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When 95% people live in flats, the density is high enough for public transport and walking to be more efficient than cars for most usages... I'm also from Slovakia, and I can clearly see here that gas cars being cheap led to public transport, biking and walking being deprioritized outside big cities... When I was a kid my family didn't have a car, it was in a town with ~40k people, we biked or walked everywhere.., 15 years later there's 3 times as much cars in that town even though its population meanwhile dropped to 35k...

Gas cars being cheap is also the reason why no-one buys electric cars here, which in turn is the reason why few charging stations exist as there's not enough demand... Also there's a huge market for used cars in Slovakia which means this won't really be that huge of a problem by 2035 as this goal is only about new cars...

It's really not that hard to build charging stations.., most public lightning lamps can accomodate a charging station for one or two cars (there are some like this in Bratislava already).., And I'm pretty sure they will be covered by some EU funding scheme sooner or later, so businesses will probably even have an incentive to build some so that they can charge for their usage...



What a perfect example. On my street with 80 apartments are 2 street lamps.




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