Small, efficient gasoline vehicles are prohibited by CAFE standards in the US, but EVs are exempt. Generally new EV manufacturers have been starting with high-end vehicles, and working their way into mid-range, with hopes on eventual low-range vehicles.
Because EVs are exempt from CAFE standards, it does open up a niche at the very low end, and Slate and Telo are starting up production in that market, so one of their vehicles might appeal to you.
Don't they use the same IEC 62196 ports as other EVs, outside the US?
They made their own in the US, because the standard SAE J1772 combo port is an unweildy behemoth, then they released the patent into public domain, and the rest of the automotive industry adopted their port into the NACS port, which beats both IEC 62196 and SAE J1772 in available power, all in a much smaller and easier-to-use connector.
The article says it damages the blood-brain barrier, not the brain. A damaged blood-brain barrier increases the chances of illnesses and drugs affecting the brain, but in and off itself damaging the blood-brain barrier doesn't directly damage the brain.
Try building a house, especially in California. You hire an engineer to draw up plans that comply with all regulations, and file a permit with the county. They wait several months, point out some random thing, and request proof that it is compliant. Your engineer shows the math, citing the building code that says to use it, and you give that to the county. Several months later, the same thing happens again.
I know a contractor that, after retiring, bought a lot and submitted plans to build his dream house. Ten years later, the county gave in and approved his permit, but he was too old to build the house. There's a big difference between 65 and 75.
Anything that is not automatic ministerial approval is common law, not civil law, and it lets the government do whatever they feel like doing, regardless of what the laws actually say.
With the current administration, I can easily imagine a lot of people would not be willing to do as much as risk rocking the boat. And that's even if they didn't say other things not included in the published article.
Criticise such fear if you wish, but it's a very human response.
Temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) tend to be pretty terse, but they do usually call out "VIP" if they're due to someone visiting.
The type listing of "security" gets thrown around a lot, though. For example there's a permanent security TFR around the closest Air Force base to me (https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_5_8746) because they regularly fly unmanned aircraft that can't fly in insufficiently controlled airspace, and the standard airspace layout around an airport of that size isn't sufficient, so instead of making special rules for that airport, there's a "security" TFR to give air-traffic controllers extra control of what would normally be uncontrolled airspace.
It is pretty unusually to get such a short notice, and to not have instructions for exemptions.
No exemptions for medical life flights, local law enforcement, or even the military. You can read a more normal NOTAM posted for New Orleans likely for Mardi Gras (https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2231)
As a Minnesotan I wonder what this does to the deportation flights going to and from Camp East Montana.
Because EVs are exempt from CAFE standards, it does open up a niche at the very low end, and Slate and Telo are starting up production in that market, so one of their vehicles might appeal to you.
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