EVs always feel silly when I ride my ebike next to them. They’re the least-offensive kind of car, but that’s so much metal/infrastructure/space going into doing the same thing my bike does. All of that is hostile to the environment in so many more ways than just fuel consumption.
Fundamentally you can’t really out engineer yourself out of the fact that using about 2 tons of metal to drive an average of 1,2 passengers somewhere is just inefficient
It is worse than that. They use some rare earth minerals too and thus, they release around 50 tons of carbon dioxide per car compared to 20-30 tons of carbon dioxide per combustion car
bollocks to that, EV cars are enviromentally better. Sure, there’s problems there politically as per the idiotic plans to junk 8 gajillion ICE cars and replace them with new ones and such, but the concept is sound in the sense that it’s the least worst car. It’s just that least worst car is still pretty bad considering how they’re used and the whole endeavour about the EV car revolution is not about saving the planet, it’s about saving car sales
The upfront cost is higher but they win out over time and distance driven. They’re still bad for all the reasons cars are bad but they’re better then ice cars
Yup, I have colleagues who live closer to the office than me who take 50% longer to get in because they’re competing with a train and a commuter scooter.
Literally paying for a vacation with the cash it saved me, and I’ve managed to read a dozen books and play tons of retro games. I love cars and car culture, but fuck me it’s so dumb to use a car when there’s other options. Like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.
EVs always feel silly when I ride my ebike next to them. They’re the least-offensive kind of car, but that’s so much metal/infrastructure/space going into doing the same thing my bike does. All of that is hostile to the environment in so many more ways than just fuel consumption.
Fundamentally you can’t really out engineer yourself out of the fact that using about 2 tons of metal to drive an average of 1,2 passengers somewhere is just inefficient
It is worse than that. They use some rare earth minerals too and thus, they release around 50 tons of carbon dioxide per car compared to 20-30 tons of carbon dioxide per combustion car
bollocks to that, EV cars are enviromentally better. Sure, there’s problems there politically as per the idiotic plans to junk 8 gajillion ICE cars and replace them with new ones and such, but the concept is sound in the sense that it’s the least worst car. It’s just that least worst car is still pretty bad considering how they’re used and the whole endeavour about the EV car revolution is not about saving the planet, it’s about saving car sales
The upfront cost is higher but they win out over time and distance driven. They’re still bad for all the reasons cars are bad but they’re better then ice cars
Yup, I have colleagues who live closer to the office than me who take 50% longer to get in because they’re competing with a train and a commuter scooter.
Literally paying for a vacation with the cash it saved me, and I’ve managed to read a dozen books and play tons of retro games. I love cars and car culture, but fuck me it’s so dumb to use a car when there’s other options. Like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.