this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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A screenshot of an ad for a car company advertising the Fisker Ocean, an electric SUV, claiming to be making "the world's most sustainable vehicles".

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[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does it disassemble into two electric bikes or four electric unicycles? 🤔

[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better yet, 8 electric demi-cycles

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] lemann@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

256 marbles

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

64 electric, umm... cock rings? Sorry, I do not know the polite term.

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How are these noobs not aware of the existence of bicycles?

[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have these greenwashing ghouls never heard of an electric train or a bicycle?

Evidently not.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Why have those when you can have One More Lane TM

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It's sustainable, you just don't understand the manufacturing process well enough. Seeds of old trucks are planted in the ground which generate the next truck crop for harvest in the fall.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

most sustainable vehicle has always been and will forever continue to be the bicycle

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago
  1. It's marketing so it's a lie.

  2. Addiction to cars make EVs sustainable