Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
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Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
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No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
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EVs eliminate fuck all as long as hydrocarbon power plants exist. Like Tesla's famous diesel-powered solar charger.
They genuinely are about 3 times more efficient, so that's not really accurate.
For US mix of power generation, EVs typically produce approximately 3 times less of CO2. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/are-electric-vehicles-definitely-better-climate-gas-powered-cars
Larger power plants that don't carry their fuel are much more efficient, but we're still fucked if we don't phase them out.
Big hydrocarbon plants are more effective than the little ones inside cars. There's still other factors to consider like mining of minerals that contribute to make EVs not good, but they're a little less bad for the environment than the combustion kind even if your energy comes from bad sources
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
Look into Aptera. It's a solar EV that can get up to 40 miles of charge per day from the sun.
And if you'd plonk down that solar panel onto a roof where it catches much more sunlight, it would be able to produce even more electricity!
Idk, I park outside, I don't think I'd really get that much more sunlight. Also I rent so I can't just bolt stuff to my roof.
But are all sides of the car in the optimal angle towards the sun? No trees or buildings near your parking spot that could shade your car?
There is a pretty huge demand for solar panels right now. If these panels didn't go into a car, someone else would mount them to a roof instead.
No, but neither are solar panels on houses. For the car, it's ideal to park facing North/South. For stationary solar panels, it's ideal to have solar panels mounted on a pan/tilt platform so they can always face the sun, which is rare.
It's pretty clear at my house, I have a designated outdoor parking space. Not perfect but definitely sufficient for my commute. At my work there aren't any obstructions.
No, they developed and patented their own tech for curved solar panels.
But that's changing for the better?