I totally agree with you.

And what’s even sillier is that examining the facts, Electric cars are better than ice cars anyway.

This philosophy take that op posted about evs being a “rich person’s” green solution is a commentary on the general wealth required to own and maintain any car, not anything about ev technology itself.

It is verifiably true that even though cobalt mining and lithium mining are riddled with ethics issues, pollution issues, etc. The battery powered cars that those metals go into are still a net positive on the environment by year 4 or 5 of ownership. We should push for evs to use better battery chemistry but it’s not productive to try and shit on evs when battery research really hasn’t been a huge focus until recently and there is a ton of benefits.

ev cars were invented right around 1900. Imagine if we were focusing on the development of better batteries with cleaner chemistry, better power density, cheaper costs, etc for 100 years…we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

And evs are better for cost of ownership for the end user. You didn’t costume brakes nearly as fast, dollar per mile costs for energy (gas or kws) are much cheaper in a lot of places for evs (I know California is expensive for energy, I’m speaking generally), no oil changes, no break downs due to drive train…evs just work until they need tires or a new drive battery in 12+ years.

This argument I’m presenting is purely for the case of EV car vs ICE car. Public transport should also be electrified once the power infrastructure is there. That’s the real problem.

The best 2 reasons not to get an ev over a regular car(especially since they are so cheap second hand right now) are 1. long trips being a headache and 2. Your electricity cost is really high.

If you live somewhere where electric is cheap and you need a commuter car an ev is so nice.

Yes there is. Some small animals burrow in grass like rabbits and mice like I’ve already said and insects are food for birds like I’ve already said.

Only rational argument in this thread. I don’t think it would cause a genocide of urban animals, but it’s just annoying that a city would put something attractive to them in the path of a literal train

They definitely dont understand that this grass is dangerous.

What’s your point

Neat. You’re still wrong tho

Were they burst and full auto variants?

You know the A in AR stands for a company called Armalite right?

Lol I’m right so you can’t argue anymore. I see you.

Things that burrow like rabbits and mice as well as a ton of food for birds like bugs meaning birds will be likely to be there way more than pavement or gravel

Yes, being concerned about putting creature habitat directly where trains run is trolling.

it’s about not being stupid. You aren’t gaining anything useful putting grass between the rails of a metro besides potential problems.

Someone said it’s been done successfully, which is surprising if true, but it’s still not really doing anything.

Seems dubious, but I’m curious if animals genuinely have a comparable hit rate on regular tracks vs grass filled rails.

I didn’t say there was a problem with the train lol just don’t put grass on the tracks

Can’t wait for all the animals to die on the tracks

Bro, kids will never know the struggle we had setting up halo LAN parties. those tvs are monsterous.

Is that 4 in binary, then? I’m not in the know