Yang: Climate Change May Require Elimination of Car Ownership

Renae said:

No Helix, it's not. Please tell me where I am actually wrong instead of snarky claiming otherwise?
Let's Talk Norway, the biggest EV Market in the world in terms of numbers bought. What's the cost and reason behind that? Is it because they are the best practical choice or is it something else?
Busting The Myth Of The World’s Hottest Electric Car Market | Markets Insider



It's a VERY good read that will open your eyes to the costs involved to make this happen and the downsides to it too.

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You consistently ignore reality because you wish it was something else. This subforum and CT are effectively devoted almost entirely to that concept.

Renae said:

That's great for people that can. I live in a city that takes near an hour to cross, with no traffic. My wife drives some 90 miles a day just to get to and from work. Hell just to get to the bowling alley on Wed and Fri for league is... hold on
it's 17.1 miles. On weekends we like to go to out and about. It's easily an hour drive just to get away from San Antonio proper and get anywhere. Electric cars, won't meet the needs of people like us, and San Antonio is a rather big city.

I'm not saying there are not people for whom such an idea would be an excellent plan for, but it won't work for many.

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The Tesla model S has a top speed of 150 miles per hour and can go 370 miles between recharges. Problem is that it costs $75,000, while the average new car costs about $36,000. Electric cars are improving dramatically every year and eventually they will be equivalent or better than gas powered. Even today, the Tesla model 3 costs about $39,500, has a top speed of 140 miles, and can last 240 miles without recharge. We are seeing a lot of competitors to Tesla emerge that deliver equivalent cars and might even push them out of business. The big car companies are already making some great electric cars, and when they go all in, we are going to see some big advances in electric cars.

Self-driving cars will reduce some of the traffic problems. They will be smart so many of them will carpool people for lower prices. This will reduce the number of cars on the road. Also, many traffic problems are exasperated by the human behavior of drivers on the road. Self-driving cars will be optimized to drive in a way that minimize traffic, and find routes that are the fastest. They will almost never have accidents which will prevent a lot of traffic.

Renae said:

Yeah, like Beto won't take our guns right?

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Guess you don't understand the difference b/t what Beto said vs what Yang said.

Might and Definitely aren't the same things....