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Yes, its funny people think its about tackling climate change and encouraging people to use petrol/diesel alternatives. When in reality there is none present and people still have to commute everyday to work in petrol/diesel vehicles.

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Before asking middle class people to use public transport instead of motorcycle, you have to actually provide good public transport.

Now... my granddad was a miner after the second world war, and he commuted roughly 20 km (one way) every day by bicycle and even rode from the Ruhr region in Germany to Austria on it(no fancy mountainbike or roadbike, just an old "Vaterland")...

Great anecdote. How do you travel to places? I’m guessing the answer is either a fossil-fuel vehicle, or an expensive electric vehicle.

Mostly by (expensive) bike or - if i have stuff or more bodies than my own to transport - with a shared family car.

Yeah but when petrol taxes are high, people buy more efficient cars. Super obvious if you look at a street in France versus in the United States, where so many poor people have 20mpg cars.

Indian poor people have to choose between food and Medicine.

I assure you they don't own cars with low mileage.

We've gone down in rankings for Hunger for Christ's sake. There is actual penury here.

Even German poor people can’t afford a nice efficient car. All they can get is a 2000 euros beater from the early 2000s.

This electric vehicle/expensive fuel trend will fuck poor people in every country.

I really really wanted to buy a 2 wheeler EV 3yrs ago. But the only available option was Okinawa bike that went barely 50km in one charge. I now have a 3yr old petrol 2 wheeler that I need to get rid of until I have some sensible options in EVs. Ola, simple energy won't make a delivery in a fewmonths and they're over booked as hell. And current vehicles have too short range (less than 80km actual)

Currently the only affordable 4wheeler ev in India is Nexon EV at 150k INR. MG has an ev at 250k INR and Hundai too at 250K INR

Prices need to come down. Charging stations need to be set up + batteries should last for a long time

The numbers are wrong. 150k is 1.5 Lakhs. Nexon is 15 Lakhs. So it should be 1.5 million INR.

Thank you.

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