A few days ago I thought of the possibility of legions of electric vehicles zooming around our cities. Then I came to realize that recharging the battery is problematic. If the passenger lives in a dwelling with their own garage then an electrical outlet is easy to access.
Dwellers of apartments will find it challenging to find an outlet and installing new outlets in older buildings posses additional challenges.
Of course people will point to Better Place ’s solution to electric vehicle as a way to solve this dilemma. Unfortunately, I do believe that building enough batteries for all the cars will be limited by the rare and precious metals that are being used in all forms of batteries.
I am a firm believer that using mass transit to move around the urban landscape is the ideal solution. Increasing the density and incorporating commercial services in the residential area are some of solutions to weeding out our dependence on cars.
I don’t intend on completely gutting the car, but hopefully we only need for traveling into Canada’s natural landscape.
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