I remember bringing up this problem years ago, and I was told that I need to change the way I think of travel and that people aren't meant to drive to the next city in one go.
We could have an entire ecosystem of electric city cars almost immediately with one easy step nobody wants to do: Completely deregulate electric city cars on roads whose speed limit is less than 60km/h.
It would mean a lot of risk. People could get hurt or die. People might drive cars that aren't very good. All kinds of crazy things would happen, and a lot of them wouldn't be good.
But in just a few years, something interesting would happen. We have the technology to create a cost-effective electric city car. Not cost effective compared to a luxury car, but cost effective compared to a monthly bus pass over a few years -- something the working poor could afford.
All kinds of people who don't have any transportation would have personal transportation, and all kinds of people on the borderline who drive old, unmaintained fossil fuel vehicles who don't really need them would likely get rid of them and switch to electric city cars.
Other people who can afford an ICE car may also decide it makes more sense to convert to a city car as well.
Unsurprisingly, it isn't even within the realm of possibility to do something like this because everything else is more important.
Since we're not willing to compromise at all, electric cars need to be everything everyone wants in a car or else you're asking people to pay a lot of money for a thing that doesn't even do as much as the thing they'd be giving up. "Oh, just live with it" seems like a "Let them eat cake" statement.
It would mean a lot of risk. People could get hurt or die. People might drive cars that aren't very good. All kinds of crazy things would happen, and a lot of them wouldn't be good.
But in just a few years, something interesting would happen. We have the technology to create a cost-effective electric city car. Not cost effective compared to a luxury car, but cost effective compared to a monthly bus pass over a few years -- something the working poor could afford.
All kinds of people who don't have any transportation would have personal transportation, and all kinds of people on the borderline who drive old, unmaintained fossil fuel vehicles who don't really need them would likely get rid of them and switch to electric city cars.
Other people who can afford an ICE car may also decide it makes more sense to convert to a city car as well.
Unsurprisingly, it isn't even within the realm of possibility to do something like this because everything else is more important.
Since we're not willing to compromise at all, electric cars need to be everything everyone wants in a car or else you're asking people to pay a lot of money for a thing that doesn't even do as much as the thing they'd be giving up. "Oh, just live with it" seems like a "Let them eat cake" statement.
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