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A Traffic Jam with No Emissions is Still a Traffic Jam
Henry Ford’s great-grandson, Bill Ford, presents an excellent case for a new transportation model beyond the zero-emission automobile.
“Today there are about 800 million cars on the road worldwide. But with more people and greater prosperity worldwide, that number is going to grow to between two and four billion cars by mid century. And this is going to create the kind of global gridlock the world has never seen before…
Today, the average driver in Beijing has a five hour commute. Last summer there was a 100 mile traffic jam that took 11 days to clear in China…
The mobility model that we have today simply won’t work tomorrow. Frankly, four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.”
