Electric cars are a bad marketing gimmick. That's all. Buy yourself a cover of a magazine. Then hire a half-baked wannabe journalist with the instructions to use words like "visionary" and "pioneer". That's it. YouTube and Twitter will adopt you and follow you blindly wherever you go. Even if you manipulate the crypto market for a profit, they will loyally continue to believe your electric cars are the solution to all our problems. No questions asked.
In the real world, away from Twitter, the questions remain - what about the mining issue for the Lithium needed for the batteries. And what exactly do we do with all the batteries once they reach the end of their life cycle?
That's the one that scares me the most because it seems to be the real threat that everyone, manufacturers and consumers, are kicking down the road in the hopes someone comes up with a solution by then.
What we need is organized, reliable public transport. Not more private cars. We need to reorganize how/where we work vs where we live (we could be taking advantage of the current situation to evolve). Our governments could be creating incentives for businesses to HQ outside of the city centres, for example, to create jobs closer to where people live.
Then, we need to create plenty more routes for walkers and cyclists.
In most major cities of Europe, at least, it is probably more harmful to cycle/walk in the city today than not.
Apologies for the ramble. But thank you for the article.
The most environmentally mode is walking. Cycling is a close second. We need to think about how accommodating too many cars degrades our urban settlements.
Electric cars are a bad marketing gimmick. That's all. Buy yourself a cover of a magazine. Then hire a half-baked wannabe journalist with the instructions to use words like "visionary" and "pioneer". That's it. YouTube and Twitter will adopt you and follow you blindly wherever you go. Even if you manipulate the crypto market for a profit, they will loyally continue to believe your electric cars are the solution to all our problems. No questions asked.
In the real world, away from Twitter, the questions remain - what about the mining issue for the Lithium needed for the batteries. And what exactly do we do with all the batteries once they reach the end of their life cycle?
That's the one that scares me the most because it seems to be the real threat that everyone, manufacturers and consumers, are kicking down the road in the hopes someone comes up with a solution by then.
What we need is organized, reliable public transport. Not more private cars. We need to reorganize how/where we work vs where we live (we could be taking advantage of the current situation to evolve). Our governments could be creating incentives for businesses to HQ outside of the city centres, for example, to create jobs closer to where people live.
Then, we need to create plenty more routes for walkers and cyclists.
In most major cities of Europe, at least, it is probably more harmful to cycle/walk in the city today than not.
Apologies for the ramble. But thank you for the article.
The most environmentally mode is walking. Cycling is a close second. We need to think about how accommodating too many cars degrades our urban settlements.