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Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/7273195
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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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
Part of the problem is now just the adults themselves are the heavy stuff, perpetuating the cycle
It exists, but it's a fetish community.
Watch out, you'll get stalked on Lemmy for pointing things like that out.