• areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    It only takes thinking outside the car box.

    I don’t even drive and even I know cars, lorries, tractors, and so on are all necessary in some parts of society. You can’t use public transport if you are miles away from the next house or the nearest town. Rural areas need transport too.

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      6 months ago

      I know the problem in rural zones. I live in one. But if they can reduce the car dependency in cities and to some extend in big towns that’s a lot of car batteries that don’t have to be build.

      And just as a note, there are electric tractors. Still small but…

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        6 months ago

        The point is there is still a point in funding battery technology. Not that you shouldn’t try to use public transport where necessary. Things like buses will also need batteries in order to operate if we are getting rid of fossil fuels.

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          6 months ago

          One bus is 30 to 60 cars not used at the same time🙂 I don’t say “stop building batteries” but “enhance public transport”.

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            6 months ago

            One bus is 30 to 60 cars not used at the same time🙂

            I know all this.

            I don’t say “stop building batteries” but “enhance public transport”.

            That’s exactly what this conversation was about. People said stop investing as much money in battery technology - which is ass backwards given we have needs for this in both the grid and in vehicles.