Jeez, champ, that's pretty ground breaking critical thinking, you better get on the horn with Volker Wissing immediately and tell him "most of my friends in Europe, haven't even bothered owning a car at all, neither petrol nor EV"!
What I wrote was more in response to your comment of "with a full on ICE ban, anyone not middleclass and up won't be able to afford private mobility" - that's not as much of a priority for Europeans as it is for us or Americans.
The impact of a ban wouldn't be a complete collapse of everything because public transport would still function and people would get where they need to go. It was an off-hand remark, so I didn't really think it needed an entire essay, but if you want some critical thinking, then here you go.
I understand about the negative impacts of job losses and stuff, but there comes a point where you actually have to bite the bullet and do something. For instance, all the cotton farmers in the American South who had built their livelihoods on the availability of slave labour. There was no easy replacement available, robots hadn't been invented and even today I don't think they'd be capable of picking cotton. But slavery had to be stopped, and they'd need to figure out new plans.
In my mind, "what about people's jobs" isn't a very good argument on this point. To me it comes down to "should we continue using ICE vehicles at all?" (i.e. whatever the whole climate-change or environment question is). If the answer is no, then we've got to bite the bullet and do it. If you want to argue on the other side you've got to say that either the proposed intervention is unnecessary because the stated assumption is wrong (i.e. climate change isn't real) or would be ineffective (something like ICE vehicles being such a small percentage of emissions that a ban would accomplish nothing). "people's jobs" isn't helpful because if those jobs are causing problems then they need to be shed.
You can disagree with me if you want, but don't accuse me of not thinking.
(FWIW, I tend to be more anti-car in my views, I think it's much better to structure the economy and infrastructure to let people prefer public transport. People can own and drive cars if they want to, but then they do it because they enjoy it and can afford it, not because they need to in order to achieve basic functionality. I'd totally ditch my car if I could take the train to work or the bus to the shops.)
