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tsgram t1_j2br73j wrote

Damn I wish NYC would get some electric vehicle infrastructure going. So fucken sick of my polluting gas guzzler.

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blacktongue t1_j2dn6qd wrote

Yeah but what are we going to do, line all the streets with charging blocks? I wish we’d just invest that money in better public transit.

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tsgram t1_j2dqpas wrote

I’d take both.

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blacktongue t1_j2dsnkz wrote

Every single thing we can do to disincentivize loud, expensive, dangerous space-consuming cars having priority to the streets would be a net benefit to the city. We’ll always need some, but we could definitely stand to have way fewer if the city would just proportionally invest in public transit to compensate.

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tsgram t1_j2dzxst wrote

100%! Long story short I drive to work because it saves literally over an hour roundtrip. I would LOVE to have efficient and reliable public transit instead. I’d have to take a subway to a bus, and that bus goes extremely slowly because people park in the bus lane and all through Church Ave 18-wheelers double park to unload.

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opheliainwaders t1_j2eqypa wrote

Interestingly, we already have existing infrastructure that could be repurposed/added onto for charging: streetlights! It would require an investment, obviously, but we already have a set of grid-connected blocks lining our streets. (I’m with you on public transit, but I’m ok with both/and in this case, and would like a—politically infeasible, I realize—dramatic reworking of the city budget to prioritize transit, schools, green infra…)

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aced124C t1_j2d6s9g wrote

Cant wait, Moved out to NJ in part to have my own driveway to charge up and the whole affordability thing lol

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NECOMONY t1_j2dkifg wrote

Wait til you hear about how electricity is produced. And all the energy expended pulling the minerals for the batteries out of the ground.

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case-o-nuts t1_j2dy22d wrote

Even charging batteries by burning coal in a combined cycle power plant is more efficient than burning gas in a small internal combustion engine

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tsgram t1_j2dqndu wrote

Yea, I know, but it’s already way more environmentally friendly than gas-powered cars

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