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A typical family with two parents and 2.3 kids could easily make do with one EV and a minivan or SUV.  The dad drives the former to work, he can likely charge it there.  

The financial payout doesn't make sense, yet, but it's getting close.

Electricity here is about 6 cents per kWhr.  A Bolt battery is 66 kWhr capacity good for 258 miles (rated range).  That is about $4 for a complete recharge.  A Chevy Cruise getting 30 mpg would use almost 10 gallons of gas over that distance, call it $30.  If you consider oil changes and brake pads over say 100,000 miles ...

that would be 351 recharges total costing $1400 versus over $10,000 for the Cruise.  Add in 10 oil changes and one set of brake pads for the Cruise and it starts to look appealing, if I did the math right.

Hybrids for trucks strike me as very useful (regen braking included), especially if paired with a Diesel.  You need torque in a truck, often as not.

SpaceX is reportedly close to completing the assembly of a Super Heavy prototype, which will shoot Starship into orbit (msn.com)

Had we had this discussion ca. 1970, I'd guess much of it would be about space flight.  Today, not much, but stuff is happening.

I think robotic probes can do exploration, humans are only needed for colonization, in my view.  Mars and the Moon are obvious targets for the latter, but I think we're 20+ years off either.  The L5 points are interesting for colonization, but radiation remains a concern.

I could see using robots on  Mars to build a habitat, probably underground, for human occupation later.  We'd need energy, probably from a nuke, and shielding, probably from the Martian surface.  Then oxygen and water of course and food and waste reprocessing.

It would be neat to see the outline of a plan somewhere.  I have read that the Saturn V was over built for the Moon as von Braun considered it as something needed for Mars as well.  It burned 15 TONS of fuel PER SECOND in the first stage.

Would you personally buy a Diesel hybrid versus some gas truck if the mpg difference highway was say 33 mpg vs 24 mpg, and city was 27 mpg vs 18 mpg?

Presume the former had more torque but less hp.  This depends on where the price of fuel goes of course.

I've  said it many times before, but I actually prefer towing with SUVs over pickups. It has to be 4wd of course.

But the way I travel and use my toys, with a family of four and a large dog, having the enclosed space in the back is more valuable than having an open truck bed.  And SUVs are superior tow vehicles for slick boat ramps as well.

If Ford or Chevy still made a 3/4 ton Suburban or Expedition then that's the vehicle I'd have, but they both stopped doing that at least a decade ago.

A turbo/hybrid motor with regen braking on a 3/4 ton 4x4 Suburban would actually be my ideal tow vehicle, but I doubt we'll ever see something like that.

Pretty cool!

But those are still 1/2 ton tow ratings and payload capacities.  Old 3/4 ton Suburbans could tow up to 12,000 lbs.

My F150 with max towing package is rated to 11,500 lbs.  My travel trailer is 6500 lbs dry and can weigh up to 9500 lbs wet and loaded.