• 6bicycles [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    75 mile range in such a large country is absurd

    Why? People have a time budget for travel, not a distance budget.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      yeah but does china really have such extensive battery swapping stuff that you can stop by and do it like a fill up

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Is it a deliberate strategy to have people go by train and disincentivice car traffic? If so it is based.

          • Gimasag [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Yes, I know Beijing has a lottery for new license plates, and Shanghai has an auction. Other cities use a combination of the two methods from what I've heard, so that less well-off people have a chance while also allowing them to raise some significant revenue from the wealthy. These restrictions on new license plates allow the cities to manage congestion and keep air pollution low. Also, there are separate quotas for hybrids/electric cars which give better lottery odds.

      • 6bicycles [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I don't know, my point was more that 75 mile range is fine for large swaths ofs people. Size of the country has little correlation with distance of trips taken, that's mostly a planning thing.