Electric Cars Are Not The Future Of Transport

20 Jan 2024 | Abstracted from Irish Times

EV's "are still worthwhile for people in sprawling suburbs, who drive long distances every day...But an electric car doesn't make sense for individual urbanites. Even in the US, about half of car journeys in the busiest cities are less than three miles.

"For a city-dweller ditching a petrol car, the calculation then becomes: instead of an EV, can I buy a much cheaper, health-giving e-bike..."

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