Electric cars are the consensus hotness because they sell to an existing paradigm. The existing automakers can swap a few parts bins and still continue to oper

Electric cars are the consensus hotness because they sell to an existing paradigm. The existing automakers can swap a few parts bins and still continue to operate. The real-estate industrial complex can continue to carve off suburbs to the horizon. I feel like we could do better if we had a more top-down planned economy; we could build new city sectors around an economic engine, and ensure that housing and transit dovetail with it, rather than hoping the market haphazardly allocates stuff right.