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

譯者: 昕宜 粘 審譯者: Shelley Tsang 曾雯海

The number one source of carbon emissions in the United States

美國碳排放的第一來源

is coming from transportation.

是交通運輸

Globally, it's number two.

以全球來說，它排名第二

And the majority of that comes from our personal use,

排名第一來自個人用途

our cars and trucks.

也就是我們的汽車和貨車

How do we consume less energy while meeting the needs

我們要如何在消耗更少能源的同時

that people have of transportation?

滿足人們對交通運輸的需求？

[In the Green: The Business of Climate Action]

［環保永續：氣候行動的事業］

[Presented by TED Countdown and The Climate Pledge]

［TED Countdown 及氣候宣言呈現］

[Wayne Ting, Company: Lime]

［韋恩·丁，公司：萊姆］

[Sector: Micro-mobility Location: USA]

［領域：微移動 地點：美國］

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

世界上大部分車子的車程小於五英里

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

這是個簡單的問題： 我們可以讓更多人少開車

and bike more and scooter more to where they go?

多騎腳踏車和滑板車到他們去的地方嗎？

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

電動腳踏車或電動滑板車的平均車程產生的碳排放

produces less than seven percent carbon emissions

相比車子在相同車程內產生的碳排放

of an equivalent car trip.

少了百分之七

Micro-mobility is dramatically more green than alternatives,

微移動明顯比其他交通方式環保

and we're working every single day

而且我們每天都在努力

to reduce our own carbon emissions even further.

減少更多碳排放

So what sometimes happens is that a company would say,

有時可能會發生這樣的事， 某家公司會說

"What is the dirtiest part of our business?

＂我們公司最髒的部分是什麼？

Let's just outsource it.

我們把它外包吧

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

如果我們外包， 問題就解決了＂

But that doesn't actually solve your problem

但這無法實際地解決問題

because somebody else is polluting and emitting.

因為其他人還在排放汙染

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

如果我們要實踐理想

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

我們必須做到人們一直在做的關鍵：

reduce, reuse and recycle.

減少使用、物盡其用和循環回收

The early days of micro-mobility,

早期的微移動

we took a consumer scooter or a consumer e-bike

我們把一輛電動滑板車或電動腳踏車

and we put it into a commercial space.

放在商業空間

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

意思是一般的滑板車可以使用一個月

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

試想，每個月我們需要 幫全世界買下一整車隊的滑板車

And that was not green.

這不環保

And it created an enormous amount of shipping cost,

還產生了巨額的運費

manufacturing cost, upstream

生產成本、逆境

and ultimately it created problems

最終造成

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

電動滑板車和腳踏車壽終正寢的問題

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

所以我們找了製造業的夥伴， 他們可以製造壽命四、五年

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

而非一個月的電動滑板車和電動腳踏車

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

我們還認為， 不能只在意它的使用壽命多長

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

還需要看有多少部分是可以再利用的

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

所以我們開始說， 重新設計整個電動腳踏車和電動滑板車吧

so that if a scooter does break,

這樣如果滑板車壞了

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

我們可以把它拆開來利用很多零件

We started to use a swappable battery technology.

我們開始使用可交換的電池科技

Not only does it increase the life,

它不只延長了使用壽命

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

還能減少出動支援滑板車

to actually support our fleet.

的來回趟次

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

我們也在持續努力

that we actually send to landfill.

減少送往垃圾場的廢料

As our batteries get to the end of life,

電池生命週期將盡時

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

可能沒有足夠電力以啟動電動腳踏車

but that battery can still power many, many things.

但那個電池還可以驅動很多東西

We started partnering with a portable speaker maker,

我們開始和一個攜帶型喇叭製造商合作

and we take that battery

我們把

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

電力不足以驅動滑板車的電池

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

變成攜帶型喇叭的電池

and it extends and it recycles into that life.

將它回收並延續到新的生命中

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

這些大部分都不屬於直接的碳排放

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

但我們在乎， 因為我們要關注的是

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

真正的產品端到端的生命週期

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

我看待這些， 不單只是一兩件事而已

it's 100 little actions we do.

而是我們付出的無數個小行動

And it starts with understanding

這要從

and measuring our own environmental impact

理解和衡量環境衝擊開始

and challenging ourselves to do better.

同時挑戰自己做得更好

We have to work at building a future of transportation

我們要努力營造未來

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

一個擁有共享、可負擔的無碳交通的未來