I assumed money is tight. He put together a cute project out of scraps.

eBikes are expensive

My EV would do the job better, faster, and use even less gasoline, but I’m not fooling myself that most people can simply buy one

And think about the wear & tear on those cheap plastic wheels. Not sure if those are even replaceable. That would be a whole new effort & expense to replace those after they quickly wear down.

And if we shared cars instead of owning them it would also save on gas for everyone

And if we paid someone to drive the car around for us it would be swell

Also if we do that we might as well make the car bigger

You know what's more efficient on gas than rubber on road? Metal. If we made the wheels metal we would have like zero rolling resistance

That tears up roads though so we should probably pave the roads with metal

That's kind of expensive, so we should only pave metal directly underneath where our metal wheeled car will drive

If we're going to do all of that it should be bigger. Multiple cars connected together.

Hey we can get rid of gas entirely? We could run this thing using catenary arms and overhead cables. GENIUS!

But what if I crash, because of running red lights or because I don't know how to operate a vehicle? I can't possibly put my life at risk. Let the other guy take the hit.

It's a cool hobbyist project but was spun into a "way to save on gas" in the news report.

Nearly everything on wheels is street legal in some states - Georgia might be one of them?

this certainly wont pass any crash tests

It would look way less cool though

But he'd have to either take a class or pass a test... you can see his dilemma, here!

Spira also

They will use anything but metric.

You ever shop for an electric motor? Dood could likely make like 4 go carts for the cost of an electric conversion. Shits wild.

Most people don’t have a spare electric drivetrain in their garage, though.

We can't afford new cars. I mean some can but most of us buy what's barely affordable.

Electric cars do cause air pollution. A lot of the pollution cars produce is from tyre dust.

The funny thing about this article is that small cars have existed since forever but Americans always go for the larger, for inefficient cars.

Not far. And not street legal either.

Like a cream-filled hard candy.

americans care too much about looks, the consumption propaganda is too internalized in their "culture"