A Carbon-Free Future Starts With Driving Less | Wayne Ting | TED

翻译人员: Chunheng Luo 校对人员: Yip Yan Yeung

The number one source of carbon emissions in the United States

在美国，交通运输位列 碳排放来源榜单首位。

is coming from transportation.

Globally, it's number two.

全球范围内，它排在了第二位。

And the majority of that comes from our personal use,

这其中的大部分来自于个人用途——

our cars and trucks.

我们的汽车与卡车。

How do we consume less energy while meeting the needs

我们如何在满足运输需求的同时， 消耗更少的能源？

that people have of transportation?

[In the Green: The Business of Climate Action]

[In the Green: The Business of Climate Action 栏目]

[Presented by TED Countdown and The Climate Pledge]

[由 TED Countdown 气候宣言呈现]

[Wayne Ting, Company: Lime]

[韦恩·丁（Wayne Ting） 公司： Lime]

[Sector: Micro-mobility Location: USA]

[行业：微型交通，地区：美国]

The majority of car trips in the world today are less than five miles.

如今，世界上大部分的汽车旅程 要小于五英里。

It’s a simple question: Can we get more people to drive less

问题很简单：我们能否 让更多的人减少开车，

and bike more and scooter more to where they go?

更多地选择骑脚踏车与踏板车出行？

The average trip on an e-bike or e-scooter

与同等距离的汽车旅程相比，

电动自行车与电动踏板车 所产生的的碳排放要少 7% 。

produces less than seven percent carbon emissions

of an equivalent car trip.

Micro-mobility is dramatically more green than alternatives,

微型交通比其他交通方式 绿色环保得多，

and we're working every single day

我们每一天都在努力， 进一步降低自己带来的碳排放。

to reduce our own carbon emissions even further.

So what sometimes happens is that a company would say,

你可能偶尔会听到有公司这样说：

"What is the dirtiest part of our business?

“我们的工作里 最脏最累的部分是什么？

Let's just outsource it.

咱们把这部分外包出去。

And if we outsource it, we've solved our problems."

只要外包出去， 我们的问题就解决了。”

But that doesn't actually solve your problem

但是这没有真正解决你的问题，

because somebody else is polluting and emitting.

因为其他人还是在制造污染和排放。

If we're going to live up to our own ideals

如果想要实现理想，

then we need to do the core of what folks have always done:

那我们就要坚持做 以下几件至关重要的事情：

reduce, reuse and recycle.

减少使用、重复使用 以及回收利用。

The early days of micro-mobility,

微型交通行业发展的前期，

we took a consumer scooter or a consumer e-bike

我们将踏板车和电动脚踏车包装好，

and we put it into a commercial space.

然后将它们投入市场。

And what that meant was that our average scooter lasted a month.

结果踏板车的平均使用寿命 仅有一个月。

Imagine that, every month we need to buy an entire fleet for the world.

想象一下，每个月我们都要 向市场投入一批全新的踏板车。

And that was not green.

这并不绿色环保。

And it created an enormous amount of shipping cost,

它产生了巨额的运费、

manufacturing cost, upstream

制造成本、上游费用，

and ultimately it created problems

最终还带来了使用寿命到期后的 踏板车与脚踏车的处理问题。

in terms of end of life of our scooters and e-bikes.

And so we found manufacturing partners that can build scooters and e-bikes

于是我们开始寻找可以生产 使用寿命为四五年，而不是一个月的

that last four years, five years, rather than a month.

踏板车和脚踏车合作制造商。

We also then said, OK, it's not just how long it lasts,

使用年限很重要，

it also depends on how many of the parts we can reuse.

有多少零部件可以重复使用 也非常重要。

And so we started to say, let's redesign our entire e-bikes and e-scooters

我们开始思索，不如把我们的电动 脚踏车、电动踏板车整个推翻重来，

so that if a scooter does break,

这样，一旦踏板车坏掉了，

we can take it apart and reuse many parts of that scooter.

我们能将它拆分并且 重复使用很多零部件。

We started to use a swappable battery technology.

我们也开始使用可替换电池技术。

Not only does it increase the life,

这不仅提高了使用寿命，

it also reduces the number of trips we have to take back and forth

也减少了我们来来回回忙活 为车充电的次数与烦恼。

to actually support our fleet.

And we're constantly working to reduce the amount of waste

我们一直在努力减少 送到垃圾填埋厂的废弃物数量。

that we actually send to landfill.

As our batteries get to the end of life,

当我们的电池临近 使用寿命尽头时，

they may not have sufficient charge to power an e-bike,

它们可能不再有足够的电量 为电动脚踏车供电，

but that battery can still power many, many things.

但它们还可以为很多其他东西 提供能量。

We started partnering with a portable speaker maker,

我们开始与一家 便携式音箱制作商合作，

and we take that battery

带去了一个不再能为 踏板车供电的电池，

that today doesn't have enough juice to power somebody on a scooter

and we turn it into the battery for the portable speaker,

将它变成了便携式音箱的电池，

and it extends and it recycles into that life.

于是电池得到了回收利用， 使用生命得以延续。

A lot of these things wouldn't be part of our direct carbon emissions,

很多事情并不会直接成为 我们碳排放行动的一部分，

but we care about it because the thing that we have to count

不过我们很在意， 因为我们考虑的是

is the true end to end life cycle of our products.

我们产品真正的 端到端的生命周期。

When I look across all these things, it's not one thing, it's not two things,

当我纵观这些事情， 它不是一件事，不是两件事。

it's 100 little actions we do.

是我们做的一百件小事。

And it starts with understanding

它起始于理解与衡量 我们自己带来的环境影响，

and measuring our own environmental impact

and challenging ourselves to do better.

并且挑战自我，要做得更好。

We have to work at building a future of transportation

我们需要创建交通方式的未来，

that is shared, affordable, but most importantly, carbon-free.

它是共享的，是人们支付得起的， 但是最重要的，它是无碳的。