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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.
How are these noobs not aware of the existence of bicycles?
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.
It's marketing so it's a lie.
Addiction to cars make EVs sustainable
most sustainable vehicle has always been and will forever continue to be the bicycle
Not trying to advocate petrol cars because public transport and cycling are obviously the most sustainable means of transportation, but I fucking bet that a tiny 3 cylinder 1 litre petrol shitbox is more sustainable than electric SUVs... At least it can last more than 5 years on the road and be easily repaired.
Ordinary petrol or diesel SUVs are often piece of shit because they are too flimsy to off road, not to mention how inefficient they are. Electric ones are no different, except that they are built like an appliance that is going to go to a landfill after its warranty ends.
I know this is not an objective comparison, but I was shocked after renting and comparing Peugeot e208 and e2008 for a couple of trips. e208 is an ordinary electric compact car, while the e2008 is an SUV built on the same powertrain. Guess what? The hatchback is quick, nippy, easily maneuverable, while its fat cousin is sluggish, sloppy and uncomfortable due to its weight and height. Utter garbage.
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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