Re:We can do better than “same, but electric”
by UncleOxidant on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @12:39PM
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> So instead of changing to an electric car that has a massive material footprint and takes up the same amount of space on the road as a petrol car, buy a bike
And/or maybe we need to rethink the size of the "cars" (actually SUVs) we're driving around in. Not all trips are doable by bike (weather, health, etc are limiting factors). Instead of electric SUVs we should be looking at smaller vehicles like the Aptera [1] which uses much less power than most other electric cars (less than half the power / mile than a Tesla) and as such is practical to charge overnight with only 110v. (I hear the objections now - "but it's only got 2 seats", sure, but that's fine for like 99.9% of my trips. "But you can't go grocery shopping with that thing", take a look at some of their videos where they go shopping at Costco and get more stuff in there than most of us would need in a month.)
And/or maybe we need to rethink the size of the "cars" (actually SUVs) we're driving around in. Not all trips are doable by bike (weather, health, etc are limiting factors). Instead of electric SUVs we should be looking at smaller vehicles like the Aptera [1] which uses much less power than most other electric cars (less than half the power / mile than a Tesla) and as such is practical to charge overnight with only 110v. (I hear the objections now - "but it's only got 2 seats", sure, but that's fine for like 99.9% of my trips. "But you can't go grocery shopping with that thing", take a look at some of their videos where they go shopping at Costco and get more stuff in there than most of us would need in a month.)
[1] https://aptera.us/