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UK: Motorists will be given £5,000 to switch to electric cars
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Written on: 25 June 2009 [23:11]
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ecoadmin
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Just an initiative to get the car industry going again? http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/electric-dream-machines-are-they-really-the-future-of-motoring-1669963.html Or would the £250m not better be invested in public transport, i.e. train infrastructure for example? Cheers, ecoadmin Twike 890
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Written on: 27 June 2009 [19:15]
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childress
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While public transit can be a good option for the largest cities to alleviate traffic congestion problems, in anything less than the biggest cities it falls at the bottom in terms of greenness from an energy-usage per passenger mile (how much energy is used to deliever one passenger one mile). It is also horribly susceptible to fluctuations in gas prices as well as parking -- when gas and parking is cheap, public transportation's efficiency plummets. Brad's full article is definitely worth a read, but if you choose not to, you should be aware that Brad is not advocating NOT taking transit or NOT riding your bicycle, rather he's pointing out that the "common knowledge" that public transit is greener (from an energy-use perspective) is false. http://www.templetons.com/brad/transit-myth.html Brad advocates tiny electric "robocars" as a mass transit solution. Therefore, for the majority of cities in the world, encouraging quality-built (preferably local) APPROPRIATELY SIZED electric vehicle purchase is a better bang for your eco-dollar than spending on public transit. Not that public transit should not continue to be funded (and improved), preferably going electric as rapidly as possible! Note what kind of vehicle falls at the bottom (best) of his energy usage chart   Commute suck? Twike it; You'll like it!
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