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[–] TheDolphinsWereRight@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might be missing something but how do EVs help with congestion? Do more people car share with an EV?

[–] snacks@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

are you actually missing something or on a wind up? Congestion is a problem of air quality.

[–] midgephoto@photog.social 4 points 1 year ago

@snacks @TheDolphinsWereRight
There's congestion which is a stuffed up nose, as with hay fever, and there's congestion which is 21 vehicles on a piece of road with capacity* for 20.

In context of EVs the latter would seem the more obvious to most of us in English.

(*It is more complex than that, of course, but a relative shortage of usable slots between and for vehicles is the essence)