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Jef Poskanzer :batman:
Here's what I wrote: Electric cars are still cars. Electric cars fix one problem with cars completely: tailpipe emissions. They improve on another problem: overall energy use. They are worse on two car problems: embodied energy and resource use during manufacture, and greater vehicle weight causing more road damage and people damage. [continued] 3 comments
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I despise drive through lanes. My justification is they are hugely wasteful, and encourage idling. My wife asked why I still hate drive through with an EV, we aren't idling? My response is that our EV is not emitting anything, but we make the queue longer and all the other cars held up are emissions due to our EV in the lane. Same goes for traffic. Your car might not emmit anything, but the congestion due to your car is very real. |
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They are the same on a bunch of other car problems: kill a million people per year, are a hugely inefficient way to move people, emit microplastics from tire wear, take up half the space in cities, get in the way of buses and emergency vehicles, make drivers psychotic.
Electric cars are still cars, and cars are bad. Get an e-bike!