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Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says
(arstechnica.com)
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Nothing beats covinience. If it's easy, people will pay up. That means you are right, that if the communal traffic improves as you say, it would get alot more people using it.
But unfortunately, cars are just so, so convinient, it's almost impossible to beat, if you don't straight up outlaw them.