Where am I not accepting that other parts of the world are different? I started this whole debate with something along the lines of "if you live in a different situation then this doesn't apply to you" so if it doesn't apply to you why are you even debating? Are you seriously saying that suburbs are exclusive to the USA? While I'm not as worldly as some, I have traveled to much of the two Western provinces of Canada, and I've been to the UK and in both places I saw a very similar situation to home, mostly houses with driveways and/or garages. The UK was the most different as a large number of the houses were duplexes and of course much smaller than the houses I'm used to but houses none the less with private parking.
After all this, I'm still seeing the argument "Well it doesn't work for my little corner of the world therefore it won't work for anybody" and when I point out that there are *millions* of people who live in situations where it will work and in fact does work I get fingers in the ears "La La La La La!!!!" and restating some previous tired argument or trying to turn this into some one country vs another country debate. Stop trying to claim that I'm saying EVs will work well for everybody or that every other country is just like the USA, or that the USA is superior to other countries because I've said none of this. These are counter-arguments invented in the heads of the naysayers.
Dear James_S,
please, I already apologized to all Americans (except donald duck trumpet, man has to draw line somewhere :-)) if I hurt anybody's feelings.
I didn't address it to you or anybody personally..
On the other side if you read rest of my messages you would know I'm NOT AGAINST EVs.
Quite the opposite, I'm very unhappy and frustrated that THEY ARE NOT REALITY at this moment, and that fact holds for many places in EU.
I want EV's, and if anybody wants that to become reality, we need to say the truth and say how it is.
So we can start fixing things, to get there one day...
EU is mostly EV not ready and there is a lot of work ahead us.. That is not a naysaying, that is a start of work specification.
Saying that reality check is bullshit, and that all is rosy, and that even few million EVs are big deal... It's very idealistic and noble, but..
I say few milion EV's are statistical anomaly on EU level... Not mainstream, and not even close to some solution...
30-40 % of non IC vehicles would make some difference.
10% of EVs is nothing, it doesn't fix nothing and save nobody. If they would start making light, low horsepower IC (800 kg, 60 kW) with fuel efficient engines, that would halve emissions and would be equivalent to 50% of EV market penetration... All if people would only want to change habits and give up on 1.5 t 200HP vehicles.... And you wouldn't have to change anything except people's habits and expectations..
So I agree with you we need to give our best and shouldn't listen to naysayers...
Best regards,
Sinisa