Half of all new cars are now SUVs, making them a major cause of the intensifying climate crisis, say experts
  • pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    20 days ago

    im so done sharing roads and parking lots with these horrible vehicles. the modded pickup trucks are even worse and beyond embarassing.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      5·
      20 days ago

      I was in a parking lot in a more rural area of my state last weekend, and I just had long modded pickup trucks filling every single compact spot. The worst part is that there were no compact cars and those were the only places left. So you kind of feel why they had to park there, except I had to drive into oncoming traffic just to get around them. I’m sick of these giant cars in this stupid culture we have where you have to drive everywhere

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
      21·
      20 days ago

      If only we could be done with it. I guess we can do as some Brits used to do and slash them tires… except that was kind of frowned upon.

      • saigot@lemmy.ca
        5·
        20 days ago

        There was a guy in my town that 3d printed these things that release the air out of the tires. That means if you get caught you get a misdemeanor mischief charge and not a vandalism.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The analysis, by the International Energy Agency, found that the rising emissions from SUVs in 2023 made up 20% of the global increase in CO2, making the vehicles a major cause of the intensifying climate crisis.

    The IEA also said SUVs caused greater injury to pedestrians in collisions, due to their higher front-ends, and took up more space in cities than regular cars.

    But the IEA’s Laura Cozzi and Apostolos Petropoulos, who did the analysis, said: “The trend toward heavier and less efficient vehicles such as SUVs has largely nullified the improvements achieved in recent decades.”

    Europe will go the way of North America unless lawmakers step in with EU width limits and national taxes and parking charges which discourage big SUVs.”

    “Shifting from fossil-fuelled cars to electric vehicles is a key strategy for reaching international energy and climate goals,” Cozzi and Petropoulos said.

    Some countries, including France, Norway and Ireland, are working to rein in demand for SUVs, with Paris tripling parking charges for the large vehicles.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    18 days ago

    What else are we supposed to buy? Have you tried to buy a small, basic town car lately? Dealers don’t have stock in my area and they push you to the SUVs.

    I’m going to keep driving my current car car until the wheels fall off.

    • mondoman712OP
      2·
      18 days ago

      Car companies want you to buy these larger, more profitable cars. They advertise them much more heavily and push you away from anything smaller.