On one hand, I like that EVs are leaps and bounds above gas guzzlers. On the other, it does still reinforce our current car culture.
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Electric cars are the best solution available for people who live in car centric areas and can't afford to build their own train line.
We should also be trying to get walkable neighborhoods and adequate public transport, but I will very rarely tell someone not to replace their car with electric. It really is much better than the available alternatives.
i have an electric car and electric bicycle (american; suburb - forced car use). having an electric car is so much better than my old regular one not only because of emissions, but i have solar panels at home. free "gas" and never having to go to a gas station is super underrated.
i bike ~90% of the time, anyways, but its nice to never have to do any of that stuff. the car is 2.5 years old and it has ~7.5k miles on it... most of which was my wife driving my car when hers broke, heh.
cars will never be green. While cars have their use, we should limit the usage of 1 person per car.
This cartoon is almost easy to mistake for satire making fun of the anti-car people.
Y'all have to face the reality that cars are not going away. The roads will outlast every human being that reads these words. People will continue to travel on those roads in vehicles of some kind. EVs are the best option we have yet for making the roads' usage have less environmental impact.
You do realize those roads are only driveable because of extensive maintaince. If we stopped maintaining a specific road and built tracks instead, many people would choose the tram/train as the road would be too rough to travel at any decent speed after a few years. The infrastructure we build and maintain directly impact the mode people use. And currently many places exclussively build and maintain roads, often not even including the option of a sidewalk.
Yeah that's pretty funny because I've driven on unmaintained roads for decades. In my area we are lucky if they do any maintenance when there are road problems. Sometimes people have to clear trees from the road after storms, and it may be done by the county or a random guy with a chainsaw.
Also I learned to drive on gravel roads, drifting around corners to learn the innate balance of maintaining stability without traction. Even if the paved roads were ground down to gravel, we would still drive on them.
I've started listening to "Everything Electric" podcast and am increasingly getting irritated by the idea that the only solution is everyone getting rid of their ice car and getting an electric one.
I can't work out thats because it fits my rhetoric/approach (got rid of my car for an electric moped) or if I really believe it.
Good luck AmeriKa, you are way behind the 1st World and the fucking MAGAts will make it worse.