Monday, October 18, 2021

Is it time to design for neighbourhood electric vehicles instead?

 "Half of the work of urban design is deciding where to store cars."


"When designing parking spaces, planners have a size of vehicle in mind—a design vehicle scaled for highway and freeway travel. Yet almost half of all car trips in the United States are for trips under 3 miles,1 which shouldn’t require getting on a highway or freeway. In an era of growing climate threats, we need to rethink what kind of vehicle is necessary for running local trips. It’s time to seriously consider a class of vehicles called neighborhood electric vehicles, or NEVs."

from:

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2021/10/13/rightsizing-automobile-local-mobility