Notices by The War on Cars (thewaroncars@mastodon.social)

Car traffic is a DDoS attack on cities.

"And if children are the chief concern, consider that Stockholm’s congestion system resulted in children’s acute asthma visits to the doctor falling by 50%. Five years into its program, London – which began in 2003 -- found that congestion zone residents gained nearly 2,000 years of life due to the reduction of fine particulate matter."

#congestionpricing #nj #cars #pollution #climate #climatechange
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2023/07/congestion-pricing-is-coming-stop-the-fearmongering-editorial.html

"A single e-Hummer battery is roughly 350 times the size of the one in Rad Power’s popular RadRover 6 — which also costs $2,100 instead of $87,000 and up, and can use ordinary wall power instead of an expensive high-voltage charger. Put simply, mass e-bike adoption would give us hundreds of times more decarbonization for our policy dollar."

#evs #ebikes #thewaroncars

https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/how-cities-can-ignite-an-e-bike-revolution#