• @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      62 months ago

      New York is one of the most liberal states in the country, but its got fewer EVs per capita than Texas in no small part because its also one of the few states with a functional mass transit system.

      Utah is one of the reddest states in the country, but it also has enormous wealth per capita, so it has far more new EVs than bluer states like Delaware and Rhode Island and New Mexico and Wisconsin.

    • @CanadaPlus
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      It’s not the same map. The east coast is rich as well. That being said, I’m guessing a Tesla is down the list from a proper closed sewage system, if you’re in a poor black belt county, so no surprise it’s pretty low in the deep south.

      There’s poor people in NY, of course, but so is there in Cali.

  • @SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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    22 months ago

    I’ve seen quite a lot of Tesla in Florida, way more than 1%. However I was only at tourist places.

    • @lemming934
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      -52 months ago

      Electric cars are bad for the environment since they require mineral mining and polute the city with micoplastics from tire dust. They are almost as bad as ICE cars.

      Ebikes are the way to go.

      • @crimsonpoodle@pawb.social
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        32 months ago

        Yes, microplastics are bad, but the comparison between electric and ICE cars is just not true at all. Mineral mining can be bad, but it’s mostly bad because bad is cheap, and they can get away with it in third-world countries with lax environmental protections; however, even given this, when a battery wears out, all it is is a change of configuration of the materials that make it up, which you can reclaim, and we’re getting better at reclaiming those disordered elements in used batteries. So the percentage of reused minerals in batteries will continue to climb. ICE cars combust fuels which are used up and turned into water and CO2, which is bad and requires more fuel. Also, yes, e-bikes are good.

  • @Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    -32 months ago

    As a Californian, I’m sorry about Musk, guys… We fucking hate that guy, and his shitty cars, but we have a ton of people here, and some of them are Conservatives and/or Nazi’s that own Tesla’s.

    • Owl
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      22 months ago

      some of them are Conservatives and/or Nazi’s that own Tesla’s

      That’s the most american thing I heard today