175: Micromobility fires, standards and transport equity with Melinda Hanson
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The Cost of Car Ownership in the US
I think the people very much undervalue what they spend on their car in the US. You can buy a really high quality e-bike for, you know, two and a half months of car payments. And so I think we'll see more and more that people start to realize that that math for car ownership is just making less and less sense. In a place like the US, sometimes people look at me like I'm pretty wacky if they think I'm advocating for everybody to totally sell their car. But what I think we can achieve is get to a place where we have one car households and as many trips as possible on, youknow, two or three wheels"
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