• bascule@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    The real news is that electric 2-wheeled vehicles and electric cars are both helping curb emissions, and there are a lot more electric 2-wheeled vehicles, and the 2-stroke engines those 2-wheeled EVs are replacing are horrible polluting monstrosities that suffer from incomplete combustion and are ripe for electrification.

    Setting this up as some sort of rivalry is a wedge strategy straight out of the big oil playbook to smear electric cars, the biggest threat to big oil’s bread and butter.

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      1 year ago

      Transforming mobility, in general, is a conversation that is extremely worthwhile and needs to be had. The US’s car-centric nature is bad in a plethora of ways that aren’t at all limited to greenhouse gas emissions. I could just as easily claim that trying to sweep the conversation under the rug is straight out of the auto manufacturers’ playbook, and as far as I see it, that is far truer than your claim.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t understand why this comment has so many downvotes, car-centric infrastructure doesn’t suddenly become fine and dandy if the cars are electric. We need to be driving less, and e-bikes are a GREAT way to do that.