I don’t think it’s required to be a professor to tell this. It’s pretty obvious that a 2 ton car is worse for the climate than a 15 kg bicycle. They also do completely different things though.
The article seems to bash on electric cars for no particular reason.
You know what would be even more environmentally friendly than even bicyling to work? Staying at home. Working from home could save a lot more and doesn’t require infrastructural investments.
Anyway, the percentages mentioned are still quite low. It would make a larger difference to focus on other kinds of transport than personal vehicles.
There are larger fish to catch. One of them is the ships. A lot of them transport fuel. Changing personal transport to electric cars, regardless of how efficient they are or not, will also have the effect of lowering the amount of fuel to be shipped around. The environmental impact of distributing fuels is larger than the impact of personal vehicles, so by all means, we should change as many industries and transport forms to electricity instead of fuel, including personal vehicles.
I have 30km there and 30km back from the from the shops on country roads. An electric car seems a safer and more practical way to encourage a change in my circumstances.
Old mate commented before reading the headline 💀💀💀
You do you, other people live in the city
There is also a social engineering aspect. Our populations and cities have been developed in a spread out fashion with services and shops established in hubs. They aren’t the villages of the early 1900s. The car was the major design influence, hence the problem. Some people are lucky and can walk, others are able to cycle however many just can’t conceive anything other than a car. That’s where EVs come in.
I don’t see how that’s relevant but yes
The relevance is the difficulty in convincing people who live in cities designed for car traffic to stop driving and start walking. Distances are large enough to get significant push back.
The cities need a glow up first. But it’s more than just an infrastructure problem. To my knowledge there’s no laws requiring grocery store chains to not have a monopoly or not be hella far away
