In their current guise they are a sticking plaster.

Whilst we await a 'Mini Cooper' moment of a small, economically-priced EV that can navigate the dense cities of Eurasia and not take up 1.5 parking slots we need mass transit to electrify and remove more cars from the roads.

The whole idea of urban design and planning needs to be rethought to decentralise the geography of work places and make the morning commute as commonplace as riding a horse to work.