I wish we spent more time as a society thinking about how to reduce dependence on long-distance highway trips, rather than just making cars electric. They’re th

I wish we spent more time as a society thinking about how to reduce dependence on long-distance highway trips, rather than just making cars electric. They’re the vaping of the sustainability movement, which is not worthless, but nowhere near an unalloyed good. Teslas still kill kids. Electrification doesn’t solve the health problems of sedentary commute time. There is huge demand to live in cities, close to jobs; we should be putting more resources towards that goal, reducing the demand on highway electric charging stations along the way.