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Everyone wants a green future as long as it's manufacturer in Africa or Asia

Lol I don't think any environmental group would argument that. More like there will be no green future with personal vehicles, electric or not.

Instead of trying to achieve a perfect ideal you should first find a solution that can get everyone on board. Replacing ICEs with EVs is just one step of many but it's the most agreeable solution over the short term. It's already difficult enough to get people to care about the environment at all.

I think you are straw-manning environmental groups here. It seems reasonable to have personal vehicles without climate change or other environmental damage.

> It seems reasonable to have personal vehicles without climate change or other environmental damage.

If you sell it like that sure...

afaik no one has found the solution to that equation, and lithium powered 2 tonnes metal cages transporting 1.4 person (on average) doesn't seem like a good fit to solve it. Sounds like a very inefficient way to do it actually.

It's much more complex than "electric -> green -> good"

The problem is that there are groups that, given ~A => B, would argue both against A and against B.

I'll be honest. Nobody cares about Africa (or South America). Everyone only cares about the starving children there. So we send them food and clothes to clear our conscience. Problem solved.

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