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I used to be a huge enthusiast of electric cars. Mostly because I was terrified of the consequences of peak oil. In time I got over this infatuation as I realiz
by abraxas 1y ago
I used to be a huge enthusiast of electric cars. Mostly because I was terrified of the consequences of peak oil. In time I got over this infatuation as I realized that electric cars are only marginally better than fossil cars in terms of resource sustainability and 100% as traffic jam inducing and socially isolating as the dinosaur juice counterparts.
The way forward is to ditch the idea of ubiquitous driving for every errand and to focus on building truly sustainable habitats on a scale that makes them places comfortable for people and not for cars. Because it's an either or situation. You can make a city comfortable for people or one comfortable for cars but you can't accomplish both in the same time.
For that reason I'm ultimately no longer interested whether electric propulsion in personal cars catches on or not. There are more important things to address in terms of true sustainability.
- lifestyleguru 1y agoIt takes enormous concidence for bicycles to succeed to the extend they do in e.g. Dutch cities, or Copenhagen. It takes flatish land, infrastructure, mentality, achieving certain critical mass. In many places bicycle is used as a status symbol the same as a car ie. people drive their super sport carbon bicycle during days off, while during work days prefer to be stuck in traffic in their expensive car. Walking only will never be feasible in any largish city. Metro system is an order of magnitude more complex, only low hundreds of cities globally can afford it.