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Can't rule out automated manipulation and bots on any social media site these days.

Why does it matter whether you think someone "needs" a pickup or not?

Align their crash ratings and NCAP values with every other car and the problem will take care of itself.

Personally I have the huge white vans because they reduce visibility when driving as well as while parked. I live in a big city and its difficult to drive when there's a wall parked at every other intersection.

It is amazing how much concern trolling there is about EVs on a site like this.

The tires that are "disposed of" in the third world and then burnt?

Exactly. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

> US-style pickups exist mostly because of weird tax and emissions rules which should be harmonized with cars.

This is the truth and is basically protectionism for the Big 3 American automakers. Don't look for this to be fixed anytime soon. The system is working as intended.

Europe has plenty of massive white vans.

I recently bought an EV and love it. I barely ever touch the brakes and the wheels stay clean, unlike my old BMW where the front wheels turned gray from brake dust very quickly.

Some comments here are looking for a 100% perfect solution, which doesn't exist. Transportation is polluting. Sorry but even public transportation is polluting, even if it is more efficient when its above a certain utilization. Where I live, some buses are EV and it is a joy to ride them compared to diesel ones.

With an EV there is less local pollution, less noise pollution, more dynamic response when needed and no need for wasteful oil "changes" where the old, dirty, useless oil doesn't just magically disappear.

Europe is a big continent. Even within one city you can have neighborhoods with more aggro drivers than others. If there is a protected bike path I don't have problems taking it.

The British Raj never died, the babus just took it over and sat down in the same chairs and kept the institutions running the same way.

You only have to see the anti-Musk astroturfing on reddit to see how easily people are manipulated. The same has been happening against Modi, regardless of his merits.

Everyone wants something for nothing.

This is true in all countries.

What you said doesn't refute the point.

India has low tax compliance, so people who pay taxes (middle-class, salary jobs, no way to hide income or wealth) shoulder an unfair part of the overall tax burden. This is obviously being worked on by the government, but it remains true.

Once you add up the expenditures from double-spending (for example private health insurance, private retirement saving, private school, toll roads) the tax burden is well above what you would pay in an EU country.

I love bikes but I value my health so I keep my exercise to places where I won't be crushed to death by rogue road users.