfront boardwalk going, but I haven’t heard anything about their plans for the landlocked parcels.

That does look really nice! It looks like it could be a cool home for the Cleveland Charge, at least temporarily, whenever the Wolstein Center is torn down.

Glad to see a Red Line Greenway extension into downtown is being considered. I didn't realize the path would have to hang out off the side of the viaduct over part of the span. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/11/trail-advocate-lennie-stover-makes-headway-in-quest-to-extend-red-line-greenway-across-the-cuyahoga-river.html A couple of interesting (totally hypothetical) renderings (an amenity deck on top of the viaduct?):

Here’s the full presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/enwn6tzytpoqyzg/AACJWT6K-2NeNEOejUTSfk8Ea/Downtown Flats Design Review?dl=0&preview=Cuyahoga+Riverfront+Master+Plan+-+Cleveland+Clinic+Global+Peak+Performance+Center.pdf&subfolder_nav_tracking=1

I too love my EV, but lament that it takes longer to take on long trips. My point was that 8 hours for a 5 hour trip is a ridiculous exaggeration of the time penalty for driving an EV. It’s already much closer than that, and EV range and charging speeds are both steadily improving. If I hit traffic at 20% battery, I take solace in knowing that my car uses almost no energy when it’s not moving, and that moving slowly is dramatically more efficient, so I’ll be fine getting to my destination. This is not a concern that’s overlooked by EV enthusiasts; it’s one of many factors that are weighed in deciding if an EV works for your use case. Fast charging has so far shown to not be as detrimental to battery life as was initially thought: https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/impacts-of-fast-charging This will continue improving as battery chemistry is improved. Lithium Iron Phosphate is becoming very common and is much better in this regard. I think you misunderstood my suggestion of weekly fast charging. There are fast chargers at places like Walmart and Meijer, so someone without access to a daily charger could plug in for 45 minutes while shopping for groceries at one of those places and be good for the week. Just like getting gas for the week. Maybe it takes longer, but if you spend that time doing something you would have anyway, it’s not a big inconvenience. No one is suggesting DC fast charging for apartments (maybe you’re thinking of 240 V AC charging, which is far cheaper). I’m fully aware of the infrastructure issues, but they’re not insurmountable, and the solution certainly isn’t to give up and continue burning fossil fuels. And if we invest in the infrastructure, vehicle operation will be far cheaper for lower-income people (by virtue of lower operating costs, smaller-battery options, fewer health problems from tailpipe emissions, etc.)

I urge you to learn about about EV’s and charging from actual unbiased sources. It’s about 300 miles from Cincinnati to Chicago, so a long-range Tesla could theoretically make the trip with zero stops. One stop is more likely, and a supercharger would probably take on the order of 30 minutes, so maybe 5.5 hours. Even 2 stops (maybe it’s extremely cold and a short range Tesla) would take under 6 hours. Obviously, charging in the city is a known problem. The upside for such people is they likely don’t drive as much, and thus only need to charge weekly or so. DC fast chargers are often co-located with amenities such that they could recharge while doing their grocery shopping for the week for example. There are many other solutions involving increasing charging infrastructure, but it will never be necessary for every street-parked car to charge every night.

I do argue that viability is a good line to draw. The amendment is very specific that viability is determined on a case-by-case basis by your doctor. This is important for fetuses with defects that are viable later or are never viable. If there was a cutoff of a certain number of weeks, fetuses with anencephaly or other conditions that aren’t compatible with life could not be terminated, which places a huge unnecessary burden on the pregnant person. My son was not viable until about 26 weeks because he was growth restricted. He had numerous congenital defects that were discovered in-utero, and I would have appreciated the ability to terminate between 23 and 26 weeks had doctors determined that his conditions were not compatible with life outside the womb.

It seems like this type of stuff is planned for the lakefront. The North Coast Master Plan just did a presentation last week for the Planning Commission. The Haslams aren't putting it together, but the city and the Haslams are at least on the same page about development being needed there. The Browns have been amassing properties in Berea for 5+ years. In 2019, they increased their lease for 10 years, which keeps them there until 2038. That's where they want their headquarters to be, and any of their moves there started well before the recent batch of negotiations with Cleveland on a new stadium. As far as I can tell, they want to invest in Berea and the lakefront, which seems like a good thing.

On the Berea Planning Commission Agenda for 9/21, the Browns have applied to raze 8 more houses in the area of their training camp, circled here: That would leave just two houses on the northern block along Front St., one house on the Serpentini block, and no houses fronting the Browns' facility on Pearl St.

I thought this article sums up the extraction concerns of EV's vs. ICE vehicles nicely. Washington Post - Are electric cars really better for the environment? The article did later add that mining minerals generally requires much more material to be pulled from the ground, so by that metric fossil fuels "only" required five times as much matter to be extracted.

That's definitely what they have in mind. The Metroparks' Lakefront master plan from 2019 included future water taxi stops at those sites, plus the Coast Guard Station at Wendy Park and Whiskey Island Marina. I assume Irishtown Bend would get a stop too, and hopefully Scranton and Bedrock once they're built up.