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Another thing to think about from the high energy efficiency is how bad energy-wise current electric cars are, and of coruse this translates to resource use in battery materials as well when transporting the median nr of passengers.

See eg here: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/11/e-bikes-are-radically-m...



Do you know what's about 5 times worse energy wise than electric cars? Gas cars.


It's closer to 2x (see eg https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/electric-vehicles-contribu...).

But yes, a gas car is a worse thing still than a electric car, neither are sustainable. We need to cut car use rapidly to mitigate the climate disaster.




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