If they are electric maybe. Busses are loud as fuck.

Brakes are iron and copper, the latter is an environmental contaminant. But tires pollute zinc and a hundred other petrochemicals. One is causing big problems with fish - 6PPD, but there are likely others causing yet unseen damage. Between the two brake dust seems more manageable in stormwater.

But they increase particulate tire dust due to being heavier.

Rivian’s financial statements provide insight into its per-unit losses, though calculating an exact figure requires analyzing multiple variables. The company’s cost of goods sold (COGS), which includes direct production expenses, regularly exceeds revenue, leading to negative gross margins. According to its latest SEC filings, Rivian reported a gross loss per vehicle of approximately $39,000 in 2023, though this figure fluctuates based on production volume and operational efficiencies.

Not exactly a number they put in a press release, but as a publicly traded company it is published quarterly.

Rivian is losing about $30k per vehicle, but with much lower production numbers.

In addition to particulate nucleation sites, which help precipitation, combustion also creates new H2O vapor by consuming oxygen and freeing hydrogen from its carbon bond in fuel. While most may view this image as a simple CO2 equation, that’s not weather modification; it’s climate modification.

In an off-grid mountain community in the southern Sierra, a lifelong resident said in the pub that it used to rain every afternoon in the summer when he was young. Compared to now where it rains about every 10 days. By my estimate that was about the time smog was at its worst in the state, a time of 10mpg and muscle cars. I wonder if his memory was already an altered condition from natural.

Airdrop is two people at a time. Say we had a group of 8 people I don’t want to do 7 air drop exchanges to get all the photos.

I wanted something like this for weddings or group camping type events for sharing photos to multiple others at once.

We need to regulate vehicles by mass, which is directly proportional to the tires. Pay $0.10 per pound of vehicle annually.