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Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

The fact remains that cars are faster than bikes. Driving a car usually means going faster and hence wasting more energy. Sure, plenty of people deal with distances that necessitate such speeds to be practical in daily life, but that's a different problem to be solved.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree.

    But if it's a different problem to be solved the comparison is useless from the get go.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Plenty of people drive short distances that could already be travelled by bike or walked. That doesn't require any new solutions. Reminding those people of how wasteful it is to commute by car is a good way to approach that problem imo.

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