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> Chargers at work. At the grocery store. At your doctors appointment.

This doesn't work in cities. None of those places have parking lots.

And don't say "chargers on all the curbs" because we can't afford to further entrench car supremacy and make it harder to reallocate space to bus lanes and pedestrians.

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> This doesn't work in cities. None of those places have parking lots.

Put the chargers where the cars are parking. With vanishingly few exceptions, they're all parking somewhere.

I'm all for a less car-centric society, but it's gonna be easier to reach that future if we address climate change a bit on the way.

> Put the chargers where the cars are parking.

That would really be doubling down on the high cost of free parking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking

I'm of the opinion the cost of climate change is likely to exceed the cost of free parking.

Great, so replace all the ICE parking lanes with electric bus rapid transit lanes. It will do much more for climate change than car chargers.

Edit: Should have mentioned the climate change is one of the biggest components of the cost of free parking. Without all the government-mandated parking spaces for the past 60 years, there would be far fewer cars today. It's not too late to reverse that.

Then the power source of for cars needs to be more available than what you're suggesting.

If addressing climate change is the goal, existing vehicles can be converted over to methanol far more cheaply than buying a whole new vehicle. Methanol can be made carbon neutrally, or carbon negatively, and will power the next generation of cargo ships.

>This doesn't work in cities. None of those places have parking lots.

Where so they park? Put chargers there, then.

Your car will drop you off at work and drive itself to the nearest parking lot/charger.

It will also fly so no need for roads anymore, just green fields everywhere.

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