【TED演讲稿】无碳的未来始于减少开车出行

TED演讲者：Wayne Ting / 韦恩·丁

演讲标题：A carbon-free future starts with driving less / 无碳的未来始于减少开车出行

内容概要：Can we use less energy from fossil fuels while also meeting our transportation needs? Enter shared electric micromobility: the transition away from dependence on cars and towards lightweight transport options like electric scooters, which release a fraction of the carbon emissions of conventional transport. Helping people get around on the world's largest shared electric vehicles system, entrepreneur and Lime CEO Wayne Ting shares how his company redesigned their scooters so parts can be reused and recycled, ultimately reducing their direct and indirect carbon output. "We have to work at building a future of transportation that is shared, affordable, but most importantly, carbon-free," he says.

我们可以更少地使用化石燃料能源，但与此同时还能满足出行需求吗？共享式电动微型交通：减少对于汽车的依赖，转向轻量交通的过程，比如电动踏板车，它只产生传统交通方式一部分的碳排放。帮助人们了解世界上最大的共享电动交通工具平台， Lime 公司的首席执行官，企业家韦恩·丁（Wayne Ting）分享了他的公司如何重新设计踏板车，使产品的零部件可以被重复使用和回收利用，最终直接或间接地帮助减少碳排放。他说：“我们需要创建运输方式的未来，它是共享的，是人们支付得起的，但是最重要的，它是无碳的。”

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【1】The number one source of carbon emissions in the United States is coming from transportation.

在美国,交通运输位列 碳排放来源榜单首位。

【2】Globally, it's number two.

全球范围内,它排在了第二位。

【3】And the majority of that comes from our personal use, our cars and trucks.

这其中的大部分来自于个人用途—— 我们的汽车与卡车。

【4】How do we consume less energy while meeting the needs that people have of transportation?

我们如何在满足运输需求的同时, 消耗更少的能源？

【5】[In the Green: The Business of Climate Action]

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

【6】[Presented by TED Countdown and The Climate Pledge]

[由 TED Countdown 气候宣言呈现]

【7】[Wayne Ting, Company: Lime]

[韦恩·丁（Wayne Ting） 公司: Lime]

【8】[Sector: Micro-mobility Location: USA] The majority of car trips in the world today are less than five miles.

[行业:微型交通,地区:美国] 如今,世界上大部分的汽车旅程 要小于五英里。

【9】It’s a simple question: Can we get more people to drive less and bike more and scooter more to where they go?

问题很简单:我们能否 让更多的人减少开车, 更多地选择骑脚踏车与踏板车出行？

【10】The average trip on an e-bike or e-scooter produces less than seven percent carbon emissions of an equivalent car trip.

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% 。

【11】Micro-mobility is dramatically more green than alternatives, and we're working every single day to reduce our own carbon emissions even further.

微型交通比其他交通方式 绿色环保得多, 我们每一天都在努力, 进一步降低自己带来的碳排放。

【12】So what sometimes happens is that a company would say, "What is the dirtiest part of our business?

你可能偶尔会听到有公司这样说: “我们的工作里 最脏最累的部分是什么？

【13】Let's just outsource it.

咱们把这部分外包出去。

【14】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。”

【15】But that doesn't actually solve your problem because somebody else is polluting and emitting.

但是这没有真正解决你的问题, 因为其他人还是在制造污染和排放。

【16】If we're going to live up to our own ideals then we need to do the core of what folks have always done: reduce, reuse and recycle.

如果想要实现理想, 那我们就要坚持做 以下几件至关重要的事情: 减少使用、重复使用 以及回收利用。

【17】The early days of micro-mobility, we took a consumer scooter or a consumer e-bike and we put it into a commercial space.

微型交通行业发展的前期, 我们将踏板车和电动脚踏车包装好, 然后将它们投入市场。

【18】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。

【19】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。

【20】And that was not green.

这并不绿色环保。

【21】And it created an enormous amount of shipping cost, manufacturing cost, upstream and ultimately it created problems in terms of end of life of our scooters and e-bikes.

它产生了巨额的运费、 制造成本、上游费用, 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。

【22】And so we found manufacturing partners that can build scooters and e-bikes that last four years, five years, rather than a month.

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 踏板车和脚踏车合作制造商。

【23】We also then said, OK, it's not just how long it lasts, it also depends on how many of the parts we can reuse.

使用年限很重要, 有多少零部件可以重复使用 也非常重要。

【24】And so we started to say, let's redesign our entire e-bikes and e-scooters so that if a scooter does break, we can take it apart and reuse many parts of that scooter.

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, 这样,一旦踏板车坏掉了, 我们能将它拆分并且 重复使用很多零部件。

【25】We started to use a swappable battery technology.

我们也开始使用可替换电池技术。

【26】Not only does it increase the life, it also reduces the number of trips we have to take back and forth to actually support our fleet.

这不仅提高了使用寿命, 也减少了我们来来回回忙活 为车充电的次数与烦恼。

【27】And we're constantly working to reduce the amount of waste that we actually send to landfill.

我们一直在努力减少 送到垃圾填埋厂的废弃物数量。

【28】As our batteries get to the end of life, they may not have sufficient charge to power an e-bike, but that battery can still power many, many things.

当我们的电池临近 使用寿命尽头时, 它们可能不再有足够的电量 为电动脚踏车供电, 但它们还可以为很多其他东西 提供能量。

【29】We started partnering with a portable speaker maker, and we take that battery that today doesn't have enough juice to power somebody on a scooter and we turn it into the battery for the portable speaker, and it extends and it recycles into that life.

我们开始与一家 便携式音箱制作商合作, 带去了一个不再能为 踏板车供电的电池, 将它变成了便携式音箱的电池, 于是电池得到了回收利用, 使用生命得以延续。

【30】A lot of these things wouldn't be part of our direct carbon emissions, but we care about it because the thing that we have to count is the true end to end life cycle of our products.

很多事情并不会直接成为 我们碳排放行动的一部分, 不过我们很在意, 因为我们考虑的是 我们产品真正的 端到端的生命周期。

【31】When I look across all these things, it's not one thing, it's not two things, it's 100 little actions we do.

当我纵观这些事情, 它不是一件事,不是两件事。 是我们做的一百件小事。

【32】And it starts with understanding and measuring our own environmental impact and challenging ourselves to do better.

它起始于理解与衡量 我们自己带来的环境影响, 并且挑战自我,要做得更好。

【33】We have to work at building a future of transportation that is shared, affordable, but most importantly, carbon-free.

我们需要创建交通方式的未来, 它是共享的,是人们支付得起的, 但是最重要的,它是无碳的。