[abootstrapper]

I’m in the “fewer cars camp.” But I entirely disagree with your dismissal of car culture. Cars aren’t just necessary in American culture due to our car centric infrastructure, we have car clubs, car enthusiasts, and hobbiest. People race them for fun. There are art cars, and cars used as status symbols. Cars take lead rolls in our films, art, and music. Car culture is alive, well, obvious, and huge. If you want cleaner electric cars, you gotta build them with respect to the culture. Tesla is doing a good job of that. Just look at the Cyber truck. It’s a big ass overpowered truck, just how truck owners like their trucks.

*Added: I can imagine a conversation in my old home town of a Cyber truck owner saying, “yeah my truck is quite, but the glass is bulletproof!”

[sto_hristo]

Anything that has some significance to it, chances are that it has some kind of fan club behind it, it's probably turned into sport, art things are made for it, statuses are based on it. But it's an after effect of said thing, not a precursor to it.

If you ban for ex. cars from all those examples you gave, guess what - people will still drive them, because cars are not enabled by all those things you listed, it's the other way around.

For electric cars to take over, all it takes is a battery that can be charged as fast and as reliably as a gas tank. Nothing else. It will take over like a hurricane.