Car Culture Chaos
What early car made it possible for everyone to drive?
What is the Ford Model T?
How much does owning a car cost Americans per year?
What is $10,400?
Transportation is what percent of U.S. carbon emissions?
What is 28%
What super annoying rule makes developers build giant parking lots?
What are parking minimums?
What kind of battery powers most electric cars?
What is a lithium-ion battery?
What massive highway project in the 1950s basically made road trips possible?
What is the Interstate Highway System?
How much does the average new car cost these days?
What is about $48,000?
About what percent of U.S. travel miles come from personal vehicles?
What is 81%
Why are suburban cities almost impossible to walk in?
What is zoning separates houses from stores?
Name one problem with making lithium batteries.
What is mining pollution or resource depletion?
What was the main way people got around cities before cars took over?
What is walking or streetcars?
What is the average annual cost of car insurance?
What is about $2,019?
Name one way to make car emissions less terrible.
What is fuel switching, better design, or reducing trips?
What is a sneaky reason “sidewalks” don't automatically mean walkability?
What is because destinations are still too far apart?
EVs are cooler than gas cars at what? (Hint: It happens at 0 RPM.)
What is peak torque?
Suburbs were built with walkers in mind.
What is False?
About what percent of an American's yearly income goes to keeping one car alive?
What is 14%?
What term measures emissions per person during travel?
What is emissions per passenger-kilometer?
Cities invest billions into what car-focused thing every year?
What are roads and highways?
What are the three "R" strategies to deal with old EV batteries?
What are remanufacture, reuse, and recycle?
What city famously destroyed its public transit to promote car travel?
What is Los Angeles?
Americans are buried under over how much auto loan debt?
What is $1.6 trillion?
What are adverse consequences of automotive infrastructure?
What are heat islands?
What city model proposes that everything you need should be within a 15-minute walk or bike ride?
What is the 15-minute city?
Why does it matter where your electricity comes from when driving an EV?
What is because a dirty grid = dirty EV emissions?