This. EVs are still cars. They still move ten times more mass than what is actually required to get Mr Boomer to his job and back. They're still extremely inefficient transport solutions for anything but vacations. They still cause trafic congestion just as bad as old cars do.

> hydrogen/methanol fuel for those few cases a car is absolutely needed.

Is this because you actively want cars to be less efficient/more expensive/more cumborsome to use and maintain?

Which is a valid viewpoint, but your comment could be read as suggesting that this is somehow greener or cheaper tor simpler than BEVs, which it isn't.

For example, I'm assuming that the "better public transport" you envision is electric, and battery electric wherever that makes sense (which is in quite a lot of places, even trams with overhead lines in busy cities can benefit from batteries).

I just meant they're refillable and fuel stations historically did fine without public funding. Conversion is pretty easy, if I'm not mistaken cars in Brazil are already prepared for methanol. Toyota recently made a hydrogen kit for AE86 that's almost like an LPG kit. A few years down the line and it'll just work. I'm not saying that there's no place for electric, I just don't want cars in cities. Whatever Netherlands are doing, I want that instead of financing and maintaining a charger network.