Limiting EV range is justified to save the climate, apparently
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
But it’s to Save the Climate from Extinction, so limiting EV mobility range is totally justified.
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“It is not enough for people to just switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles (EVs) in order to fight global warming.
The climate brigade also wants to forcibly limit the range of people’s EVs to ensure they do not drive “too much” and kill the planet.
A consortium of professors from California and members of the so-called “climate community” are pushing to make EV batteries *less* powerful in order to stop climate change.
They also want to make passenger cars smaller, which they claim will “makes the roads far safer because smaller cars have fewer and less severe crashes.”
“Making bus routes, metros, and electric bikes faster, safer, and more convenient will disproportionately support low-income and non-white community members – who are more likely to live near high traffic areas and bear the environmental health burdens of relatively poorer air quality compared to higher-income and white counterparts,” the group further said.
The goal of this Climate Community Project, as its members are calling it, is to achieve a 71 percent reduction in personal vehicle ownership in the coming years.
By trapping people at home, there will be less demand for energy, which will stop the polar ice caps from melting, we are told. …”