The prompt for this week's audio was David Zipper's recent Vox article, titled "Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts."
Electric cars as the salient solution to climate change does a disservice to another brand of innovation: simplicity that works. Or, as we call it, biking, walking, public transit, and the like.
We discuss:
- David Zipper's article on Norway's past decade of heavily incentivizing electric vehicle ownership.
- Why EVs cannot be the bulk of the solution to our cities' climate challenges.
- The geometry and economics of cities and their space.
- The common disconnect between Federal goals and cities' best interests, and how funding for one can severely undermine the other.
- Eisenhower's Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, and the risks of blanketed national policy and subsidy.
- Bifurcation and classism.
- Cautionary learnings for American planners and politicians.
- What American's can do to evangelize simple innovation that works.
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