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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities (theconversation.com)

submitted 11 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

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Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020, and one in 14 in the UK. Sounds impressive, but even if all new cars were electric now, it would still take 15-20 years to replace the world’s fossil fuel car fleet.

The emission savings from replacing all those internal combustion engines with zero-carbon alternatives will not feed in fast enough to make the necessary difference in the time we can spare: the next five years. Tackling the climate and air pollution crises requires curbing all motorised transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possible. Focusing solely on electric vehicles is slowing down the race to zero emissions.

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[–] mydude@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Let the exploitation-class cycle to Davos.

[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

honest question is it practical to shop for 4 people using a bike? how do we get around the need to move things? i,guess if you had an e bike and a trailer it could work?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I grew up in village (population ~3000, 0.85 mile²) and as a kid, the local butcher, greengrocer, post-office/local shop, two small grocery stores and an offlicence (package/ABC store) had literally everything you could need.

By the time the year 2000 rolled around they had been driven out of business by supermarkets that were 3x further away.

This isn't a solution but just a reminder that things were very different and it wasn't that long ago.

[–] daellat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Comes back to one of the biggest problems in USA: urban planning / zoning. No grocers etc in your neighborhoods is yet another factor in car dependance.

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[+] BurningRiver@beehaw.org -6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Yeah, I’ll just haul my kids around on an electric bike when it’s 20 degrees F (-7 C) with a windchill around 0 (-18 C), which also coincides with EVs getting absolute shit range because current batteries hate holding charges at that temperature. Also, I drive a 20 year old vehicle with 190,000 miles that I paid $3000 for 6 years ago or so. EVs and even E-bikes cost a whole lot more than that without the utility.

On top of that, calling vehicles that contain lithium batteries “zero-carbon” is laughable. The mining, refining, and manufacturing process in itself is an environmental disaster. I agree we need to find new modes of transportation powered by methods other than burning coal, natural gas, and dinosaur juice, but we don’t currently have the solution to this problem.

[–] Sebbe@lemmy.sebbem.se 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Manufacturing electric cars generates a bit more emissions than internal combustion cars, at least now while the technology is relatively young. Last time I read about it, an internal combustion car would catch up and pass the electric equivalent in emissions in a couple of years of normal use.

[–] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

I’m not against electric cars. One just doesn’t exist that meets my needs currently.

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