• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    TL;DR: Due to being smaller and lighter, electric bikes and mopeds require significantly less energy to move themselves around than an electric car. The article starts with a headline about “oil demand” but then spends much of the rest of its length harping on consumer monetary costs instead. I could have said that in a lot fewer words. Actually, I just did.

    Also, in SE Asia and other places where the primary mode of transport is a small motorbike, as it happens these small motorbikes actually pollute a lot for their displacement due to having basic uncomplicated engines, often not running very well, and lousy or absent emissions controls. ICE vehicles are also at their worst fuel consumption/distance traveled ratio when they’re idling or crawling around urban areas at low speed. Replacing these with electric versions just makes sense.

    Full disclosure: I own a gas guzzling truck, a fuel efficient car, seven motorcycles, and an electric bicycle. I use different tools for different jobs, as appropriate. If you’re looking for a magic bullet, you will probably need it in a few different calibers.

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      If you’re looking for a magic bullet, you will probably need it in a few different calibers.

      That’s a clever way to put it and I like it

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      1 year ago

      Over consumption is probably worse for the environment than petrol powered cars

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      If you’re looking for a magic bullet, you will probably need it in a few different calibers.

      This is an excellent phrase and I’m going to have to start using it

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Zlich. Because – stay with me here – I can only operate one of them at a time.

        “BuT tHe PrOdUcTiOn ImPacT!!!”

        I bought all but two of them used. That ship sailed before I even swung a leg over.

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          Buying second hand definitely reduced the impact. But it still creates a demand for second-hand that motivates people/companies to buy more new products because they know they can easily sell it back.