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The plan shouldn’t be to replace 100% of existing ICE cars with electric cars. The carbon impact of the construction of those would still be too high. The plan should be to invest in public transport and electric bicycles, and use electric cars when either of those options isn’t enough, to complement.

All cities built around cars (and that’s almost every American city for instance) will have to change—either by arranging for bicycles and building public transport or through floods, fires, and hurricanes.




I think this is the key. Almost too the point that car sized private vehicles should be banned from the inner city.


Yes, but I don't see that happening in the near and not so near future.


My 82 years old, disabled dad disagrees that this is a good idea.


With awareness of having zero context, I'd believe your 82 year old disabled dad, and the general public, would be safer if he was not allowed to drive a car in the inner city.




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