Are electric cars on a road to nowhere? | Letters

Readers respond to George Monbiot's warning that electric vehicles are not the solution to the UK's pollution and transport problems

George Monbiot's article (Electric cars won't solve our pollution problems - Britain needs a total transport rethink, 23 September) is spot on. As a retired architect and urban designer, I was particularly taken by the last section where Monbiot states: Fundamentally this is not a vehicle problem but an urban design problem."

His account of the 15-minute city" being carried out by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is the way all big cities should go. By re-localising and bringing together all the workers and residents in each neighbourhood, with their own commons at the centre and weekly assembly meetings practising participatory democracy, big steps can be taken towards implementing the kind of circular economics, with zero waste, that the world so urgently needs.