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> “Encouragingly, attitudes toward car ownership do appear to be changing, with younger Londoners increasingly replacing little-used vehicles with car club memb
by dm319 9y ago
> “Encouragingly, attitudes toward car ownership do appear to be changing, with younger Londoners increasingly replacing little-used vehicles with car club membership and ride-sharing apps,” he said.
I'm not sure an environmental conscience is the reason, rather the cost of keeping your car taxed and insured, then finding somewhere for it to stay in London, and then finding a use for it, outweighs simply using public transport.
The article doesn't talk about electric cars reliance on whatever powers the national grid of that country - and they can only be as green as the country's means of energy production[1], although that is still better than a petrol/diesel car for most countries.
[1] http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-cars-green http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-cars-green
- chriswarbo 9y ago> I'm not sure an environmental conscience is the reason, rather the cost of keeping your car taxed and insured, then finding somewhere for it to stay in London, and then finding a use for it, outweighs simply using public transport. That's (part of) the reasoning behind car tax, petrol tax, etc.: to turn vague, idealistic goals (environmental concerns, efficient public transport rather than umpteem invididual cars, etc.) into concrete economic decisions. The problem arises when these start to be abused, e.g. getting more people to drive in order to raise tax revenue ;)
- zamalek 9y ago> The article doesn't talk about electric cars reliance on whatever powers the national grid of that country Right! You'd be delusional to think that EVs are somehow solving pollution. However, they are almost like debt consolidation - each EV on the street becomes cleaner as each coal power plant is decommissioned. Burning dead dinosaurs in an engine will always be burning deal dinosaurs.
- dTal 9y agoI hope it's not delusional to note that, even if you're burning fossil fuels to power your EVs, at least you're not doing it in the middle of urban environments, mere feet from houses, businesses, and sidewalks.