I think we should pay attention to the general trend of small form factor EVs in China. Yeah, the cars they make are cool, but they also have tons of small electric cargo scooter/moped things. And plenty of places to charge them for practically free.
One question, asking mostly out of ignorance. Aren’t EVs not supposed to be a long term solution, because of all the rare earth materials going into the batteries (lithium neodymium etc) I know they’re still used for other things, and they’re less polluting than fossil fuel vehicles, but aren’t there better options?
There is no long term plan, there’s barely a short term plan.
Have to hope EV’s are a stop gap to real public transport and city design (highly unlikely) or that batteries that don’t require rare earth materials are developed (possible but not given).
I think we should pay attention to the general trend of small form factor EVs in China. Yeah, the cars they make are cool, but they also have tons of small electric cargo scooter/moped things. And plenty of places to charge them for practically free.
That sounds amazing, fuck I wanna live in the 21st century so bad
One question, asking mostly out of ignorance. Aren’t EVs not supposed to be a long term solution, because of all the rare earth materials going into the batteries (lithium neodymium etc) I know they’re still used for other things, and they’re less polluting than fossil fuel vehicles, but aren’t there better options?
There is no long term plan, there’s barely a short term plan.
Have to hope EV’s are a stop gap to real public transport and city design (highly unlikely) or that batteries that don’t require rare earth materials are developed (possible but not given).