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As an intermediate step to electric, I don't know why we couldn't have gotten by with smaller, less powerful engines. Our huge vehicles are so wasteful. Simpl
by supportengineer 2y ago
As an intermediate step to electric, I don't know why we couldn't have gotten by with smaller, less powerful engines. Our huge vehicles are so wasteful. Simply putting vehicles (across the board) on a massive diet in a short span of time would have made a huge reduction in fossil fuel use for transportation.
- ghaff 2y agoAnd many people aka customers in the US didn’t want that.
- qball 2y ago>I don't know why we couldn't have gotten by with smaller, less powerful engines. CAFE standards made cheap light trucks illegal; to a point, they also make cheap small cars illegal (ignoring the absurd collision standards- 2005 cars and 2020 cars are not meaningfully different; but in 2005 the average car on the road was still under 3000 pounds). As always, power without accountability. No bureaucrat or lawmaker is getting fined or voted out for these stupid standards that have done untold economic damage, and this crap will continue until they are.
- hackable_sand 2y agoFind the problem in the aggregate. If we have these powerful motors working less, then the inefficiencies of the entire life cycle will reveal themselves. Perhaps there is a specific section of vehicle infrastructure near you that requires more turnovers to navigate. I bet most town halls are amenable to data given their civil engineering capacity.
- quickthrowman 2y agoPersonal transportation only accounts for ~13% of oil usage in the US, which is easily the most car-centric country.