Trading One Metal Box for Another

The Future.....Of the Automobile

So, can the switch to electric vehicles save the world?  Does it make sense to trade one form of single person transit for another?  The resources to support the automobile, no matter how it is powered, could be better used to develop and implement a new models for transportation.  In fact, many countries have already done much of that work.  

…we have to stop talking about how electric cars will save us; it takes too much stuff to make them all, puts out too much upfront carbon, and nobody is going to make enough of them fast enough. All that copper and lithium and nickel and aluminum and steel has to come from somewhere. We have to look at getting people out of cars, at making it easier for people to use e-bikes and cargo bikes, transit and feet.