Why Electric Cars Won't Save Us
Hellooo!! Happy Friday! Hope this email finds you well. Below you can find my latest video, as well as three quotes and three links. Enjoy!
Three Quotes:
“Assuming no changes to travel behaviours and a decarbonization of 80 per cent of electricity, meeting a 2 C target could require up to 300 million EVs, or 90 per cent of the projected U.S. fleet, by 2050. That would require all new purchased vehicles to be electric from 2035 onwards.”
— The Conversation
“As a rule of thumb, one can expect a 10 percent fare reduction to increase patronage [of public transit] by about four percent in the short run and up to double that in the longer term”
— Nils Fearnley
“Doubling public transport usage as part of a green recovery would, by 2030, create tens of millions of jobs in cities around the world (4.6 million new jobs in the nearly 100 C40 cities alone), cut urban transport emissions by more than half, and reduce air pollution from transport by up to 45%.”
— C40 Cities
Three Links:
The City with 16,000 Electric Buses & 22,000 Electric Taxis | 100% Independent, 100% Electric (Fully Charged Show)
'Like slave and master': DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars (The Guardian)
Electrification of light-duty vehicle fleet alone will not meet mitigation targets (Alexandre Milovanoff et al.)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie