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Not practical to have zero cars. Residential areas aren’t set up for it. How you going to get your shopping in with 2 kids when it’s pissing of rain like it is 70% of the time here in Scotland.
Priority should be public transport with cheap public autonomous taxis that can drive 24/7 and unclutter the streets.
I have an electric car,but I also have an ebike(recently got it, maybe a month ago). I generally try to do small shopping trips on the bike,which is a lot of my shopping atm, but sometimes I need to transport stuff that just couldn't fit (cat litter, 40lb bird seed, stuff like that). I also have a more than 40 mile trek for work, so that isn't feasible on the bike. While I do get to work from home a lot, every other week I need to be in office for 3 days.
Having the electric is at least better for that, and my electric wasn't a luxury car like the OP states, it's a 2015 leaf that's down to 20% or so when I get to work, plus there aren't a lot of compatible fast chargers around for it. Even slower j1772 types seem to be not working half the time... I dislike the direction of bigger SUV and crossover eCars that seem to be the trend nowadays and I don't want to go back to ICE, but feeling some limits.