[rainsford]

I feel like the use-case identified for ultra-light cars in this article is the worst argument for cars of any size. There are lots of cases where a small urban electric vehicle could be all you need, but a lot of those cases are also (or better!) covered by public transit or biking or something similar. In cases where you actually need a car, you're probably better off with a slightly larger vehicle. For a lot of the downsides of cars, like traffic, parking, etc, making cars smaller doesn't solve the problems nearly as well as getting them off the road entirely.

To put it another way, ultra tiny EVs you use for every trip seem like a much worse future than a future where you have a larger EV you don't have to use as often because there are good alternatives to driving that cover a lot of your needs.