Comment on ‘The early adopters have adopted’: US carmakers slow their EV growth plans

• burchalka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hmm, you sound like you’re describing electric cargo bike 😉 But seriously, much lower dead weight to actually carried ratio, lower speeds… The only missing part of the puzzle is safe infrastructure (separate lanes, prioritized traffic etc.)

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  • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Eh I usually go around with my non-cargo and non-ev bike and it solves around 90% of my mobility problems. The rest is unfortunately up to the car since going to office means 2 hours of train + tram + walking but by car it’s around 35-40 minutes including finding a parking spot. And then there’s the occasional very large and big item (like furniture and tools) that I need to bring around and my car is sometimes not big enough for that, forget about a cargo bike.

    I’d rather rent a car when I need it, but it’s around 120€ per day, max 100km, plus gasoline and it is unpractical because you don’t know of there are cars available. Once I needed to bring a big table and it was cheaper to hire a moving company for a couple of hours than renting the big SUV and do by myself

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    • burchalka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Your 90% bike usage already lessens the environmental impact of your driving, while also adding personal health benefits, so please keep doing that 🙏

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• Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or maybe a billion dollar research grant to get solid state batteries out, which seem to solve all of these problems

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What exactly are you referencing when you say “make them efficient”?

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