“If huge cars disappeared, the biggest losers wouldn’t be drivers but carmakers. Some of them have probably been kept alive by the outsized profits from SUVs. If we let SUVs keep fouling the planet we might as well admit there’s no sacrifice we’re willing to make for the climate.”

#TheWarOnCars #suv #suvs #climate #climatechange

https://www.ft.com/content/7612e3c0-0e10-4cfb-895d-40b2e5d083b9

"A single e-Hummer battery is roughly 350 times the size of the one in Rad Power’s popular RadRover 6 — which also costs $2,100 instead of $87,000 and up, and can use ordinary wall power instead of an expensive high-voltage charger. Put simply, mass e-bike adoption would give us hundreds of times more decarbonization for our policy dollar."

#evs #ebikes #thewaroncars

https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/how-cities-can-ignite-an-e-bike-revolution#

"...Angelenos who drive more tend to be exposed to less air pollution — and Angelenos who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution."

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2023-03-09/white-drivers-are-polluting-the-air-breathed-by-l-a-s-people-of-color-boiling-point

#TheWarOnCars #losangeles #driving #pollution

"Washington, D.C., will end most right-on-red turns by 2025. Already, the state of Hawaii has prohibited them on a tourist-dense stretch of road in Honolulu. The city of Berkeley in California is considering banning right on red at all intersections. Near the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the city last fall banned right turns at 50 signalized intersections in its downtown core."

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2023/03/07/states-consider-ending-right-on-red-to-address-rising-pedestrian-deaths

#thewaroncars #rightonred #cars #traffic