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Biden promised to install thousands of EV charging stations. Only 7 have been built [so far] (wapo.st)
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“State transportation agencies are the recipients of the money,” he said. “Nearly all of them had no experience deploying electric vehicle charging stations before this law was enacted.”

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[–] pseudo 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My group of friends and I rent a bus for our yearly trip. Sometimes with driver, sometimes without when one of has the licence. Where we less, we would rent or borrow a mini-bus. And I'm regularly borrowing and renting vans and cars for trips for just a few.

Personal car ownership can be greatly reduce while still improving personal transportation convenience. Of course, at some point, it might become slightly less convenience for the individual passanger but the benefit for society would still compensate it.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

I organise trips almost every week. We do carpool when we can.

It would be too much work, and realistically on a few of them, we need a 4wd to avoid trouble (on one we almost got stuck for the night)