I didn't watch the whole thing, but did she mention electric bikes? IMO, Electric cars, or cars in general, are just fine. We just did a family road-trip around Denmark with our Ioniq 5 and it's absolutely perfect for that. The thing is, we should be renting them when we need them, and use bikes more the rest of the time. Electric bikes are quickly becoming a viable alternative to cars in many bike-friendly cities, and we're seeing an explosion in the choices of electric cargo bikes.
GetAround is making renting cars more viable too. We do actually have a second car now, but I've been renting the old one out until we're ready to sell it and until we're sure we can handle two kids in kindergarten without it. It's been way more popular than I anticipated.
> We don't necessarily need simpler cars, we need better electric bikes. Or electric motorbikes/scooters.
Or golf carts. Just like so many creatures in nature evolve into crabs, personal transport appears to evolve into golf carts. The Japanese have kei cars, which are just heavy golf carts and there exist cargo bikes, which are just underpowered, three-wheeled golf carts.
Not Just Bikes has an excellent new video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA
I rode my electric bike to work today in fact. Instead of our EV, ironically. But our family uses only one car at least.
We don't necessarily need simpler cars, we need better electric bikes. Or electric motorbikes/scooters. And better public transportation.
Something like this would be a nice option for some usecases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPyIwY2hJ_A
GetAround is making renting cars more viable too. We do actually have a second car now, but I've been renting the old one out until we're ready to sell it and until we're sure we can handle two kids in kindergarten without it. It's been way more popular than I anticipated.