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0 pointsGibbon15y ago0 comments

> 1st, you're assuming people can charge at home - assuming they have a garage and access to power. This isn't true for a huge portion of the population.

So what, figuring out how people without a designated parking space can change their car is trivial compared to trying to undo global warming. Also Covid has shown us how much disruption we can actually tolerate, hint: a lot more than the powers that be want you to believe.

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ntsplnkv25y ago

This is a textbook strawman.

> So what, figuring out how people without a designated parking space can change their car is trivial compared to trying to undo global warming.

No it isn't. NYC has limited space. There simply isn't enough room for a charger for every car. That is a nontrivial problem with extreme cost. You can't just handwave it away.

smileysteve5y ago

NYC and San Francisco are about as strawman as it gets, because the cars AND trips per capita are some of the lowest in the U.S.

ntsplnkv25y ago

Because of the infrastructure surrounding it - e.g. fleets of cars taxis, public transit, etc. In other words, better options than having an owning an EV, which, if you pay attention, is what we're talking about here.

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Gibbon1OP5y ago

I spent 25 years living in San Francisco. What I know is I put about 6000 miles a year on my car. Of which about 4000 was around the city. Assuming a city dweller with a car charged it every 200 miles, that's be once every two and half weeks.

That doesn't seem impossible, just merely inconvenient. On the same level of having to wash your clothes at a laundromat. It's thing, if you live in a real city, it's not the Suburbs.

theshrike795y ago

The laundromat analogy is pretty good. Basically you'd plug in your car to a charger, go do your weekly groceries and go grab your car.

Two weeks of charge right there. You might not need to charge during next week's grocery run if you don't want to.

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0 pointsGibbon15y ago0 comments

> 1st, you're assuming people can charge at home - assuming they have a garage and access to power. This isn't true for a huge portion of the population.

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ntsplnkv25y ago

This is a textbook strawman.

> So what, figuring out how people without a designated parking space can change their car is trivial compared to trying to undo global warming.

No it isn't. NYC has limited space. There simply isn't enough room for a charger for every car. That is a nontrivial problem with extreme cost. You can't just handwave it away.

smileysteve5y ago

NYC and San Francisco are about as strawman as it gets, because the cars AND trips per capita are some of the lowest in the U.S.

ntsplnkv25y ago

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Gibbon1OP5y ago

That doesn't seem impossible, just merely inconvenient. On the same level of having to wash your clothes at a laundromat. It's thing, if you live in a real city, it's not the Suburbs.

theshrike795y ago

The laundromat analogy is pretty good. Basically you'd plug in your car to a charger, go do your weekly groceries and go grab your car.

Two weeks of charge right there. You might not need to charge during next week's grocery run if you don't want to.

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