@KarlHeinzHasliP @denki Personally, I think that standardized #batteries that get swapped would've been the solution to the charging speed problem.

#BEV|s are a problem and the #EnergyDensity and #Charging problems are hard walls that can only be circumvented (i.e. swapping fluids at a #RedoxFlow-#Battery) or ignored (i.e. #Methanol #FuelCell)...

• Personally, I think #Trolleybuses are the best option if #Trams & #Trains ain't feasible (i.e. steep grates like in #Solingen) and the few edgecases that'll never get 24/7 once per hour bus service or even an on-call minibus need to get more efficient without #ConflictMinerals from #UnfairTrade (i.e. #Cobalt) and destruction of unique habitats (i.e. #Lithium)...

Solving the #EnergyProblem isn't a technological issue, but a political one (see #DESERTEC)...

@lmc overhead wires without any tracks in the street to fell cyclists? Do #trolleybuses really exist?

@simonbp @reece either way I think #battery-#electric vehicles are a bad solution compared to #Methanol #Fuelcells or even better actual #Electrification like with #Trolleybuses and #Trams and #Trains!

@tk that's because in the #USA, #Car manufacturers were allowed to buy up #PublicTransport networks for the purpose of destroying them since neither #Trams nor #Trains nor #Trolleybuses are considered #Infrastructure!

@GreenFire not really...

They still make a shitton of money with other products from oil and gas, like plastics, fertilizer and pharmaceuticals or rather the base products for all these.

Nit to mention that I think that if they didn't diversify their portfolios by now they're so bad businesspeople that they deserve to get obsoleted.

Not that Lithium-battery cars are going to save the world , far from it.

Rather look at howthe oil andncar industry not only sabotaged #PublicTransport with lobbyism and hostile takeovers but also FUD and propaganda.

In fact, #ElonMisk admitted that he solely pitched the #Hyperloop in order to sabotage #CHSR / #California #HighSpeedRail...

#Trains and #Trolleybuses, not #BatteryCars will be the nevessary shift to reduce trafcic-based emissions!

@ErikUden @teslastoppen no, #Tesla is #ValueRemoving to the envoirment and society.

Cuz I can mathematically evidence that #BatteryElectricCars / #BEV|s are so bad it is more envoirmentally friendly for me to drive a #GDR-made two-stroke 50cm³ motorcycle instead of any of their #cars.

Not to mention #ElonMusk openly admitting to #Sabotage #PublicTransport projects like #CHSR (#California #HighSpeedRail) with bullshit like the #Hyperloop!

if #Tesla as a company was envoirmentally-concious, they'd not build #SuperUselessVehicles for Incels like the #CyberTruck but instead build either #PersonalLightVehicles if not #Trolleybuses and thus actually make things better...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9EARKvCTc

@elliots I will happily tell any city they should have more #trolleybuses for less than half of the fee of whatever studies they're considering.

@paultk @notjustbikes
Tho stuff like making bus lines is relatively easy and doesn't require much of a setup except marking bus stops, putting up posts, and getting buses and divers...

#PublicTransport is the key - Ideally using #Trolleybuses as this will reduce the amount of hazardously mined, energy-consumingly refined and unfair traded minerals needed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9EARKvCTc

@BinChicken There is no "zero emission" transportation on ruber wheels, since they'll inevitably emit particles from their brakes and microplastics from their tires whilst accellerating and decellerating.

That being said, hydrogen is a waste product of the fossil fuel industry and would otherwise get burned off via the safety fire...

Not to mention that the same "pollution out of sight" also applies to #battery-electric vehicles.

So #Trolleybuses and #Trams are better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9EARKvCTc

#Trolleybuses conquering the hills of west coast cities in the US, catch up #Portland (ted is always with the wheelsucking) #Seattle #SanFrancisco #transit

https://youtu.be/pCtf2F4s2dE

@scottsthoughts In how many cities did the auto industry need to dismantle the streetcar systems before inter-city travel by #trains was untenable due to lack of #transit in your destination city? Bonus question: how many electric #trolleyBuses and miles of overhead wiring can we run for the cost of one mile of freeway widening?

@rail
Or just fecking normal #Trams and #Trolleybuses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9EARKvCTc

@mathewthomas I think #India really needs #accessible and #affordable #MassTransit since #traffic is already unbearable and getting cars or even scooters for a billion people is not a viable option...

Even #Trolleybuses with dedicaded lanes would be a major upgrade...

@natty @lunareclipse personally I like #Trolleybuses as they allow #Tram-Style efficient transport even if your Geography has too narrow and steep hills to lay down tracks - regardless if dedicaded or embedded in the road surface...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9EARKvCTc

Like in #Solingen:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Solingen