Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather

Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by bryanlarsen on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:58AM (#39029458)

In my experience in Canada, small rural communities typically do have public transportation. Small rural communities generally have a lot of elderly people, so most small towns provide a wheelchair accessible taxi-like service.

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by engineer_22 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:29AM (#39029904)

Rural New Yorker here, we also have low intensity public transportation (contract taxis, bus lines). As a busy professional, it would be too inconvenient for me to use, but as a busy professional I can afford to drive.

Walkable cities sounds nice, but I like having space. At this point of my life, living in a suburban community is desirable.

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:21AM (#39029786)

while retirement communities exist, that certainly isn't what I was describing.

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by bryanlarsen on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:26AM (#39029861)

I'm not talking about retirement communities. I'm talking about normal small towns where >50% of the kids move to the cities where the jobs are.

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:31AM (#39029935)

ooooh, you're not talking about retirement communities.

One wonders how the hay gets baled if most of the population is elderly people.

you don't actually understand what a rural community is.

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by bryanlarsen on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:07PM (#39030431)

In my experience, farmers don't live in rural communities. They live on farms. And 90% of them are over the age of 50.

Unless it's a Hutterite colony, in which case your point is entirely moot because they have 0 private transport.

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:31PM (#39030762)

now you're getting it. they drive into town because these areas don't have the density that cities do and the towns themselves aren't large enough to justify public transportation, especially considering that even the non-farmers typically will live many miles from where they purchase their groceries, etc.

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by bryanlarsen on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:45PM (#39030933)

My home town has public transport, called the Handi-Van.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redvers,_Saskatchewan

Population 1,000.

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:09PM (#39031261)

https://sk.211.ca/services/town-office-43/handi-van-transit/

> Eligibility

> Elderly individuals and those with special needs.

which is what I expected when I went looking, calling that public transportation is against the spirit of what we're discussing here.

My further guess is that the majority of the people in this town are elderly (retirement community).

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by earthling8118 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:15PM (#39036667)

So the town can afford dedicated transport for people who don't produce anything and your assumption is that it isn't feasible for those who do produce economic value? And it is somehow more feasible for each of those individuals to privately pay the costs?

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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:37AM (#39038688)

old people pay taxes, try again.

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