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"EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of
individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more
roads-greater distances-more cars dictate that the future of our cities and
planet requires public transit – lots of it.
But no matter how much public transit we install, there's always going to be
some personal vehicles on the road, and not just bikes, ebikes and scooters.
Between deliveries, accessibility, and stubbornly low-density regions, there's
going to be a lot of cars, vans and trucks on the road for the foreseeable
future, and these should be electric.
Beyond that irreducible minimum of personal vehicles, there's the fact that
individuals can't install their own public transit system; in places that lack
the political will or means to create working transit, EVs are a way for people
to significantly reduce their personal emissions.
In policy circles, EV adoption is treated as a logistical and financial issue,
so governments have focused on making EVs affordable and increasing the density
of charging stations. As an EV owner, I can affirm that affordability and
logistics were important concerns when we were shopping for a car.
But there's a third EV problem that is almost entirely off policy radar:
enshittification."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
