[s7r]

When people "trade-in" a gas car for an EV, those gas cars are usually re-sold to peripheral countries with less regulations, where they continue running on dirtier fuel [1]. The emissions of the gas car continue, plus the embodied emissions of buying a new gas car and the ongoing emissions from the fossil fuel sources of electric charging.

Vehicles that weigh 4,000 pounds, primarily designed to move 250 pounds of people, are inefficient by design — there will never be enough materials or energy on Earth to change that. This will continue showing itself in pollution and other externalities, such as the significant microplastic pollution that comes from car tires [2], and the fact that EVs — which wear through tires faster — are making rubber one of the leading sources of Amazon deforestation [3.]

Of course, if you want to see solutions — they are buried all around us in North America, and exist all around us in many other parts of the world [4]. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in realizing solutions together, or just want to learn more. Contact in profile.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/21/africa/west-africa-benin-used...

[2] https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majorit...

[3] https://e360.yale.edu/features/rubber-plantations-deforestat...

[4] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19QpVabRn0RexxN1GYFbDojXr...

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Nice initiative. Particularly for civilians doing daily activities, biking and walking seem like the best forms of transportation. They enhance personal happiness, increase community connections, make streets safer, and promote beautiful surroundings.

[s7r]

Thank you for the kind words! I would agree — and I think there are some more fundamental approaches, like housing density paired with in-fill of retail and shops, that can make that more accessible from the ground up. Literally!