Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars

• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s really efficient in densely populated areas but inefficient in sparsely populated areas.

  While it should be everywhere eventually , the focus should definitely be on cities first.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    how is connecting smaller towns/villages to bigger placed by train inefficient?

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They may have been talking about economic inefficiency, if you don’t have a busy enough route to justify the initial investment.

      And in the US at least, there is a LOT of land, and huge amounts of it are sparsely populated. But that still adds up to a lot of people.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The more stops you have for a train, the slower, more expensive, and less efficient it is. They like hauling for long distances without stopping.

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      • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        still more efficient than anything else…

        and then usually how it works is that some trains go local and stop everywhere and others are intercity and stuff and stop at less stations etc.

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    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The last miles are a huge problem in villages. Train stops and you then walk 5 miles every time? The bus needs to ride every 30 minutes to bring along 5 people that’s super expensive.

      Also everyone there already has a car anyways since it’s basically required there.

      Cities however can use public transport far more efficiently.

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      • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        you do realize trains are part of the public transport and no reasonable person would think you can’t take a car to the train station?

        what do you think I am talking about? a bus going every 30 minutes to every house in bumfuck nowhere on the off chance they get a passenger?

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