Quote Originally Posted by echappist View Post
If you are saying a saving of 45% (compared to ICE, and this conveniently omits the much higher up-front cost of EVs) is worthwhile, then much more worthwhile would be to get people to do most of their chores on bikes/ electric assist bikes.
Abso-fucking-lutely. You get an amen from this congregation. Our current over-reliance, over-acceptance, and over-enabling of using the single-occupant automobile for too many, too short trips is at the heart of the problem.

I rode my bike to work today but I should do it all the time. The population of my town will more than double this weekend, and while not all of those students bring cars with them, a whole lot of them do. But the biggest change in traffic will come from parents dropping kids off at the three schools between my house and work. I'm hoping that more of those folks see the theme-park-style grins plastered on my friend's and his two kids' faces as he ferries them back and forth to school in their battery-assisted bakfiets.