• cerevant@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    No doubt your logic is based on the carbon footprint of two cars - the old ice and the new BEV.

    Where that logic falls down is the old ICE becomes a more affordable efficient used car that can replace an older ICE that it blowing blue smoke. Further, new BEV become used BEV in a few years. Used BEV are becoming quite affordable and cost effective. They are also far outlasting their projected battery life.

    Finally, demand for BEV increases R&D on more efficient storage technologies that are cheaper and have a smaller environmental footprint.

    Yes, more and better public transport should be a thing. But the US is just too big - and in many cases too empty - for ubiquitous public transport to be cost or environmentally efficient.

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      1 year ago

      I disagree strongly about the US not being suitable for public transport.

      There are large cities that could introduce effective metro services and that would be a vast improvement.

      Rural areas can remain ICE/BEV.

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        1 year ago

        Show me one State, just a single one, where the majority of Cities have functional mass transit across the entire City which does not take five or six times what a personal vehicle going straight there takes. I’ll wait.