Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research Suggests

Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by CalRobert on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @06:56AM (#14451529)

"I live in LA."

You live in nearly the most bicycling-hostile place on the planet. This is important context for your comment.

Everyone's different, but my experience was that leaving LA did wonders for my mindset, health, and general well-being. Though, rather paradoxically, 90% of my bike commute (Santa Monica to El Segundo via Venice and Dockweiler beach) was great. That other 10% was brutal, and my ribs still hurt.

Also - "Nobody will use the bikes because the infrastructure doesn't exist." - perhaps that money could be used to build it?

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by groby_b on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:14PM (#14454171)

Using the money for infra would certainly be a better use than actually buying bikes. Ideally, we work on e-cars as well, because infrastructure projects move on the order of decades (SF does not hold the monopoly on NIMBYism :)

But while LA is certainly exceptionally bad, many cities in the US suffer from sprawl to an extent that bikes are, right now, impractical. (Which we need to change, no doubt.)

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by cr0sh on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:37PM (#14456132)

I'd love to bike to work; my commute isn't that long for it, actually. But for most of the year, it would be brutal. And my work doesn't have showers.

I live in Phoenix.

/right now it's 101 F / 38 C outside...relatively a cool day!

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by CalRobert on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:37AM (#14458791)

Phoenix is arguably not very well suited to human habitation without artificial life support... (air conditioning, which may prove necessary to sustain humans as the wet bulb temp increases)

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