Portugal's infrastructure minister gets it:
“If we simply replace all combustion cars with electric cars, we will end up with the same kind of congestion, the same huge amount of lost time in traffic, the same unsustainable levels of road accidents, and the same struggle for public space."
“The car overwhelmed city life and it is something that must change.”
The owner's rooftop solar.
@clipperchip What are the figures then?
I drive an ev and I talk to a lot of other ev drivers on social media and most of them use their rooftop solar because the cost is neglible.
@clipperchip Yes they do live in an urban environment. Electric cars are very suited to the kind of short trip driving that city and suburban people do.
The people I'm referring to are not my "friends".
If you're unable to give me figures then I have to assume youre repeating something you heard somewhere.
@anne_twain @clipperchip
The electricity from PV on one's roof doesn't make one's EV sustainable. That's merely a psychological bandaid for the privileged, egotist mind.
No one is an island. Until all of society is running on renewables, driving an EV is stealing renewable electricity from more important services.
NOT driving a car AND pestering one's mayor for public transit so that others also don't have to drive a car – that's sustainable. But it requires letting go of suicidal egotisms
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