Opinion: Replacing bloated, gas-powered vehicles with road-hogging EVs turns the logic of EVs upside down. Big EVs consume as much steel as their oversized, gas-powered counterparts. And steelmaking is a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions.
General Motors Co. made it official that day that it will stop producing its flagship electric vehicle , the Chevrolet Bolt, a compact SUV, by the end of the year.
“Car sizes have evolved so much in the past 12 years to be so much bigger,” analyst Jessica Caldwell of the auto-price comparison website Edmunds told USA Today. Big EVs consume as much steel as their oversized, gas-powered counterparts. And steelmaking is a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Ford’s F-150 Lightning EV pickup truck, for instance, is about one-third heavier than its gas-powered stablemate.And the extra height of oversized vehicles can make it more difficult to see a person in front of a vehicle — crossing an intersection, for instance. There was no such profit motive for another option in fighting global warming in the transportation sector, now gaining momentum after a long preoccupation with EVs.And of “micromobility,” an umbrella term for walking, e-bikes, conventional bicycles, kick-scooters and e-mopeds. And increased use of better-funded public transit, and car-based ride-sharing., where almost everything one needs from shopping to recreation is within a 15-minute walk from home, runs on micromobility.
Those now advocating for less driving — or none at all — have solid evidence for micromobility as a necessary additional means of fighting climate change.And that same year, engineering researchers at theThe U of T researchers used computer modelling of the U.S. market to show that America would need to get to 90 per cent EV adoption by 2050 to meet its emissions reduction targets.
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