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Yes.
The question isn't whether or not EVs will be the future - they will.
The question is who will lead the market in them, and the Republicans are effectively working to ensure that it will not be the US - it'll be China.
Pretty sure the future isn't every person carrying around multiple tons of steel with them every time they need some milk. The push isn't to full sized electric cars, it's to electric bikes and micro cars. But yes, China is doing both and the US auto Industry will collapse because it doesn't care that people don't want to drive something bigger than a tank.
It's always so mind boggling how (most of) US cities are designed just for cars. And if you are used to that, I get its hard to even imagine the alternative. I like the bike centric cities in Europe, or the amazing public transport in places like Japan or Korea.
It was a conscious decision. After the Second World War, the US needed somewhere to shift all of the manufacturing that had been built for the war effort. So cities were deliberately designed to keep houses away from jobs away from shops, so you need a car to get around, inducing a market for the personal car that never should have existed. People forget that before the car, there were cities across America that were walkable and had streetcars. The current state of affairs was never preordained. It’s the result of decades of corporate influence over government decision making.
In the case you described it might be autonomous delivery systems. Why leave the house and drive around town when a little delivery drone on wheels can deliver it at the same time?
In functional societies, leaving the house isn't a terrifying or stressful thing. It's actually nice. Shopping in functional countries isn't horrible because you aren't going through space designed around cars to stuff warehouses designed around cars.
Weird way to spell trains.
Trains, metro, trams, and occasionally busses for mass transit. Bikes and microcars for individual transit.
Wait. Isn't it that in US people want to drive tanks? And having couple of tons of steel is prefferable? Like lemmy is such a small part it's opinions are like drop in the ocean - what I understand is that US loves it's big cars.
Yeah, Americans love big cars. They want to feel big and safe in a giant vehicle, and large swaths of the country have enough wide open space to accommodate that. You'll see very different vehicles in cities vs in the countryside.