The Idiocy of Tiny Houses and Electric Vehicles
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Huh?
It's rather unfortunate, because there is a really interesting cost-benefit analysis to be performed that compares the carbon footprint of assembling a new Nissan Leaf against the carbon footprint of driving your Civic for another 5-10 years. The analysis would have to be parameterized by the gas-mileage and age of your current car, the type of electric you intend on replacing it with, the carbon footprint of electricity in your region, and how much you drive.
We'll have to find a pundit who isn't innumerate to write it.
I would expect charging will be much more profitable business than manufacturing EVs in a long run. It's like Gillete makes blade handles cheap but blades very expensive.
Today, range is like 200 miles. That’s enough for basically 100% of commutes, knocking around town, and many longer trips.
It’s not however long enough for a ski trip day trip, or a road trip, or if Grandma lives farther away.
If range gets up to ~500 miles, charging away from home base will be almost exclusively for road trippers which is already where Tesla is focusing.
But tiny houses in the middle of nowhere makes no sense..
Same with EVs if you are otherwise naturally replacing your car, sure go EV, otherwise it's probably better to hold off.
Tiny houses will never be practical for most people as people generally need indoor space to live. It's not a replacement for a house, it's something else, a luxury toy. Also, I don't get how such a small house in the middle of nowhere can be that expensive. Someone is profiting big time and you can get one for cheaper.
Electrical cars are practical for most people. Who the hell routinely gets to the limit of a EV regularly? They're just too expensive for now and charging is not as widespread. Once more affordable models come out and chargers get installed everywhere they'll become the new standard.
My belief is that utilities are expensive. Water, power, sewage. What costs $$$ to remodel? Bathrooms and kitchens. Then framing and drywall are cheap. And square footage goes up with the square of the wall length. So the marginal cost of more square feet is low.
My feeling is if you're going to do tiny living spaces you want multifamily. And the last thing you want is McMansions in ultra low density suburbs.
Living there my whole life would be miserable, though.
This.
But it flies in the face of sustainability(TM), which has been captured by corporations and is the new new for capitalism.
1: https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon...
The best part is that the very same people demand that the government pay its debts back, at very high interest of course, which is completely illogical because paying debt reduces interest rates.