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Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/7273195

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Nobody is saying that it never makes any sense to use a car, but about 60% of all car trips in America are less than 6 miles (9.65 km). The scale ends there, hence the less than, but a good chunk is probably only 1-2 miles or less (1.6 - 3.2km), which is inexcusable for healthy adults not transporting heavy stuff like a fridge.

Source: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1042-august-13-2018-2017-nearly-60-all-vehicle-trips-were-less-six

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

which is inexcusable for healthy adults not transporting heavy stuff like a fridge.

Part of the problem is now just the adults themselves are the heavy stuff, perpetuating the cycle

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Watch out, you'll get stalked on Lemmy for pointing things like that out.