It is possible for a third party to arise in FPTP elections, but it's certainly not common or easy. The UK has a bunch; NZ had a couple before moving to MMP; I think Australia has some.
It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.
AOC might pull it off.
Here in NZ I believe they mostly can set their own routes, being 'independent' contractors.
I have heard Amazon in particular is super tight in the US.
More than half of Americans reported receiving at least one scam call per day in 2024.
What the actual fuck? I don't remember the last time I got a scam call; might not be this year.
I got a phishing email last week.
Apparently another reason to be glad I'm in NZ.
And probably drives on the most efficient route for their run.
You're about halfway along the run? They'll always pass you about halfway through the day.
Contracts basically always have conditions for each party to back out. There's probably a break fee but for leased vehicles it's probably not that significant.
As a construction company, the Tesla fleet is probably a pretty small portion of their vehicle fleet and cashflow.
Could also be some kind of 'bringing the business into disrepute' clause there.
I imagine something akin to a draft or arranged marriages. You're not married, you're not married, congrats you're now married.
I'm not too fond of calling this a 'tax'. Tax money goes to funding actually useful things. Conservatives want you to think that giving money to the government and throwing it down the toilet are the same thing.
That would likely be the winch, but yes, you'll need a nice large regenerating motor drive.
I would hazard a guess that a 40t-rated winch, 40t-rated 100m wire rope, and 40t-rated steel bucket to hold the scrap each cost more than a 10kWh battery.
I'm not liking their maths.
For a large shaft, we move weights up to 40 metric tonnes, which give us the capability to store up to 10 kWh of energy per 100 metres of depth.
40t ~= 400kN, so at 100m that's 40MJ. Sure, that's 11.1kWh mechanical, perhaps a little optimistic to say you'll get 10kWh back. That's a smallish home battery.
Where do you get another five-and-a-bit orders of magnitude from, to get to two gigawatt-hours?
Pumped hydro works because water is really really cheap and pretty easy to store, so millions of tonnes of water is doable, whether the height is tens or hundreds of meters.
Steel/iron/concrete is just too expensive. And you can't fit much in a five meter shaft compared to a lake.
The ~~Master~~ Mistress of ~~L-space~~ B-space.
It would have to be in a single district; attempting multiple would definitely fail.
NZ has had a number of individual electorates where the Greens* won the seat, Labour came second, and National 3rd. With a sufficiently left-wing area and a galvanised base, it's possible.