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Electric Vehicles Are No Silver Bullet - Transportation Fixes Must Go Further
22 Feb 2023 | Abstracted from Common Dreams
"Expanding mass transit, walking, and cycling in addition to electrifying a reduced, right-sized U.S. EV fleet can improve people's health and mobility, avoid bottlenecks and broaden political support for the global green transition.
"...we face the possibility of slowing progress to meet emissions targets under the greenwashed guise of electrifying increasingly super-sized vehicles..
...a future that ensures more access to e-transit, cycling, and walking alongside EV adoption would not only grant people more affordable options for getting around, it would also be safer for pedestrians and faster at slashing emissions.."
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