Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car
Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/7273195
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You can make anything look bad by removing the next bad comparison though. Like if a pickup truck were there, everything would look good. Remove the car and add a scooter, windsurfing, rollerblading, and rolling downhill, and the e-bike looks bad.
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True, but the comparison in this case seems reasonable nonetheless. I just wish they had included fossil fuel cars, too
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Not really. The F150 Lightning's efficiency is ~270Wh/km city which means a small EV is only a 50% improvement vs 95% for ebike.
Also, this graph is helpful given our current situation. Maybe once we're mostly at the 95% better than an F150 Lightning solution (e-bikes), it might be worth being concerned with energy efficiency, but we're not there.
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I meant a regular pickup truck
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So 0Wh/km as they don't run on electricity? 🤷♂️
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One watt is just a joule per second. You can absolutely compute that for gas vehicles, the same way electric vehicles have mpg equivalent
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By that logic walking and regular bikes would also be 0Wh/km. But Wh isn't a unit of electricity
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AFAIK, our muscles work by electricity. Soooo....
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