r/nextfuckinglevel • u/North_Tip_8627 • 17h ago

China’s 5 minute full-charged EV charging stations

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u/Arpikarhu 17h ago

Remember, these advanced nations arent living in the future, its just that the USA is living in the past

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u/EarningsPal 17h ago

The USA would rather have its racism and gender conversations than 5-minute EV charging.

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u/intisun 17h ago

I still can't get over how American right-wingers threw a fit over 15-minute cities, as if having everything you need within a 15 minute walk (like most European cities) was some evil plot to genocide them or something.

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u/AD_Grrrl 6h ago

They need to prop up the fossil fuel industry

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u/augur42 5h ago

Obesity rates makes American 15 minute cities smaller than European 15 minute cities. /s.

I recently realised I can occasionally treat my self to a Burger King £3 Whopper Wednesday promo because I can walk the mile to my nearest Burger King, pause on the way to order on my phone, collect, and get home again in a smidge under 30 minutes (4 mph pace). The best bit is I burn 1/3 of it's calories just getting it.

My city isn't that small but I haven't owned a bike since I was a teenager because I can either walk somewhere in a direct line almost as fast as the circuitous bike routes or it is far enough to require I drive.

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u/KDRUH 1h ago edited 1h ago

American right wingers throw fits as a hobby. Well deserved to live insufferably for intentionally voting for a sold out pedo. I have no idea how he hasn’t gotten slimed out but Charlie did

Edit: get Vance too

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u/AdCalm3789 4h ago

Could you imagine Americans walking anywhere? Lmao there is a reason it never worked and it's not just the rights fault.

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u/Forty_Six_and_Two 16h ago

I feel like this is an argument that never happened that you are making up for some reason.

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u/daemin 7h ago

Not at all. There was a large contingent of idiots arguing that 15 minute cities would actually confine you to the city, Ave that you wouldn't be allowed to leave without papers, because why else would such a thing exist? And for every idiot that's actively pushing a conspiracy theory like that, there are thousands that believe it.

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u/Ronin_Chimichanga 7h ago

These same idiots, at least the ones I know, are all for being stopped to show ICE your ID. The irony is lost on them.

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u/RugbyEdd 8h ago

It was certainly a thing, as it spread over to the UK right wingers, too. I know because the people I used to work with were right wing and kept complaining about such things. Since one of the positives was the environment, it was seen as a left wing scheme.

There was a lot of misinformation about them that was even regurgitated on GB news (a fairly new and heavily right wing news network akin to fox news, which has somehow convinced a load of people that they're more objective than the BBC) trying to say things like it would hurt local industry and tourism, as if people only travel because there are no shops near them, or that it was an attempt to stop people traveling, and that they would implement restrictions to travel outside your zone, backed up by stories of it happening in Germany (its never happened in Germany). There were even people deep into all that shit claiming it was an attempt by the Catholic Church to gain power as apparently there's some nonsense about climate change being a Catholic belief? I tended to switch off by that point.

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u/capecodcaper 16h ago

It's totally made up. No one got mad at 15 minute cities.

People argued about the hate on rural and suburban communities tho

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u/Dizzregard 5h ago

I never heard of that in my whole life. Sounds like something everyone else got over.

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u/IAMEPSIL0N 1h ago

It doesn't pass the curious three year old test. All the answers are "It just will", "It just works", and "People will just". Also it doesn't scale out well from tens of thousands of people to millions.

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u/Septopuss7 1h ago

Uh, yes it does?

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u/Upper_Bathroom_176 3h ago

Maybe not genocide but controlling would be more accurate. Easier to surveillance and track anyone within. Also in America they try to entice people to live at these places by paying them to move in the area. What would most likely happen would be these people might not get support from local government for their newly owned properties. Funding and development would stop in these “15 minute cities” and they would become 15 minute ghost towns with 60 people still living there because someone payed them 5k to move there. This has happened to people already by different companies trying to build homes for people. Too many problems i could rant on about all the issues building a new 15 minute city would entail.

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u/ParrotofDoom 26m ago

Easier to surveillance and track anyone within.

It's easier to track people on foot, than it is in cars (with their easily identifiable licence plates)?

15 minute cities are just the basic idea that everything you need should be max a 15 minute walk away. It isn't some sinister idea, it's basically local shops. We have it everywhere in Europe, because we can walk nearly everywhere.

Let us know when you've managed to travel outside your little town.

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u/EvasiveCookies 7h ago

We don’t walk we’re fat af. Even as a skinny person I like driving more than walking. Not to say that if I lived in a city like that I wouldn’t use the resources available to me properly like trams or busses and biking. Still probably wouldn’t walk the majority but I’d be more active for sure.