Electric Vehicles

2492 readers

135 users here now

Overview:

Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

sabreW4K3@slrpnk.net

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works

Sunshine@piefed.ca

173

Gas shortages, you say? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by hylobates@jlai.lu to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but the economies of scale of cargo transport generally mean that the percentage of the total cost attributable to fuel cost is usually pretty small.

Take bananas, for example. If they cost $0.70 per pound at the store, how much fuel could have been used getting a pound of bananas from the plantation to the port, shipped from that port to a port in the United States, then from that port to a distribution center, then to the store? So what would doubling the price of fuel do for the price of bananas?

With more expensive items, shipping (and therefore fuel) is an even lower percentage of the total input costs.

The price of goods will go up with the price of fuel, but not as much as a lot of people seem to assume.