YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation::When it comes to articles on a website like CleanTechnica, there are two kinds of articles. First, there are the … [continued]

  • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    While public transit is great. It’s a lot more expensive to setup, and even more expensive to make convenient if the city wasn’t built with public transit in mind.

    It’s just not a medium term solution for most north american cities, I do desperately hope that cities will start investing more in public transit, and encourage more dense housing, but realistically that is a 30-80 year timeframe. And that’s assuming 100s of municipal governments all get on board. The political lift here is also very large.

    The reality right now in North America is, if you’re heavily advocating against electric vehicles, all you’re really doing is adding support to the oil and gas industry trying to stop the outright ban of ICE cars.

    We need to do more public transit, and we need to stop using ICE vehicles.

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      11 months ago

      Actually maintaining car infrastructure is quite a lot more expensive than setting up public transit. The issue is that the effects of climate change are here and will get worse faster and faster while EVs are a drop in the ocean as far as solutions are.

      Sure, advocate for EVs if you want but don’t pretend they will have a meaningful effect with the environment unless you can replace every ICE vehicle globally and even then public transit would have a massively higher impact while easier and cheaper to implement.

      The highest impact for climate change would be to force the 10 or so companies that produce like 70% of CO2 to not do that or just bomb their factories or something.

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            11 months ago

            Roads don’t really go away with public transit, they might need less maintenance overall, but they still need to exist in some form, and roads lasting 10% longer doesn’t seem like a huge savings

            Parking is mostly privately owned, so saving money on parking doesn’t really make more money available to invest in public transit.

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              11 months ago

              Tram tracks last forever and don’t need roads. Also cars and trucks are responsible for like 90% of road damage, for example pedestrian roads last decades with zero maintenance. If cars and trucks got Thanos snapped the budget for road maintenance would be miniscule.

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                11 months ago

                I guess if you don’t include buses in public transit. And pretend that all people live within a 5km walk of existing public transit. You’re right.

                But otherwise you’re just oversimplifiying the situation and vastily underestimating how much it actually costs to build a full team network through rural areas.

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                  11 months ago

                  I’m saying build trams and trains, both require like no maintenance, are cheap to build and solve the most issues. It’s a better investment than EVs.

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                    11 months ago

                    You’re suggesting that teams and EVs solve the same problems. But they don’t.

                    EVs replace ICE vehicles. Public transit replace cars in areas that are dense enough to make them viable.

                    The reason public transit isn’t everywhere because they are expensive to build and maintain.

                    Yes build them, but suggesting that teams and trains are a replacement for EVs today is completely false and is only hurting your argument overall.