Re:The US Refuses to Fall in Love with Electric Cars
by legerdemain on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:08PM
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China's area is about 92,000 square miles less than the area of the US. The difference becomes more dramatic if you don't include Alaska.
Re:The US Refuses to Fall in Love with Electric Cars
by dont__panic on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:09PM
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Of course. But if you compare contiguous US (where 99% of people live and where 99% of people drive) to mainland China, you get very similar numbers. We don't include Puerto Rico or Hawaii or US military bases abroad in that square mileage of generally drivable US for the same reason.
Though that is using the Mercator projection, you can at least tell that the contiguous USA is damn similar to China in scale. Perhaps China is even more biased towards the one coastline, with sparse settlements to the West, but the USA essentially has a massive deserve/mountain range in the middle, too.