I’m a country boy all my life. I can’t cycle or take the metro anywhere. Walkable cities are great but they’re a hundred miles away.

Everyone goes on about how they hate cars, but what else are you supposed to do?

https://electrek.co/2023/12/04/livaq-equad-unveiled-as-most-capable-electric-atv-ever/ – this article talks about something with a 108km/h and a range of 273 km. It’s mad expensive unfortunately, but that is normally to do with adoption rates and scale.

(It says “claims a range of 170 miles (273 km) from its 15.4 kWh battery pack”, which implies consumption of about 55 watt-hours per km travelled, though that’d be variable depending on speed and conditions)

If I had one of these, I could get to town, get to a train station, without a car. I could carry one child, which is worse than a car, but the energy consumption is a 3-4× lower than a car. If train stations had swappable batteries, that would be ideal, but I don’t see that coming any time soon.

  • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    This would not be great in the winter, the truth is for rural living personal vehicles (or at least communal vehicles) are going to be required

      • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Trucks, vans, etc. something that can handle normal winter roads and haul the people and goods that are needed. Maybe a bus if you’re a hutterite