alt Hacker NewsAn EV is still 2 tons of metal, plastics, batteries, that needed to be mined, refined, transformed, assembled, and delivered. Sounds excessive for getting groceries.
The solution, as usual for complex systems, involves more than one factor, almost no one living in an urban environment should need to go 5 miles to find groceries. Even on my suburb of Stockholm I have the option of 3 different groceries less than 1km away (we have villas, terraced houses, etc., so not only small apartments that some Americans are afraid of).
Urban design is a core principle to make your life easier, no self-driving EVs, those are a bad patch not solving anything of importance.
> Sounds excessive for getting groceries.
How do you think the groceries got to your shop in first place tho?
By the way, it's 1.766 tons. You can use it for other things too. Taking kids to schools and hobbies, going to beach, city, forests, camping.
I say that as someone who took my kids to daycare by bike for 2 years until they've grown out of it. It was great while it lasted and weather permitted, but I'm not going to make it my personality trait.
Getting groceries for family with a bike would be somewhat insane for me. Technically possible, practically nightmare. Also much more expensive than driving for 10 mins to a larger shop.