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> "Electric cars" are a patently ridiculous concept Weird take when electric cars are widespread and are for many people the best form of travel available (e.g
by shawabawa3 3y ago
> "Electric cars" are a patently ridiculous concept
Weird take when electric cars are widespread and are for many people the best form of travel available (e.g. particularly people who live rurally with rooftop solar)
They might be overhyped but to call them a "ridiculous concept" is at this point itself ridiculous
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoThey're a legacy crutch due to the existing ICE infrastructure. Eventually clean-slate implementations will outcompete the massive waste of maintaining the infrastructure originally built for something that doesn't even make sense anymore.
- bluejekyll 3y agoIt’s definitely important to scope where car replacements are most successful. And it’s not rural living. It’s in more dense urban and suburban areas, where most of your needs are within 2 miles, and also that there is decent public transit.
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoMost of the world's rural areas use bicycles or motorcycles almost exclusively. (Or even just animals like donkeys and horses.)