We don’t just need electric cars, we need fewer cars - Greenpeace International
www.greenpeace.org
Ever since the first production car rolled off the assembly line more than 100 years ago, our love affair with automobiles has grown and grown.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/58022486

Interesting article from 2018. But nothing has changed at all. Even the electric cars I see on the road are huge.

  • grueOPMEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Unless they’re really small, like kei cars in Japan, and have different infrastructure to match, it doesn’t do much good. They still take up the same amount of space in traffic because that’s dominated by following distance rather than vehicle length, and they still take up the same amount of space at rest because all parking spaces are the same size.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      6 days ago

      you do realize there are other factors than just the physical size they occupy, right? Smaller cars means they’re lighter (less wear on roads, less fuel usage, less damage when they hit things) and have better visibility.

      • grueOPMEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Yes, but the physical space they occupy is by far the most important one. It’s almost the entire reason we’re building our cities wrong.