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Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by moffkalast »

devnullbrain wrote: post #149
idontwantthis wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want an electric bike but I want to go places with it and I’m worried about it getting stolen when I lock it up outside a shop. Do you have one?

This is also a big problem for multi-modal commuting. Do I really want to lock up my bike in a location that screams 'the owner won't be back for 9 hours', knowing police won't investigate bike theft?

If all those e-scooter rental startups can have remote GPS tracking and theft alarms then it really shouldn't take much to implement that into personal ones too. I mean people leave those things absolutely everywhere and they never get rightfully stolen.

A 4G modem would probably be overkill, but one might be able to do it for free with lorawan. Or alternatively a big label saying "this bike is GPS tracked" with absolutely no extra hardware at all and hope that bike thieves are dumb fucks.

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by jahnu »

jeyoo wrote: post #94
imtringued wrote: post #88

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It's not. It's an unfunny insider joke.

Not even an insider joke, everyone knows what an acoustic and electric guitar is. and funny is subjective, I had a good chuckle and will use the terminology now

I do prefer acoustic versions of Route 66, On the Road Again, and King of the Road.

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by rgblambda »

tim333 wrote: post #131
Peanuts99 wrote: post #128

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That looks perfect for phone snatchers.

The phone snatchers at least in the UK prefer souped up e-bikes rather than e-motorcycles. That thing the police would stop you if you didn't have a number plate.

Also cycling on the pavement where the snatching occurs is more acceptable on an e-bike, even though it's illegal even for a pedal bike.

The police should still be stopping those bikes as they don't meet the legal definition of EAPC and so require a licence plate. Not that they do.

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by vladak »

devnullbrain wrote: post #149
idontwantthis wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want an electric bike but I want to go places with it and I’m worried about it getting stolen when I lock it up outside a shop. Do you have one?

This is also a big problem for multi-modal commuting. Do I really want to lock up my bike in a location that screams 'the owner won't be back for 9 hours', knowing police won't investigate bike theft?

I know this is not a very helpful w.r.t. protection, however there is https://bikeindex.org/ - recently I was listening to a Darknet diaries podcast https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/153/ which has a nice story about stolen bikes and what to do about it.

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by rgblambda »

ntSean wrote: post #35
davidblue wrote: post #32

Can I just ask - forgive the potential ignorance - if EVs have been proven to be less net carbon emitting with their manufacturing and expected disposal emissions factored in?

EVs have an initial higher carbon footprint after production than ICE vehicles due to their battery. However, the initial CO2 footprint is dwarfed when compared to the operational footprint of ICE vehicles. Takes a few years for the scale to tip in EVs favour, to which then there's a substantial difference. > BNEF studied the US, Chinese, Germany, UK and Japanese markets. It determined the lifecycle CO2 emissions of…

Will that initial footprint come down as recycled batteries become more ubiquitous?

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by devnullbrain »

moffkalast wrote: post #151
devnullbrain wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is also a big problem for multi-modal commuting. Do I really want to lock up my bike in a location that screams 'the owner won't be back for 9 hours', knowing police won't investigate bike theft?

If all those e-scooter rental startups can have remote GPS tracking and theft alarms then it really shouldn't take much to implement that into personal ones too. I mean people leave those things absolutely everywhere and they never get rightfully stolen. A 4G modem would probably be overkill, but one might be able to do it for free with lorawan. Or alternatively a big label saying "this bike is GPS tracked" with abso…

That advice might not travel well: until recently I lived in a city where the bike rental service pulled out because too many were thrown in canals.

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by psychoslave »

rsynnott wrote: post #136
mpreda wrote: post #122

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> Economic growth and population growth will likely keep that going up. What population growth?

About 70 million per year at the moment. Current estimates have world population peaking in 2080.

Certainly not all estimates, right? We can certainly suppose different scenarios, with a large specter from humanity total disappearance to discovery of star gates technology opening plenty of inhabitable world without any actual alien threat existing in the outerspace. Also there can be wide gap in evolution from one government influence zone to an other, even at very small region scale — think Haiti and The Dominican Republic.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151971

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by randunel »

idontwantthis wrote: post #30
xnx wrote: post #23

Even in cities that are pretty hostile to bikes, electric bikes/scooters are an amazing middle point between walking and all the expense of a car (purchase, loans, fuel, maintenance, insurance, registration, tickets, etc.).

I want an electric bike but I want to go places with it and I’m worried about it getting stolen when I lock it up outside a shop. Do you have one?

I typically use a heavy cargo bike. I only use its built in front wheel lock, it's so heavy, it can't be easily stolen, so I never lock it against posts and such.

I always lock and secure my road bike against street furniture, though.

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

conductr wrote: post #130
VladStanimir wrote: post #107

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The problem with electric cars is charging infrastructure in cites. An electric bike or scooter can be brought indoors to charge.

It’s not so much of a problem due to the average daily drive being a fraction of range. So long as you can charge at home, city life is fine for electric cars.

>It’s not so much of a problem due to the average daily drive being a fraction of range

Most people who own a car in cities in Europe also use it for long commutes to visit family in weekends or on holidays, often crossing borders. Range is then a problem since most families can afford only one car so edge cases matter. Maybe the wealthy Benelux and Scandinavia have top EV charring infrastructure but a lot of central, eastern and southern Europe is lacking.

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by aqme28 »

xnx wrote: post #23

Even in cities that are pretty hostile to bikes, electric bikes/scooters are an amazing middle point between walking and all the expense of a car (purchase, loans, fuel, maintenance, insurance, registration, tickets, etc.).

Also an order of magnitude or two better for the climate than an electric car.
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