I am using public transport for everything, urban, suburban, cross country. Trains, busses, trams, subways, sometimes even cable cars. There is a public solution for everything, in my opinion. Although, the more urban and the higher the population density the easier.

Edit: I am not sure if I am just missing your point. Are you just talking about electric busses in an urban enviroment?

I am not advocating for absolutely no cars, but it shouldn’t be the default to own one. Neither should it be a necessity in order to participate in society. Car sharing is of course a good solution for the last kilometer.

Maybe you can tell that to the Swiss, or the Austrians… Some of the best train connections, in the middle of the Alps.

I don’t think there is really a geography where trains are not feasible. I also don’t think (charging) infrastructure would be a problem because public transport should be highly predictable. And saying that 3 ton vehicles that are mostly used less than an hour per day are not a waste of resources is disingenious. I know a lot of people can’t imagine a life without cars, I couldn’t at some point, but it is possible and it is even better.

We will not get rid of car centricity with electric car centricity. Cars are to resource intense to be part of a sustainable world. People should hear the truth from time to time…

Everywhere where human rights are upheld and democracy is valued is fine. But, I think Europe should have those industries. So, I try to buy european.

Still a waste of resources. Public transport for the win!

“At least 5 years”

You can already use Ubuntu touch if the Volla OS is no longer serviced. I am critical on a very high level, but I really hate e-waste through software obsolescence.

At the moment, this would be the frontrunner. But, it has been on the market for ~a year and they only guarantee “at least 5 years” of software updates. So for the price and with sustainability in mind this seems a very short time. I have to contact them for more information…

I haven’t found any recent one. They had them until 2021 if I am not mistaken…

Special entry for murena, they are not producing anything but they sell degoogeled stuff from european companys (Fairphone, Shiftphone and Volla). Although, this does not make a whole lot of sense for Volla because they already have two google free operating systems (one based on android).