Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
by xyzelement on Saturday December 24, 2022 @11:57PM
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Careful because inevitably someone would classify you as "high consumption" and try to halve you.
Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
by defrost on Sunday December 25, 2022 @03:37AM
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Unlikely - I literally grew up cheek by jowl with traditional hunter gathers in the Kimberleys, on a personal level my consumption is well below the Australian mean, which itself is well below the central north american norm.
I'm comfortable getting by for months on end sans most things - global field geophysics was an extended jolly.
A fantastic point!
Unfortuneately undercut by absolute truth (rather than per vehicle comparisons) that
* the number of vehicles (both in the US and globally) has substantially increased in number since the 1970s,
* many of the older vehicles with the poor performance are still active on roads somewhere,
* the nature of vehicle use in western countries has changed - while the efficiences for both cars and SUVs may have improved, the proprtion of SUV usage (with lesser efficiencies) has significantly increased.
I wouldn't advocate killing all humans and animals, but there's much to be said for halving the number of high consumption humans ...