Italia e Germania si uniscono alle case automobilistiche nell’appello a riconsiderare il divieto dei motori a combustione interna
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/25/italy-germany-join-carmakers-in-call-to-rethink-internal-combustion-engine-ban
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Yeah, let’s just fuck the environment! Why do we vote in such spineless politicians…
I rethought, it’s still great.
Apparently the oil and car industry have a lot more power than large rich developed nations.
We should re think it yes. Should be 2030, not 2035
“The EU had two choices, the Italian minister said: firstly, to keep the target and create the conditions to allow the car industry to achieve it – an approach favoured by German economy minister Robert Habeck. “Or if we fail to do all this we just have to…postpone the objectives,” he said.”
Create the conditions, please! Dropping EV subsidies from one day to the next (!) because our finance minister with a hardon for balanced budgets wanted to was a major blunder. The car industry is an oil tanker and takes at least five years to make major course changes, you cannot just make up decisions from one day to the next.
Ah yes, the absolutely most objective insitutions around had a big think and decided that they don’t feel like spending all that money on developing new technology, who could have predicted that?
I wonder what the oil industry thinks about the subject? Surely they too have no ulterior motives.
Does anyone have a shovel? We could poll Alexander VI on the separation of church and state, I’m sure he has much to add. Or maybe we need the input of some confederate leaders on that whole slavery issue.
The 2035 ban was never going to hold up with car manufacturers treating electric cars as luxury products and without meaningful legislation from the EU.
“More tax money to subsidize a dead Technologie please”
Maybe the right questions, but by the wrong people.
Dig deeper, your grave is too shallow yet.
Burgeoasie can yap about enviroment as much as they want, the reality is that internal combustion ban and taxes are devastating to the lower classes which are struggling with buying new overregulated and expensive cars
Electric, battery powered cars can’t replace combustion engine. NOTHING can replace the diesel engine in trucks and ships. Not by 2035 and not with the tech we have today. Until we have a better technology, we are stuck with the combustion engine.
Someone’s been lobbying
So ironic that Germany doesn’t just promote/prolong their fossil car production, they are also crippling their rail infra… DB is one of the worst operators there and there are no exact timeframes when problems will be fixed. Worse trains=more ppl use more cars
It’s easy to blame the manufacturers but the truth is also that people in the EU don’t buy electric vehicles. If you look in the top 25 you only see the Tesla Model Y:
https://uk.motor1.com/news/727691/most-sold-cars-europe-2024-h1-ranking/
Now you can say it’s only because of price but people are also not really buying the cheap electric vehicles (like those ominous cheap Chinese cars that we hear so much about).
The companies can’t operate at a loss until 2035. If people want this to work, they have to buy EVs.
Greed will destroy humanity.
Trump is just not being a hypocrite or a virtue signaler like the EU. We all know we’ll use oil till we either use it all up, or it becomes so expensive so as to have to move to another cheaper energy source. Or longshot fusion … But in any case it won’t happen till the end of this century.
Electric cars have 2 problem, battery degradation and range. People are less likely to buy second hand electric cars because of degradation and they are reticent to switch because of range concerns.
Range is looking to be resolved by more charging points and better batteries, but that doesn’t get to the heart of it.
In my opinion it requires a different approach, a regulatory one. Just like phones etc, car batteries should be replaceable. Instead of charging the car, switch the battery out for a fresher one.
Batteries can then be charged in dedicated stations. Also because the huge cost of replacing the battery is now removed, the barrier to second hand purchases is removed and the depreciation curve is addressed. Further by taking the price of the battery out of the car, the costs are massively reduced.
Yes it will take massive retooling of manufacturing but I honestly think it’s the only way electric cars will gain mainstream adoption.