Less miles covered. People live nearer to work and shops. Government sponsored house swapping. Businesses change location. Bicycles. More locally, community-driven solutions to social living on a 'smaller' scale.surfingslovak said:What do you think could be a viable alternative path forward?
... in fact, whatever people and businesses used to do before everyone could afford their own motorised transport!!
If there are grants for EVs, it would seem to me to make more sense still for Governments to give house-moving grants to people to move to within cycling or walking distance of their work, or for employee-heavy businesses to move nearer residential conurbations.
I'm not anti-technology, or even particularly 'green', and I definitely do not side with those who seem to push us back to a mediaeval agrarian life style. But the power of ICE motorised transport has caused societal fragmentation in to suburbs and commuter towns. If that ICE motorised transport is coming under 'threat of extinction' then maybe the solution is to change the outcomes it created, rather than perpetuate those outcomes by finding a direct substitute for motorised transport!
If GM sold bicycles as 10% of their unit sales, would that satisfy the legislation? And if not, why not? What's the EPA mileage of a pedal bike?