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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”.

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    1 year ago

    Does it disassemble into two electric bikes or four electric unicycles? 🤔

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    1 year ago

    How are these noobs not aware of the existence of bicycles?

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    most sustainable vehicle has always been and will forever continue to be the bicycle

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      1 year ago

      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.