Make Room for Minicars, the Electric Vehicles Cities Need

The invasion should be welcomed. The reduced size and efficient charging of minicars could address two of the most pressing transportation challenges in the US: reducing road deaths and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Available in a motley assortment of shapes and sizes, these miniature mobility devices could help untether the United States from its destructive, expensive and entrenched addiction to automobiles.

Beyond their benefits to road safety, climate and mobility access, minicars offer one other potential upside, something harder to quantify but exciting nonetheless: They might make people friendlier.

David Zipper