Electric vehicles won't solve the suburbs' transport woes

By Jago Dodson, Griffith University
Updated February 26 2013 - 4:08pm, first published 3:25pm
A car being charged at a solar station in Melbourne.
A car being charged at a solar station in Melbourne.

Electric vehicles have been touted as the dream technology to solve our suburban transport challenges and rescue us from oil dependence and environmental threats. Yet technology use occurs in a social context. Almost no discussion of electric vehicles has addressed the uneven suburban social patterns among which electric vehicles might be adopted.

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