> Buy a smaller car?
So your solution to the incremental pollution caused by driving “too much vehicle”… is to mine, refine, and manufacture a second vehicle?
So your solution to the incremental pollution caused by driving “too much vehicle”… is to mine, refine, and manufacture a second vehicle?
Or just walking to get groceries.
Ah, a city dweller. Let me put it this way: in the part of the country where your food comes from, walking to the store would take hours one way along two lane roads with no sidewalks.
Nope.
When you rent a car, it has to sit in the rental car parking lot. They have to build the facility. An employee has to drive there to do all your paperwork and rent it to you. The rental gets fully cleaned and inspected after a day of use by another set of employees. They all have to eat to work and a lot of energy is used to produce that food. All of this and more is encapsulated in the price.
LOL, no. It can sit in my garage getting used every couple weeks for the next 10 years. That's what I do with trucks. They are utility vehicles.
Smaller than a Bolt? The HD truck is my tow pig. And please don't suggest renting one as an alternative, that is a non-starter. I'll just assume you're unfamiliar with the mechanics of towing an RV.
F350 are rare in Europe, which does not mean that they (or similar vehicles) are not available, but they are also not as practical to use as in the US.
Good context here!
Our truck has a listed towing capacity of 12,500# - 5,670 kg.
My dad and I are driving ~90mi tomorrow each way to pick up an inline bale trailer he just bought. We checked hay prices in that area, and they're cheaper than what we can buy locally - enough cheaper that we bought eight bales to bring back with us. Each bale is ~1,200# (+/- ~200#), for a combined load weight of 9,600#. The trailer weighs 2,700#, so we'll be towing ~12,300#. The truck itself is another ~7,000#, and by the time you figure in fuel and occupants, we'll have a GCWR of right at 20,000#.
In short, tomorrow I'll be driving that truck and responsible for TEN TONS going down the road.
The BMW X3 would have to make four trips hauling two bales each: 2,400 kg = 5,290#; the trailer weighs 2,700#, two bales weigh 2,400#, leaving only 190# of excess capacity. Even then, there's no way I'd be comfortable driving an X3 with that much weigh, that distance - and that's not even considering that the trailer is a gooseneck.
I think of the truck as ~1/4 of a semi tractor. We can haul most things ourselves, more cheaply and with less environmental impact than hiring a professional hauler.