@beeb I don't advocate for replacement of the current fleet with electric, reducing the use of personal cars is a huge thing we have to do, and harder than replacing what we have with electric because people are entitled (
to at least one car for each driver in the family with over 700km range yeeha don't ruin my weekend greenie fuckers). But if a new vehicle has to exist it must be electric, which now can be done.
Nope, lifecycle emissions on ICE cars will always be much higher. Most cars nowadays are in the bin after 10 years, 15 if you really stretch it out and spend heaps keeping it going. If we just stop making ICE now, within 15 years most of it happens just the way it does now with people buying new cars and disposing old ones. Except we can pull batteries out of electic cars and put new ones in pretty easily, and we can re-use the old batteries for stationary power, and we can then recycle a lot of the materials in them when they completely run out.
Whose main family car on here is over 10 years old? We only have one and it is 7, it will be moved on by the time it is 10.
Public transport is the future of getting to and from work, and working from home at least sometimes for every single person that can do it. But e-bikes could play a bigger role if we didn't make them a shit option because of the laws.
Electric bikes need to scrap the 25km/h limit, and we need cycling infrastructure to support them. The limit is holding people back from e-bike commuting. I'm a reasonable cyclist and can sit on 35 on the flat on a good normal bike (obviously working up a sweat) and of course regularly hit over 40 riding down hills on cycle paths. I think I need to do some lobbying on this locally.
We also need to stop bringing our children up thinking they need the fredom of a car as soon as they can drive and it's some kind of rite of passage. A lot are doing it for themselves, realising that cars are bad for the environment, realising they have better things to spend their money on, and still surviving with PT, e-bikes, family and mates giving lifts and Uber as my son does right now. He is actually nearly 23, has no interest in getting a licence, and when he eventually does (which he'll prolly need to do for work this year) he won't get his own car because it's a waste of money to him.