This is simply because China does not control oil supply, so they do not have a choice.
China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks
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#12This is simply because China does not control oil supply, so they do not have a choice.
Uzbekistan does not control the oil supply either.
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#13https://outline.com/C7Nddc
This is helpful because the article is behind a paywall, but it makes me curious about the ethical/moral/legal questions that arise from a tool that seemingly copies other site's content verbatim.
People might get annoyed with publishers like WJS for putting content behind a paywall, but at least they are trying to find a sustainable model in this post-web world. Putting up a paywall is a pretty gutsy move given the abundance of free news options.
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#14I'm glad they do.
I always thought, when 1 Billion Chinese will start to drive cars instead of bicycles, we're all toast (literally).
It seems, that also the Chinese government knows this, and they're doing the right thing.
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#15Relax! These articles remind me of newspaper articles fawning about the cute European mobile phones of early to mid 2000s admonishing us dumb Americans and iPhone happened. Electric bus is not moon landing. Edit: I don’t complain about downvoting, downvote to your hearts desire but stop absurdly flagging comments. Edit2: one of top posts is a guy wishing dictatorship in west so he can get carbon tax, and but my tongu…
Ah yes, good ole American Exceptionalism to save the day. Just waiting for some miracle cure or the ansible to achieve all that we ever dreamed of.
Do you suppose we would do it earlier rather than later if we could? The fact is, there are political forces that are impeding technological change.
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#16I'm glad they do. I always thought, when 1 Billion Chinese will start to drive cars instead of bicycles, we're all toast (literally). It seems, that also the Chinese government knows this, and they're doing the right thing.
They know that they'll have an easier time producing batteries and electricity than gasoline, that's all.
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#17Just came back from Shenzen, seemed like most of the taxis were electric. You can tell because they're blue vs the red gas taxis. Another ingenious thing they do is there's an added fee to ride red taxis, so people avoid them like they're plague-ridden when they have other options. I thought that was a brilliant use of taxing externalities, you let customers decide whether paying the fee is worth it.
That type of taxation of externalities is really a no-brainer in the West too, but there’s just not democratic majority for implementing it. A tragedy. Tragedy of the commons, really, on a spectacular scale.
A general CO2 tax wouldn’t be hard to implement if we were a dictatorship.
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#18I'm glad they do. I always thought, when 1 Billion Chinese will start to drive cars instead of bicycles, we're all toast (literally). It seems, that also the Chinese government knows this, and they're doing the right thing.
They know that they'll have an easier time producing batteries and electricity than gasoline, that's all.
Is the world running out of petrol? Chinese fuel prices are fairly cheap on a global scale.
It has far more to do with public discontent over air quality than petro-politics.
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#19https://outline.com/C7Nddc
This is helpful because the article is behind a paywall, but it makes me curious about the ethical/moral/legal questions that arise from a tool that seemingly copies other site's content verbatim. People might get annoyed with publishers like WJS for putting content behind a paywall, but at least they are trying to find a sustainable model in this post-web world. Putting up a paywall is a pretty gutsy move given the…
The article have 76 cookies (48 third-party), and send almost 300 third-party requests that violate the privacy of the readers. https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en/results?url=http%3A%2F%2Fw...
I think people should be more curious and concerned about the ethical and moral behaviour of these publishers.