The EPA’s final rule follows a concession to labor unions worried about a rapid shift to electric vehicles, and a nod that EV sales are slowing

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    194·
    8 months ago

    Remember kids, EVs are still personal vehicles and they are an unreasonable solution in urban settings. I really wish President ILOVETRAINS would show trains and subways some fucking love.

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
      14·
      8 months ago

      I just wish I had some sidewalks man. My street only has handicap ramps at the intersections and then the sidewalk just ends in grass. Like who the fuck does that help?

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        I wish. My town is an older town, which is great in many ways but sidewalks are not one of them. I think the town relies on developers to put in sidewalks and it may not even be required, which leaves it piecemeal, and no progress in front of older buildings

      • Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        8 months ago

        I’m seriously hoping for a stong blue wave for this reason alone (well, not alone, but you know). I just want my damn government to get their shit together and fix my damn metro

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          Back to those trains again …

          • MBTA is apparently “the most to dangerous transit system in the US”, so yeah. However we screwed it up ourselves
          • all those $500k planning grant to investigate rail enhancements …. With a blue wave, maybe we could implement a bunch of them
          • or making more baby steps on that $1T or so it would take to grow Acela into high speed rail
    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 months ago

      Trains were always going to be the slowest option to implement, but IRA put more money into passenger trains than ever before

      …. Too much of it was “$500k to study” in many places but hopefully a step forward