• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    EVs always feel silly when I ride my ebike next to them. They’re the least-offensive kind of car, but that’s so much metal/infrastructure/space going into doing the same thing my bike does. All of that is hostile to the environment in so many more ways than just fuel consumption.

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      1 month ago

      Fundamentally you can’t really out engineer yourself out of the fact that using about 2 tons of metal to drive an average of 1,2 passengers somewhere is just inefficient

      • sisatici [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 month ago

        It is worse than that. They use some rare earth minerals too and thus, they release around 50 tons of carbon dioxide per car compared to 20-30 tons of carbon dioxide per combustion car