The link to “green energy push” in the title is pernicious. There are laws, laws are broken while mining, green energy per se should be left out of the title.

After how many half-lives, if any, can those materials be declared “cool”?

Clearly a mistake to focus con electrification where we don’t control the supply chain. Better to keep pumping oil where we… * checks notes *… Yeah, well, end of the press conference, nothing to see here.

I don’t say that biofuels don’t have a reason to exist but I have a feeling they are mentioned just to say something “alternative” to electrification

Buzz is a number divisible by 5 if you’re a programmer in an interview :)

But I agree, the numbers have to make sense. The problem is that there is not just one dimension (size would be the obvious one, but there can be SUV big (boo) and minibus big)

The engineering solution would be to simply make the number multidimensional when needed:

5 = sedan
6 = crossover
7s = bigger than crossover, but for SUV losers
7v = bigger than crossover, but towards being a van/minibus

Not as clean but better than VW Thingamajig Sport Edition. I don’t know a lot about car classifications, I would hope those names are kind-of maybe standardized