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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

No, because public transit is the future. I mean, EVs are fine and will have their place but we need better mass transit.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

I'm hoping for electric ferries and cargo ships one day.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

We already have some electric (hybrid) ferries in BC. I think its 2 with an order for 4 total?

Once shore power is installed on both ends of the routes (its going to take years for whatever reason) they'll then run 100% electric all the time.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Buses can be electric too ya know (and stuff like construction equipment). The money right now is in personal evs, but the manufacturing volume and rnd is pretty cross compatible

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's this one crazy electric construction vehicle that never needs to be charged, it generates all its own power. Some huge rock mover, drives up mountain with empty load and gets to the top near empty battery wise. Then fills up with tons of whatever it's hauling, and then uses regen breaking to fill the battery on the way down.

Rinse repeat.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

I just wonder about cost to produce batteries, lack of recycling, and the cost of a car accident with a battery powered vehicle involved. For that, I am so far uncertain of its sustainability.

Hydrogen.

[-] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

EV busses, boats, and other vehicles will still need batteries. and in the end the batteries can be sold elsewhere.

[-] Rocket@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Canada had a wonderful mass transit system when the vast majority of the population lived rurally. But the urbanization movement saw people move to where the high density allowed one to walk everywhere, so there wasn't much need for the mass transit anymore and eventually it was shut down.

Cars have driven cities to become woefully less dense than they used to be, which is why you see value in a return of mass transit. When you have rural problems (life being too far away to walk to), you need rural solutions. But isn't the even better solution to get the idea of cities being wannabe rural areas out of our heads completely and start densifying again?

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