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If you mean future as in save the environment, then I disagree. Individual transport as a mainstream mean of transportation is the problem. What we need to save ourselves is to replace 95% of cars with public transports and bicycles, and then the 5% remaining can be EVs if you want. The reality of EVs is they shift the carbon footprint from driving to manufacturing, and the emission from local to the power plants (depending on the production means where you live), but the total reduction is not nearly enough.
Even if EV's did reduce the world's carbon footprint, it still would not have that big an effect overall
One step at a time, I guess.
I know but even if everybody begins to approach it with common sense rather than political posturing, we are probably going to run out of time. I'm in my 60s and don't have any kids or grandkids but I still feel pretty badly for future generations.
But also get real that you aren't going to cut fuel consumption if you continue to create a system that regularly sees 4 seater 3 ton machines, which require paved roads, used to move a single person around. That society isn't making it to the future. it can change or go extinct.