Latest comic: Electric vehicles gone wrong

I'm fine with the soft, whirring spaceship sounds that some EVs emit as a safety feature to alert people that they're moving. The new Dodge Charger EV comes with a deafening 126 dB roar, which is just plain obnoxious.

#cars #ev #evs #transportation #gender #marketing

@philip_cardella
But a lot fewer on the left are willing to buy Tesla's because of Elon, so it may cancel out. I really have difficulties justifying owning a Tesla with my family (we bought it in 2019 when it wasn't clear yet what a dolt Elon turned out to be).

And it is a good car. I would still recommend it.

#ev #ElonMusk

"An #EV is a good way to cut carbon #emissions, but so, it turns out, is a four-day workweek. Do them both, and a thousand other things—and fast—and we might have a shot. "

The first thing a good solar installer does is to make you beef up the insulation in your home: that way you need less solar on the roof.

S: build public transit and bike lanes first, then electrify the remaining cars.

#EnergyTransition #MineralMining #degrowth #JustTransition
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/to-save-the-planet-should-we-really-be-moving-slower

To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower?

Bill McKibben assesses the validity of the arguments that both degrowthists and those who are pro-green-tech make for how we should address climate change.

^{Bill McKibben (The New Yorker)}

Carbon emissions per 1 ton of steel = 1.8 tons

Not only will replacing combustion engines with electric motors still be carbon intensive, mining for battery minerals will devastate the landscape.

We need public transportation!

#carbon #climate #ev #cars #publicTransportation #steel