> International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) argues that EVs are the quickest means to decarbonize motorized transport. However, EVs are not by thems

> International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) argues that EVs are the quickest means to decarbonize motorized transport. However, EVs are not by themselves in any way going to achieve the goal of net zero by 2050. Yep. Technically correct, but an example of shooting for the wrong goal, and failing entirely. The goal is not making our motorized transport system low carbon. The goal is limiting the damage of climate change and keeping a lid on temperature rises. If we constrain our solution set to maintaining the same sort of motorized transport system we will fail. I would like to hope that software engineers on this site reading this would recognize such a problem. It is like when, fundamentally, the design of a program from the get go was wrong from the first foot forward and as a result it's simply too slow. No amount of fiddling around the edges, hacks and minor fixes will result in an adequate improvement. Only a new design is a real fix. Thankfully in many ways it's actually easier to fix cities than to fix a major software project. For one thing we at least know the solutions, and they're easily achievable given political will and with not a great deal of money. (not easily around on a software project!) Most of the issues come more from political restriction than anything else, and so much can be done by simply letting people do things that they're currently banned from doing (ie. let people build more housing). Couple that with some relatively affordable bike lanes and rapid bus lanes, and one can achieve remarkable improvements with relatively little capital expenditure and effort. > Even a few US cities it might be livable without a car. Musing that better things are maybe possible in "a few" US cities is dramatically low ambition and out of touch. Consider that 45% of Vancouver's West End commutes to work by walking. That's a neighbourhood of 45,000 in a major NA city. There's absolutely nothing going on remarkably here that accounts for this excepting the simple fact that it's a bunch of 1960s era residential apartments in a pleasant tree lined area within a 20 minute walking distance of Vancouver's Downtown. That's it. I'm pretty sure this concept is quite replicable in cities across America.