Post #2391033
2025-10-18 08:20 UTC
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@flxtr@social.tchncs.de 2025-10-18 11:01
@cypherhippie@chaos.social @lalonsander@chaos.social Furthermore, if I interpret this correctly, the weight of vehicles seems to contribute to their calculated efficiency. Since the main purpose of vehicles is transportation, I believe that energy consumption should be divided by payload rather than mass.
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@wesdym@mastodon.social 2025-10-19 13:58
@cypherhippie@chaos.social That's true for rail (which by definition requires infrastructure), but not for others. Certain specific implementations -- such as what urban dwellers are used to seeing -- usually do, but they all have cousins that don't. No Land Rover or mountain bike requires a road, for example. As for off-road velomobiles, I don't know of specific examples, but I'm sure they're out there, or can be made.