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A screenshot of an ad for a car company advertising the Fisker Ocean, an electric SUV, claiming to be making “the world’s most sustainable vehicles”.
Does it disassemble into two electric bikes or four electric unicycles? 🤔
Better yet, 8 electric demi-cycles
16 electric pogo sticks
32 electric roller skates
64 heelys
128 fidget spinners
256 marbles
64 electric, umm… cock rings? Sorry, I do not know the polite term.
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Have these greenwashing ghouls never heard of an electric train or a bicycle?
Evidently not.
Why have those when you can have One More Lane TM
It’s sustainable, you just don’t understand the manufacturing process well enough. Seeds of old trucks are planted in the ground which generate the next truck crop for harvest in the fall.
most sustainable vehicle has always been and will forever continue to be the bicycle
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It’s marketing so it’s a lie.
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Addiction to cars make EVs sustainable
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As much as I hate SUVs, an electric SUV will probably have a lower carbon footprint than a small petrol car. Obviously the SUV is garbage for many other reasons, but generally speaking, ICE has a much lower energy conversion efficiency, and the oil supply chain is much dirtier than; even though per unit mass, lithium is worse, the sheer amount of petrol the ICE vehicle will consume over its lifetime will outweigh the production of the EV several times over.
The actual calculation depends on how dirty the power grid is in your area, or if you have solar panels.
Either way, I 100% agree that neither of these are good solutions and we should be pushing for public transit and bikes.
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