But on the personal vehicle side, the practical first step is phasing out ICE vehicles, which brings a huge overall improvement to transport efficiency as it stands.
I don’t like this line of thinking because the resources required to replace every car we have with an electric one (and if things continue as is, they’ll also be bigger). We need to have way fewer cars. Our personal vehicles should be in the shape of bicycles.
Just to note, this doesn’t apply to every journey, only the really long distance ones.
Amtrak is still the more climate-friendly option for the vast majority of travelers, who on average travel 300 to 400 miles, said Olivia Irvin, a spokeswoman for the rail company. (That is, not many people are crazy enough to go cross-country by train.) A 2022 Department of Transportation study found that traveling by train from Los Angeles to San Diego generated less than half the emissions, per passenger, of flying, or driving. For Boston to New York, an electrified route, taking the train generated less than a fifth the emissions of flying or driving.
I don’t assume that, I’m just curious about it.
Are they moving an amount beyond the capacity of a railway? And I would expect that the ocean vessels wouldn’t be the same as the ones in the canal.
Edit: From the article:
Shipping containers from those ocean-going vessels would be transferred by cranes at Kep to and from canal barges.
Why a canal? Why not just build a railway to the existing port?
With a quick google I’ve found that subsidies for plug in hybrids can be around €5,000, and yes I do believe that people would be lazy enough to not plug it in. I’m not sure how many dollars one would save by doing this in Europe anyway.
But also, it’s just a suggestion, I’m not asserting that this is definitely true.
It could be due to subsidies encouraging people to buy hybrids and people just ignoring the plug in feature. There’s more discussion on this here
It means exactly what I think it means. The reported emissions are way off those that are actually achieved in real life.
If we assume your assertion is actually correct (the study says nothing about the availability of charging infrastructure), how much do we need to build? And are we sure that once it is built, people will actually use it? Would it not be better to instead invest in infrastructure for other modes of transport that don’t involve 2 tons of vehicle to transport one person?
Why would you take your car instead of the train in this case? If you were going to fly anyway then the train makes sense. A car would be slower, you have to drive it yourself, and deal with storing it at your location.
IIRC that’s the case in France, but per the article
It isn’t yet known how many flights will actually be impacted by restrictions.
This would be great, but won’t happen as quickly as they say, and even if a competitor does get going, the lack of capacity at St Pancras is a major blocker to reducing the ticket price.
The pricing and general operations on the Eurostar are pretty crap, which also annoys me to no end since I also use it semi frequently. Thankfully from what I’ve heard the high speed trains in Spain don’t suffer from the same issues.
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If SUVs were a country, they’d be the sixth most polluting, and banning/regulating them wouldn’t be pushing the responsibility onto consumers.
Will this not dilute search results related to sudo? It’s minor but I think could be considered EEE.
I want my language learning app to have things like that, to help motivate me to keep coming back every day.
Just fyi you can keep practicing as much as you want in Duolingo, just tap the heart in the top right and click practice to earn more hearts.
And my content doesn’t go against that. Just electrifying trucks won’t solve the problem. We need fewer trucks.
I wasn’t sure where you were going with the “I would say…” part, so I thought it was worth saying.
And to that I would point out that much of North America was redeveloped for the car, since most cities were once walkable and had great public transport networks. It was redeveloped once so it can be redeveloped again.