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Carbon neutral.

People tend to make problems more complicated than they need to be. Like this problem of carbon emissions, I get refitting combustion engine cars & making them hybrids or fully electric but fuel cell technology looks dangerous & overly complicated to be economically viable. I spend some of my time researching this technology & how it works so below is how I'd do things.

• Phase out combustion engine vehicles while building infrastructure for electric vehicles: I am convinced that electric vehicles are better than combustion engine vehicles in too many ways to simply just continue with the combustion engine status quo. So in parking places, we could put one or two charging docks that you'd pay to park in & charge your vehicle. We could simply stop importing or making combustion engine vehicles in two years & replace them with fleets of electric vehicles. We could phase out combustion engine infrastructure completely in six years time & maybe revamp some petrol stations into electric vehicle charging stations.

• Standardise the charging port of all electric vehicles: Bus, trucks, cars & motorcycles must all have the same charging cable & charging port. Like how most cellphones now have the same micro USB charging port, it should be the same for E. V.s to improve compatibility.

• Phase out lithium ion for sodium ion batteries: Sodium is more abundant less combustible & much more easily recycleable than sodium ion batteries.

• Solar panels on heavier vehicles to decrease battery size: We all know how heavy E. V. batteries can be & much more so on industrial vehicles. This can damage road infrastructure in a big way. So trucks, trains, buses get detachable & interchangeable solar panels or *perovskites, this will reduce the need for a bigger & heavier battery. Interchangeable solar panels to be replaceable in the case of damage. Avoiding putting solar panels on the front or sides of E. V.s so they could perhaps be reused should the car be too damaged in an accident to be repaired.

• Prioritise & revamp rail: There are solar powered trains today, this could decrease the need for other rail infrastructure. Again, these panels could be interchangeable with bus & rail electric vehicle solar panels. Industrial & passenger rail is proven to be cheaper & more efficient than trucks & long-distance buses.

• Considering wind & solar power potential; we could place solar panels & vertical-axis wind turbines strategically & sodium ion battery packs as storage across the land. Vertical-axis wind turbines use less space & are more efficient than horizontal-axis wind turbines. This could generate power across the land without need for dangerous, toxic coal & nuclear.

*Perovskites are said to be light photovoltaic film that's thinner & more efficient than typical solar panels.

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