Looking at social media rn and I keep seeing articles about: ever larger, ever more-expensive cars, SUVs and trucks out-selling smaller vehicles, rants calling for the abolition of public transport, hate campaigns directed at cyclists, an insistence that driving is the ONLY valid form of transport—
The car industry is panicking. End of fossil fuel burners plus €10,000 for a car-sized battery pack equals end of a viable motoring economy (cheap second-hand cars can't exist in an EV future).
Which conveniently brings me to the point that if we can't have everyone living in walkable neigbourhoods with excellent public transport and biking infrastructure, we should at least do the #AntiSUV and make #PersonalLightVehicles: https://github.com/KBtechnologies/PLV
It's purposefully designed to make #repair economically unviable!
This shit should be made illegal by @EU_Commission because not even ATEX-certified radios and diving computers have that level of designed-in #unrepairability, and they even have fecking valid reasons to not be easy to be opened.
After all, for most people a #car is just a tool to get themselves and/or maybe a person and/or maybe some freight from one point to another because #PublicTransport doesn't exist or is more expensive and/or inconvenient than driving...
Why do I get the feeling #STIMBO relies on heavy local lobbying to even be relevant?
I mean, don't get me wrong:
I like those as they basically are what I want to see more of: #PersonalLightVehicles and in terms of space and envoirment, #Zermatt has made the right choice...
@pezmico Also in terms of total CO² emissions and envoirmental impact both the current electrical mix [in Germany] and the production of #Lithium-#Cobalt#Batteries are potentially even far worse unless they last >250.000km.
Also there are no cheap electric cars for the same reason.