{"id":50806,"date":"2022-01-26T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=50806"},"modified":"2024-07-11T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:02:16","slug":"we-dont-just-need-electric-cars-we-need-fewer-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/we-dont-just-need-electric-cars-we-need-fewer-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t just need electric cars, we need fewer cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ever since the first production car rolled off the assembly line more than 100 years ago, our love affair with automobiles has grown and grown. In countries like the UK, France, Italy and Germany there are now around&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationmaster.com\/country-info\/stats\/Transport\/Road\/Motor-vehicles-per-1000-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5 vehicles for every 10 people<\/a>. In the USA, Australia and New Zealand, the number is higher still.<\/p>\n\n<p>But, after a century of the automobile playing a central part in our lives, we\u2019re starting to see a shift toward alternative forms of transport. If this trend continues, the car\u2019s domination of global transport could soon come to a spluttering end.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2018\/01\/201ba237-gp01m6y_medium_res.jpg\" alt=\"Cars in Beijing \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Natalie Behring\" class=\"wp-image-13970\"\/><figcaption>A gardener tends to shrubs along Beijing\u2019s third-ring road during a weekday rush hour. Beijing is notorious for its smog and is rapidly earning the distinction of having the highest vehicular pollution in the world. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Natalie Behring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hidden cost of cars<\/h4>\n\n<p>With the cost of electric vehicles&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/feb\/25\/electric-cars-will-be-cheaper-than-conventional-vehicles-by-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">set to plummet<\/a>&nbsp;over the next decade, many car firms now admit that the future is an electric one. But will this be enough? Shouldn\u2019t we also be asking ourselves if we need so many cars in the first place?<\/p>\n\n<p>If we could flick a switch and turn every fossil fuelled car into an electric one, lungs across the planet would breathe a sigh of relief as toxic emissions dropped (as long as the electricity used was from clean energy sources).<\/p>\n\n<p>But this wouldn\u2019t address the problem of just how wasteful a car dominated transport system is.<\/p>\n\n<p>In 2016, more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/262747\/worldwide-automobile-production-since-2000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">72 million new cars<\/a>&nbsp;hit the road. Manufacturing such a giant quantity of vehicles year on year uses vast quantities of steel, aluminium, copper, glass, rubber, and other raw materials.<\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s a great environmental cost, considering the majority of these vehicles&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reinventingparking.org\/2013\/02\/cars-are-parked-95-of-time-lets-check.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sit idle 95% of the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Parked cars take up a vast amount of space, too. In urban areas in Los Angeles county, an estimated&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01944363.2015.1092879?journalCode=rjpa20\">14% of land<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 200 square miles \u2013 is dedicated to parking.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Changing attitudes<\/h4>\n\n<p>Though progress is often slow, city planners and politicians are gradually waking up to the fact that when cities offer safe and affordable alternatives to cars, we start to travel differently.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2018\/01\/203afcce-gp0stqaqb_medium_res.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclists on Street in Copenhagen \u00a9 Chris Grodotzki \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-13971\"\/><figcaption>Cyclists cycling on street in Copenhagen. \u00a9 Chris Grodotzki \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>More and more young people are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/men\/thinking-man\/11743371\/Why-young-men-have-fallen-out-of-love-with-cars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">choosing bicycles, buses and trains<\/a>&nbsp;over owning a car out of the sheer cost. In Berlin, it\u2019s public transport, not cars, which is the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2018\/jan\/16\/adidas-eqt-trainers-transport-tickets-berlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coolest way of getting around<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>In Copenhagen, a city that has a long held reputation for being bike-friendly, a whopping&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cycling-embassy.dk\/2017\/07\/04\/copenhagen-city-cyclists-facts-figures-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">62% of people<\/a>&nbsp;choose to cycle their commute.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the French city of Lyon, the number of cars entering the city has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingindustry.news\/five-key-cities-where-cycling-is-taking-modal-share-from-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fallen by 20%<\/a>&nbsp;compared to just a decade ago. As the city\u2019s network of bike hire stations continues to grow, town planners are hoping for a further 20% decline.<\/p>\n\n<p>In London, where cycle super-highways are becoming popular, the share of journeys made by car has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citymetric.com\/transport\/driving-london-has-been-falling-1990-has-city-passed-peak-car-1285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fallen by a quarter since 1990<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Car free days are rising in popularity in many of the world\u2019s largest cities, giving people a taste of what it\u2019s like to live with less noise, traffic and pollution. Bogota was one of the first cities to introduce a car free day, and it\u2019s now become so popular that it\u2019s been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/bikes\/bogota-changes-car-free-day-car-free-week.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extended to a full week<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our vision<\/h4>\n\n<p>Though the rise of electric cars should be celebrated, a truly sustainable transport system isn\u2019t just about ditching fossil fuel vehicles.<\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s about building more cycle lanes, and supporting schemes to get people on bikes in the first place. It\u2019s about constructing roads which encourage a more diverse range of travel \u2013 cycling, electric scooters and cargo bikes \u2013 instead of so heavily favouring cars. It\u2019s about mass transport that runs on clean energy and is affordable and easy for everyone to use. And it\u2019s about all of us \u2013 citizens, politicians, and businesses \u2013 playing a part in making it happen.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Richard Casson is a campaigner for Greenpeace UK<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the first production car rolled off the assembly line more than 100 years ago, our love affair with automobiles has grown and grown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"We don\u2019t just need electric cars, we need fewer cars","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not 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