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10 km is pretty far. Walking 1km isn't bad, but 3 is a decent chunk of time and energy. 10 is a pain in the ass by bus and a relatively quick trip by light rail assuming you didn't have to walk that far to the station.
Like, I'm not contesting that a lot of drivers should walk for errands more, or that evs encourage car focusing, but that metric fails to account for the fact that few people will walk 2 hours one way for an errand.
That's "up to 10km", not that every trip is 10km.
In that context, it's going to be easier/faster to bike or take an e-scooter to your destination.
If it's under 2km, then walking really shouldn't be a problem.
And if public transportation is available for medium distance trips, that should be first (as it is in cities/countries that are not built around car-dependency).
Look at the bigger picture. We should be walking a minimum 10,000 steps a day (something like 8,000 to 12,000, realistically). That's 8km a day as a bare minimum for minimum basic health.
Driving costs more time, because you now have to allocate time to drive + time to get those steps in. Why not walk that 2km errand instead?
At those short distances, we aren't talking about massive differences in time to destination. And I think anyone can use the mental health benefits of movement, too.