Most electrical energy consumed in the US is generated by burning fossil fuels. That energy had to be generated, transported, and then used to charge your battery, which has losses at each step. It also has to move a lot more mass in a typical EV than in their ICE counterpart, and especially in this Hummer.

So no, it's not really that efficient in terms of energy use -- a train or a bicycle and even a fossil fuel burning bus would be a lot better. And even compared to a normal car, unless you are installing your own solar panels to charge it, it isn't guaranteed to be less efficient in terms of carbon emissions, and with the Hummer it's been widely spoken of that they are far worse than even the ICE Hummer.

The only point you might have is air pollution, but the power stations are still burning that fuel and they are often doing so in or near cities. Car tires also produce toxic dust from friction with the roads and since EVs are heavier than other cars on average, they tend to produce more of this dust.

There's a marginal improvement in all of the EV business to what we were doing before, but there are still so many better options, like the e-bike. And if your choice is the hummer than you really can't claim any

what's disproven, that the hummer has a higher carbon footprint? got a source for that? it will really depend on your power source of course, most of which is generated by burning fossil fuels

Really, the idea of justifying this level of inefficient consumption blows my mind -- it has 250 kWh batteries! You can run a whole home pretty comfortably with just 10 kWh and a few solar panels. Why do you need to move 5 whole fucking tons of stuff just to get your ass from A to B when a bicycle would do?

what is even the point of going electric if you get something that has basically more carbon emissions than an ICE vehicle? the only actually sensible EV is an e-bike

there are some pretty great free things managed by the city -- think of say parks -- so I don't see why not

The city needs to eminent domain this and make it free

There are quite a few trails on the island, you can see them all on an app called VHtrails

I'd say the distances are more cyclable than walkable. If you want to make it out of town and reach other parts of the island, you could take a bicycle on the ferry.

I saw articles earlier this year about a proposal to run a train to Rockland