This and waiting for Ronnie to end the world with the push of a button.
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In my town, there are mostly electric vehicles nowadays. I was out walking along a larger road in my neighborhood when I noticed a bus and two cars passing each other, and it suddenly hit me that earlier in my life, that would have been a very noisy affair, but it wasn't. I also realized how much the world used to smell like gas. And does anyone else remember the rainbow colored gas puddles you used to see and smell in parking lots? I don't remember the last time I saw any of those.
Then I realized there is a world where my kids can grow up outside of noise pollution, cigarette smoke and car fumes, and it made me a little more hopeful about the future.
What town do you live in that has more electric cars than gas powered? Doesn’t sound believable; but if it is, then that’s fuckin’ sick.
93.9% of new cars sold in Norway are EVs, a further 5% are hybrids.
I don't know what that translates to in terms of cars currently on the road though. But that's also stats for the whole country. You can imagine in a relatively affluent area where there are mostly new cars the vast majority of them are probably EVs.
Scandinavia, like that guy guessed, is right
I'd guess in Scandinavia
I guess France has a city with ONLY electric vehicles. Only have 27 people living there though lol
I remember those puddles. You're right I haven't seen them in years.
Are you from the future?
Remember playing in those fucking puddles? Swimming and them? Eating fish from them?
Well, the bigger ones.
Do people not maintain their cars cause ive only seen gasoline puddles out in the desert from folks rupturing their tanks while offroading. That should not be frequent enough for it to be normal.
Old cars must have leaked more frequently without it breaking them, because I can remember oily puddles under parked cars quite a lot from my childhood (which was in the 90s).
Huh, maybe cars are just better maintained in my region or maybe the environment is harsher to cars in your region. And yeah old cars will be like "I just shot out two of my cylinders through the hood, only lost 20% efficiency!"