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1. blondie9x · 1790551287 · focus · HN ↗

   EVs plus charging with a grid powered by solar when the sun shines bright at midday is one of the most powerful forces in averting anthropogenic climate change.

   1. FlowingRiver · 1790553168 · focus · HN ↗

      I would say removing the need for personal vehicles were possible would be a much more powerful force, but yours is much more practical at least short term (decade's time frame).

      1. blondie9x · 1790563858 · focus · HN ↗

         Ah yeah. I love the idea of no cars at all. But if we do have to have cars then cars powered solely by the sun is the way to go.
      2. dzhiurgis · 1790568643 · focus · HN ↗

         Yeah I’d prefer teleportation, time travel and world peace too.

         1. nehal3m · 1790570276 · focus · HN ↗

            We have teleportation, at least in as far as it relates to doing your job if that is white collar work. We just won’t use it as much as we could.
         2. FlowingRiver · 1790576024 · focus · HN ↗

            I do find it funny that the idea of removing cars (not all of them mind you) is somehow seen as the equivalent of teleportation. In our modern society, I get it, it is practically the same mentally and yet objectively they are very different.

            Complete aside, I wish that we had things like that, like doorways to other parts of the world.

            Let's go to lunch in Tbilisi walks through door to there. Once done, just walk back through to home.

         3. Gud · 1790576315 · focus · HN ↗

            Funny you would say that, considering there ARE other choices, they even existed in the US until your car lobbied to dismantle it.

            I am of course talking about public transportation. Bike + tram + train keeps the citizens fit and healthy.

            Going from car parking to car parking must suck, what a way to live

         4. someonebaggy · 1790593074 · focus · HN ↗

            Have you ever visited europe

            1. dzhiurgis · 1790635427 · focus · HN ↗

               I grew up in Europe. And lived car free 5 years in London and biked 6 months in Netherlands. I have 70 countries stamped on my passport.

               There's plenty of cars in Europe and in some sense traffic is worse there than here in NZ.

               Let's not pretend they gone extinct there and everything is fine and dandy just because you walked everywhere for a week while visiting some old town.

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