[constantcrying]

Germany currently has the highest energy prices in the world. It seems seriously insane to suggest banning IC cars before you have a concrete plan to have any kind of sufficient energy supply. How do you cope with tens of millions of EVs charging every night?

Also, if there is no enormous breakthrough in the next decade in battery technology, car ownership will become a luxury for the rich.

(I use public transport daily, by the way. And it is absolutely disgusting, overfilled and obnoxious. Absolutely hate it.)

[Tanoc]

The eventual plan as was announced was that power consumption would reduce once a majority of vehicles were EVs, since the EVs could charge at night during minimal demand and discharge to the grid during the day at peak demand. There's a lot of ignoring possible (and likely) catastrophes with that plan, and Germany found out how flimsy it really is when Russia invaded Ukraine and made economically viable low sulfur coal and natural gas much scarcer.

[throwaway2214]

or fix the cities? wfh, better public transport, incentivize local business, e-bikes, etc

individual cars are not going to solve anything, ev or ic or whatever