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People around the world are demanding clean air — and cities are starting to respond, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. She takes us on a world tour of urban areas that are working to fully electrify their transportation systems over the next decade, shifting to emission-free motorcycles, cars, buses, ferries and beyond. See what a future without the internal combustion engine could look like — and what it will take to get there.
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whatever they do, first they have to detox the deep state.
@Dacian Kolkhuis Tanke good luck with the vaxx.
Qanon is a 4chan pych op, people shouldn’t have to tell functioning adults not to believe everything they read on the internet
@Oofer Doofer so you think that the virus is zoonotic and just happened to jump from bats to humans just after Event 201. Right OK!
@Honest Person Yes, the virus is clearly zoonotic. Zoonotic viruses are a regular occurrence, not exactly a strange unprecedented event. But you seem to be too far down the rabbit hole with the bullshit conspiracy theories.
Altough I hope this is true, I think this is wishful thinking. It is not up to the city to make these decisions, the government will decide otherwise.
I hope all said here comes completely true one day!
(Alexander Pashkov — comment author):
О! Русские суптитры! Круто блин!…
This is what we hope will be in the near future
quite useless talk… so useless that it is even demotivating with respect to buying an electric car…
it would be much better if she highlighted progress with the autonomy and recharging times of electric cars. If I need to drive 5000 km in a week, I probably would not be able to do this on an electric car. At least this was the case a few years ago. So the question is whether there is any progress on this front.
It costs 5 dollars to take the bus.. thr r no bike lanes.. kids r driving around in lambos off of video game stream money..
Nothing makes any sense
Just going to move it somewhere else. So you can pretend it doesnt exist and get to tax the population and limit their resources.
Getting clean (addiction euphemism) and sobering up from oil is no easy task. That gargantuan chore is compound by the pervasiveness of the myth of the rugged individual. Henry Ford didn’t invent the automobile. Nor was what he invented mass production. What he invented was democratized personal mobility.
Democracies don’t just vote with ballots on constitutionally prescribed dates. They vote every single minute of every single day with their lifestyles and the wallets that support them. So then the elephant in the room becomes not the smog everyone is breathing, but the enormous income and wealth inequality that has perennially been encouraged to fester!
Bravo – We can do this.
China: more than 420,000 electric buses
US: around 600
These people obviously don’t know how most of the electricity is produced
You really think that this person doesn’t know how electricity is produced? Electricity produced by even the worst methods, such as coal, is much more efficient than having millions of vehicles with their own power plant. Think of the process to extract the oil, then refine it, transport it to each gas station and then burn it in the engine. Electricity only needs to be produced at origin and is transported instantly by cables to your charging station or home. Also, ICE are much less efficient than electric motors, because they produce immense amounts of residual heat which needs to be removed from the engine in order to keep it working. They are also much more complicated and expensive to build and maintain. Now imagine if your electricity mostly comes from solar, wind, wave power, or even nuclear.
Conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 17%-21% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels. An electric motor typically is between 85% and 90% efficient.
The sun and volcanoes drive easily over %95 of the planet’s climate, just not here but in the entire solar system. Sure blame man and point out that only minorities are effected.
If you already agree that pollution is bad you can skip the first two min
and all that electricity needs to come from renewable and good sources.