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A friend of mine who grew up in China told me about these 3 wheel electric cars that could carry 2 people and a bit of cargo that all kinds of people would drive around when he was in high school. It meant more people had personal transportation, and because they were small and not meant for use on highways, they used very little material and didn't need overwhelming amounts of batteries so were relatively inexpensive and didn't need special measures to charge. Some people even started businesses driving people around a taxi service sort of thing.

Soon the government caught wind of it and cracked down on it since only driving around expensive looking cars maintained china's "face".

Something like this is a solution to several problems at once. Many people don't have personal transportation at all, and this would provide them with something they can afford. Just like hybrids, it wouldn't require overwhelming electrical infrastructure and depending on how they're built you could potentially carry spare batteries so you might not need to charge remotely.

But just like with hybrids being a solution they don't care about because it can enable improvement while actually helping people's quality of life, it seems like electric city cars aren't an option either. The only option they're interested in is returning to feudalism where the poor live in mud huts and the rich live in castles surrounded by the best of everything.