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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN
"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende
archive.today • Where E.V.s Are (and Aren't) Taking Off Across the U.S - The New York Times
I hate NYT interactive pages. This graphic is missing from the archive.today page.
They should ban ice personal cars, ensure that a compact cheap EV is affordable to the poorest through subsidies.
Otherwise you'll have anti-EV chuds riding around in their polluting oversized trucks, those should be melted down, complete waste.
i think hybrids are a better transitional tech, we could've had full-electric for 90% of commutes 40 years ago and then a small gas engine for maintaining highway speed if you're a braindamaged midwesterner trying to drive 11 hours from fargo to who gives a fuck on a family trip 2-3 times a year.
i'm allowed to say that, i grew up forced into doing that shit and it made me hate cars
The most environmentally friendly car is the one you already own.
By all means, ban new ICE vehicles. But you're not doing anyone any favors by ratcheting up how many new vehicles we produce
This is the thing, we can’t ban them all immediately but continuing to allow new ones to be built is absolutely insane
I think there are reasons to ban oversized trucks besides emissions. Pedestrian safety, traffic congestion and all.
But i agree with smaller cars.
So much of the "bigger car" argument is just "there are too many big cars so I need one too".
so many crossover SUVs are just lifted hatchbacks with some extra body cladding to make it look bigger on the outside.
they aren't even bigger on the inside!! wtf???
The most environmentally friendly car is the one you already own.
Engineering Explained says otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2IKCdnzl5k
TLDR: After 4 years of driving 12,000 mi/yr, a new EV (10,400 kg CO2e production cost) only emits 16,400 kg CO2e while a used gasoline car (0 kg CO2e production cost, gets 25 mpg avg) emits 19,200 kg CO2e.
The math gets fuzzier than that.
The Tesla 3 scenario above was for driving in the United States, where 23% of electricity comes from coal-fired plants, with a 54 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery and a cathode made of nickel, cobalt and aluminum, among other variables
It was up against a gasoline-fueled Toyota Corolla weighing 2,955 pounds with a fuel efficiency of 33 miles per gallon. It was assumed both vehicles would travel 173,151 miles during their lifetimes.
But if the same Tesla was being driven in Norway, which generates almost all its electricity from renewable hydropower, the break-even point would come after just 8,400 miles.
If the electricity to recharge the EV comes entirely from coal, which generates the majority of the power in countries such as China and Poland, you would have to drive 78,700 miles to reach carbon parity with the Corolla, according to the Reuters analysis of data generated by Argonne's model.
Of course, if alt energy continues to fill up the grid, you've got to plot that over a shifting timeline that gets better. But that also presumes you don't sit on a used car for five years and get in on the EV when the green energy split improves.
Disposing of a used vehicle has its own environmental consequences, too. And where are you going to throw those used batteries once we've fed all the ocean eels? Etc, etc.
I certainly don't trust a Tesla to outperform a Toyota or a Ford over the full 173,151 miles either. If your EV just plotzes on you, the math gets even worse.
I'm sure Biden banning Chinese EV imports will help this.
The feds: we want to transition to electric cars!
Also the feds: no we will not build any charging infrastructure
Anything besides Tesla is a non starter, you’re lucky to get one charging station every couple hundred miles and even luckier to have it work
So shit in fact that other manufacturers are trying to strike deals with Tesla to use their charging network, which is fucking insane, to grant a monopoly on charging to Tesla
If the feds were serious they would nationalize the Tesla network (HA!) or define a national standard and finance development of the network like the TVA. It is a good skilled jobs program
Note that for the cities with =>10%, they’re almost all either southern cities or central to north cities with relatively temperate climates (Denver being the exception), mostly Western US too. Part of that is likely to be that those are the places where it’s easier to build out the EV infrastructure, but I also suspect this is reflective of worries about battery efficiency/charge times in colder environments (more than half of the cities in the bottom twenty are northern cities).
See I was thinking more “Dale you giblet head, we live in Texas, it’s already 110 in the summer and if it gets 1 degree hotter I’m gonna kick your ass”
That second graph...
"gas and diesel" vs "gas and diesel but we added a hamster wheel" vs actually electric and therefore full of rare earth metals and explody bits
Places with money
Places with less money
Places with no money
I think I've seen one charging station in my area, once. If your residential wiring isn't very good, and you can't charge your car as easily as you can stop at one of the half dozen gas stations within a quarter mile, an electric car isn't going to be very compelling or practical. The infrastructure just doesn't exist in a lot of America for everybody to just have electric cars yet.
