Lets not be disingenuous. Even though public transport is the way to go, supported by some shuttles in special use cases and the rare electrical car in use, Electrical Vehicles are the way to go.
There is a reason that a large amount of new cars in China are electrical ones and it isn't the case that electrical cars have to be expensive - in fact they are typically average priced and can be cheap, especially if you compare the virtually non existing gas costs (15-25$ per month).
Furthermore the lifetime cost of repair seem to be cheaper for electrical consumer vehicles.
Everything I said isn't true for Teslas though, they ought to burn. Also in the US the insurance for electrical cars is surprisingly expensive compared to Vietnam and Germany.
It is coming from cleaner and cleaner sources. Compare the MPGe from 2015 to 2018.
In the midwest you went from "a prius is more efficient" to "a bit better than a prius" in just three years, a clean doubling, but not all that great. At the same time, places like NY and CA went from "significantly better than a prius" to "2-6 Prius equivalents", once again in just 3 years. I'm interested to see where things get a few more years from now (keeping in mind that the most recent data I found is already three years old now).
The power grid is getting cleaner, and an electric vehicle will naturally be in lockstep with that. There are many other concerns, including "cars bad" of course, but this is not one of them imo.
Ah great! Where does electricity comes from again?
it's free, just comes out of the wall
Yeah, from the special 220-volt outlet that you have installed in your garage. What, you don't have a garage? :hillary-apartment:
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Lets not be disingenuous. Even though public transport is the way to go, supported by some shuttles in special use cases and the rare electrical car in use, Electrical Vehicles are the way to go.
There is a reason that a large amount of new cars in China are electrical ones and it isn't the case that electrical cars have to be expensive - in fact they are typically average priced and can be cheap, especially if you compare the virtually non existing gas costs (15-25$ per month). Furthermore the lifetime cost of repair seem to be cheaper for electrical consumer vehicles.
Everything I said isn't true for Teslas though, they ought to burn. Also in the US the insurance for electrical cars is surprisingly expensive compared to Vietnam and Germany.
I don't have faith in any non human powered transportation solution. :a-guy:
Electricity is stored in the balls.
From the holes.
a big factory farm of pikachus of course
:vegan-liberation-rad:
It is coming from cleaner and cleaner sources. Compare the MPGe from 2015 to 2018.
In the midwest you went from "a prius is more efficient" to "a bit better than a prius" in just three years, a clean doubling, but not all that great. At the same time, places like NY and CA went from "significantly better than a prius" to "2-6 Prius equivalents", once again in just 3 years. I'm interested to see where things get a few more years from now (keeping in mind that the most recent data I found is already three years old now).
The power grid is getting cleaner, and an electric vehicle will naturally be in lockstep with that. There are many other concerns, including "cars bad" of course, but this is not one of them imo.
Your Tesla PowerWall of course!