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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.

Electric cars don't idle in gridlock

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...

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