Yes, but if we're going to be talking about all-in efficiency, note that a bus or train is significantly more efficient[1] than a single-person vehicle idling in gridlock.
[1] In time, energy, money, infrastructure, maintenance, insurance, human health and life lost to accidents and pollution.
Electric cars don't idle in gridlock, the motors don't consume energy while stopped. They are also more efficient at 10mph than they are at 50mph, let alone 70mph.
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Yes, but if we're going to be talking about all-in efficiency, note that a bus or train is significantly more efficient[1] than a single-person vehicle idling in gridlock.
[1] In time, energy, money, infrastructure, maintenance, insurance, human health and life lost to accidents and pollution.
Electric cars don't idle in gridlock, the motors don't consume energy while stopped. They are also more efficient at 10mph than they are at 50mph, let alone 70mph.
No, but the humans in them do.
Traffic and gridlock waste our time because cars are an incredibly inefficient way to transport people[1].
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[1] https://humantransit.org/2012/09/the-photo-that-explains-alm...