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Yes, a habitable planet for humanity would be nice, but have you considered the portfolios of a few selfish assholes?
So from 2035 it was supposed to be possible to only sell cars with 100% reduction in CO2 emissions. They want to change it to 90% reduction and still allow to sell plug-in-hybrids which is bullshit because recent analysis of real life usage show that plug-in hybrids run on gas most of the time and are not nearly as efficient as estimated. They should focus on building charging infrastructure instead. German car industry is dying anyway.
Complete switch to electric will not happen until governments make it possible to essentially get one basic electric vehicle for pennies by trading your old ICE vehicle.
Otherwise guess what, the vast majority of people don't have 30.000 to drop on a new buy just because maa environment. Saying that, I am all in for a complete switch when there will be affordable cars that can do at least 700km on a charge.
The ban was only on the sale of new cars, not the existing cars on the road.
The great thing is that it won't matter. EVs are going to become extremely cheaper and more efficient, making them the clear choice over the next couple years.
They're already very cheap as long as you only want two wheels and aren't fussed about having a roof.
Cheaper for the industry to manufacture, certainly. Cheaper for the consumer to purchase, I have my suspicions.
I would love to see a return to smaller cars - sedans even - but the shareholders might not like lower profits per unit, so I'm not sure we're going to see prices plateau let alone decline.
Cheaper for the consumer to purchase, I have my suspicions.
Why would it be cheaper to produce, but more expensive to purchase? Because of bullshit rules that will not be long lived.
this is what pisses me off about every net zero by 2050 or whenever plan, they will do nothing until 2045 and then just give up or kick the can again.
“We didn’t put in any effort until the last minute and now we can’t easily do it. It’s not fair to our shareholders”
If I tried to use that bs as a a reason for being late ate work I wouldn’t have a job there anymore
Or expelled with the same attitude towards rent
Or a presentation or an essay or exercise or utility bills or...
Or what?
These morons lost the EV race to china so they are trying their hardest to keep that oldass tech alive.
Lmao.
"We're losing the race!"
" I know... Run slower!"
keeping the russia and the MIDDLE east economy afloat, because the politicians pockets are in too deep with these 2 countries
I'm really wondering how the west thinks they'll continue to sell this cold war with China.
China: Please buy are better products that we are selling at lower prices.
The West: China is trying to destroy the western world! We must prepare for war!
Everyone with an Internet connection: Uh, yeah, can we get one of those electric cars that cost half as much and is better in every way?
The funny thing is that the answer to the wests failures is literally just to be more like China. Central planning in vital sectors like infrastructure and transportation. Instead we just have a ruling class that wants to burn oil and start wars with countries that aren't attacking us.
We literally just stole an oil ship because we made up a rule about trade that we don't allow between two completely independent countries that never agreed to that rule. It's comical how awful we are.
Like, for some reason Venezuela can't sell oil to Cuba because we said so. That's it. It's literally just because we said so.
The greed and power tripping is a dangerous thing.
Realitätsverlust.
I think this is the difference between opening doors to the future vs closing doors to the past. When China funded EVs and battery research, they opened the door to the future. When the EU and US try to ban gas engines, they are trying to close the door to the past. Guess which one works.
Yeah, EVs will naturally take over the market as they become more desirable/affordable. Meanwhile, if anything, banning ICE cars will make personal cars even more of a luxury.
Why would it be more of a luxury? Fuel and maintenance should be cheaper, and with proper investments the cars should be cheaper as well. A lot of the battery research right now is showing batteries that could last say 1,000,000 miles. If you get decent standards for such, you could have parents getting a new car and moving their old battery into a cheap EV for their teenager. If it had 200,000 miles on it, they can keep moving it to their next vehicle, and next vehicle if they keep wanting to get new features. The average American drives 14,000 miles a year. In theory they can pass that battery down to their teenager as well, but at that point it's probably better to just recycle it or use it as a backup generator for the home.
Making repairable, recyclable, reusable batteries takes one of the largest costs down by a long shot.
Notre; Obviously batteries don't last miles, but for sake of this discussion it made sense to put it this way
But in much of the EU, electricity is expensive.
I had an EV for a while (tons of people have company cars in Belgium) and charging it at a fast charging station costs like 10% more per km than gas. A regular charging station is very slightly cheaper.
Charging at home used to be cheaper, but now energy companies charge a fee for "peak energy usage" that is more than 15 minutes, so if you charge your car at 11kW at home once in a month, you will get an extra fee on your 250€/month energy bill of 50€.
I am interested in that battery research though, because charge-cycle wise, only lithium iron phosphate subsection of EV battery chemistry would last even near that long. Lithium ion only lasts 500 cycles before degrading to 70% and LiPo is only 1000. My ID4 could do 420 km on a charge, assuming a LiPo composition, that is 420k kilometers, which is a quarter of what you say. That said, that is a pretty long lifetime for a car. Especially because all of the sensor systems would break down or be remotely disabled to force you to buy new ones long before then.
I was thinking about the thing in terms of current purchase costs. Right now there's a sizeable gap between prices of ICE cars and EVs in the same vehicle category.
That gap will of course get smaller over time.
Pretty much everything about an EV can be made to last a milloin miles. Electric motors are rodust, they don't wear out like ICE engines. No transmission to wear out. Suspension parts can be replaced. You're pretty much down to rust.
Which is exactly why the ruling capitalist class is trying so hard to not let that happen. Must consume. Line must go up.
It just means the ruling class made investments in things they haven't figured out how to capitalize on quickly yet. Really they should be able to switch quickly and drive the market... But propaganda is shackling them to stupidity.
There are very few rich people in the U.S., there are far fewer smart rich people's in the U.S.
"Opens new tab" ? Is this written by AI?
No, it's just an artifact of copying reuters
It would only allow cars emitting 90%less vs 2021 level. It’s not much of a change and it leaves room for innovation. It’s not that bad.