Aye, but they’re still cars.
Electric cars are starting to take over the world
Submitted 4 days ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electric-vehicles/electric-cars-starting-take-over-world
Comments
doleo@lemmy.one 3 days ago
its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good!
Cars suck. Huge cars suck more. But without the biking infrastructure and culture of, say, the Dutch, it’ll be hard to get people in small cities, suburban, and rural areas off cars.
I went from a bolt EV with a 108 mile commute across Oregon to a bike in the Netherlands. Didn’t touch a car for a year. I could get everywhere by bike, carried my Xmas tree home via bike, and even on rural rides the culture and rules mean cars wait and work around you. Its incredible.
You can not hope to replace cars until bikes are the cultural, social, and urban planning focus of private transportation.
doleo@lemmy.one 3 days ago
I agree with everything you’ve said there, but I don’t see how “electric cars taking over the world” has got anything to do with getting people onto bikes.
So, for me, it’s not ‘perfect being the enemy of good’, because in this sense the news is not good.
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I don’t own a car because public transit is sufficient 90% of the time. I rent for the other 10% and always take an EV, they are so much fun to drive and the technology has improved significantly in the last 10 years. Great news!
sanzky@beehaw.org 3 days ago
I honestly miss my car free life. unfortunately housing price was too much in the city and I had to move out, which forced me to buy a car.
LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 3 days ago
Must be nice to live in a country with a competent public transport network.
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
It really is, biggest luxury I could imagine
MyOpinion@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I just got mine a month ago.
GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
We’ve had ours for about 2.5 years now. We love it, it’s really enjoyable to drive. I love the simplicity of them the most. I just got a new truck too, and I wish I could have got an EV that would have worked size wise and price wise. It runs on dead dinosaurs and feels like one.
sanzky@beehaw.org 3 days ago
enjoying it? I got mine today! An evil chinese EV!
MyOpinion@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I absolutely love my EV. For the same price as my gas car I now have a car that I get to drive for free because of my solar.
LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 3 days ago
They’re taking off in China specifically.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 days ago
Meanwhile legacy US automakers are busy trying to bury their heads in the sand again. I’m sure that will end well for the US economy and consumers.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
It’s a textbook example of protectionism ending up with industry leaders slowly going bankrupt. It didn’t start with EVs, but it might end with them.
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 3 days ago
They’re essentially forcing the US car market to become Cuba. The entire American car fleet in 2030 will probably be composed of decaying 2010’s cars still. It’s a stupid self-embargo, and will only delay their bankruptcy.