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Re:Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away f... by browningstreet on Saturday December 16, 2023 @11:02AM (#38665193)
Have you been to the Netherlands?
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Re:Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away f... by facialwipe on Saturday December 16, 2023 @11:06AM (#38665232)
No
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Re:Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away f... by browningstreet on Saturday December 16, 2023 @11:22AM (#38665388)
Rains a lot. Pretty cold. Snows. Lots of bikes. But really nice biking infrastructure — of the kind that’s hard to imagine in places like North America.
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Re:Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away f... by henvic on Saturday December 16, 2023 @01:24PM (#38666523)
Doesn't snow as much, but the rain/wind can be pretty bad, and people still bike everywhere.
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Re:Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away f... by pdn1 on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:24PM (#38670072)
I used to work on my bicycle all winter in Canada when I was a kid... Delivering newspaper, daily...

When you a dressed right it ain't bad

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Re:Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away f... by maxerickson on Sunday December 17, 2023 @08:10AM (#38672612)
The population density is a bit of a factor. Like I live in a region in the US that is about the same size as Netherlands by area and has about 1/50th the population. And then if you go out west the difference gets starker than that.

Of course higher density parts of the US also don't really match up with the infrastructure that exists in Netherlands, but it's not unreasonable to expect the infrastructure in a given area to scale with the number of people in that area.

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