Chasing the Horizon: What Electric Cars Teach My Generation | William Fan | TEDxBIBA Youth

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In this talk, I share what I noticed as an 8th grader: electric cars are already here, but the future still feels far away. Adults once said electric cars would make roads quiet, air clean, and gasoline cars disappear. Now I see them in parking lots and charging outside stores. Yet every solution brings new questions. Where does the electricity come from? What about batteries and rare materials? Using Tesla and SpaceX as examples, I show that progress is not one big win. It is many small steps, mistakes, and lessons. They show that technology alone cannot save us. People can. My message is simple: the future is not a place we arrive at. It is a path we keep walking. Electric cars remind us to ask not “Did we reach the future?” but “What kind of future are we choosing?” We must keep moving forward. The future is a direction William Fan is a 14-year-old student at BIBA who believes that the most important lessons aren't found in textbooks, but in the heat of competition. For William, rea

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