The population threshold the US Census Bureau uses for that 80% figure is 5,000 inhabitants. FIVE THOUSAND. 😂😂 instead of being a reductive google enjoyer maybe dig deeper and do a little better.

We’re explicitly talking about areas that can be adequately served by public transportation.

A more realistic statistic is that ≈59 million people live in the 100 largest American cities. So that leaves a couple hundred million adults who are firmly out of range of even well developed public transportation. Darn!

The numbers really don’t matter and if you look into how metropolitan areas are delineated you’ll see many rural communities get packaged with large cities more than an hours drive away, communities that are objectively rural. It’s bullshit if you dig deeper.

None of what you replied with even pertains to what the original contention. Which was EV inadequacies vs ICE vehicles. Internal combustion vehicles work better than EVs especially outside of metropolitan areas. EVs are slow to charge, their ranges are inferior to ICE vehicles, their batteries degrade much faster than ICE motors and EVs struggle in inclement weather. These are the facts as of right now.

The US (and many other places) NEED reliable personal transportation and work vehicles to function. Almost all real work vehicles are diesel. All the shit this country imports is shipped across oceans in diesel ships and unloaded into diesel semi-trucks. ALL excavators, bull dozers and dump trucks are diesel. Trains, diesel. Farm equipment, ICE. Most private vehicles still are ICE too. There is a reason why - they work much better and are more cost effective.

If you took away the motor vehicle (as you suggested) the entire global economy would collapse in matter of days. It’s such an absurd and delusional suggestion I wasn’t sure if you were kidding at first.

Internal combustion has been a phenomenon force multiplier for humans and made us orders of magnitude more productive since its invention. The idea of ridding ourselves of these amazing tools is regressive and completely delusional. All you city kitties would be starving in squalid metropolitan cesspools if it wasn’t for the internal combustion engine and the rural folk who use them to do the actual work to feed and house the world - wake the fuck up.