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If I have a car and I cannot do a weekend trip with it, why did I spend the money?
EVs are fine for weekend trips, you just have to spend a little more time taking breaks.
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New diesel vehicles are 6.4% of sales in Romania, 15.4% in Bulgaria, 9.5% in Hungary, 12.2% in Croatia. That's a drop except in Bulgaria, where it's the same as last year. And if those 10+ year old diesels are replacing 15, 20+ year old diesels it's still an improvement. https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations...
How are diesel cars with a battery counted? Cars under VAG sell TDI engines with a small battery and call it a hybrid.
The world is in a weird prisoner’s dilemma right now. US, China, to some extent India, are pumping out CO2, and deriving a short term “co2” dividend of higher growth, unencumbered by green transition cost. Europe is somewhat trying harder to transition away, partly for “green” reasons, partly for sovereignty reasons, partly because they just outsourced their industry. Europe is also potentially more affected by clima…
So the article is about huge private EV car marketshare in Denmark, but for the whole EU the EV marketshare of passenger vehicles is around 25% right now, plus around 10% PHEV. China (a much bigger car market) is at 43% EV marketshare, and also another 20% for PHEV. They have invested much more in the passenger vehicle transition to EV than us (the EU). And they did it partly (also, of course, for other reasons) because they have seen this as an opportunity to leapfrog powerful foreign carmakers that have made or sold huge amounts of ICE cars in China and create their own independent car industry.
Which means this is clearly the wrong question. Even if somehow the EU car industry returned to making ICEs, it won't save them.
> India of course would be toast in a hotter world, but perhaps it too poor right now to do much about it easily.
Even so, their 3-wheeler market is already overwhelmingly EVs.
> But discoordinated action won’t move the dial.
And this take is incorrect too. If you have a look at the IPCC RCP scenarios, the worst (RCP8.5 I believe) has already been dropped because it's improbable because the emmission curve has been trending a bit lower as a result of our actions. China's CO2 output is peaking right about now. And we have CBAM. We have to do what's possible.
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EVs are fine for weekend trips, you just have to spend a little more time taking breaks.
Plus avoid when everybody else is having a holiday trip (assuming charging stations don't have unlimited bays available)
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I don't think driving around the country is the main selling point of a car, at least not around here. Huge commutes by car are not a usual thing in my environment, au contrary, I know companies who actively push against that.
If I have a car and I cannot do a weekend trip with it, why did I spend the money?
No wonder, the country is so small that any modern EV can drive it around completely with single charge. They also have abundance of especially wind energy, and the government recently dropped the electricity tax to EU minimum in order to make electricity very affordable for the Danish folks.
eh, this is EU people regularly and en mass do comute across borders for work.
When you do live near the border, it doesn't really matter, in the Schengen area there is no border for all intents and purposes.
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How are diesel cars with a battery counted? Cars under VAG sell TDI engines with a small battery and call it a hybrid.
pretty much no brands with any relevant sales in Europe besides Mercedes and Mazda produce diesel hybrids
The world is in a weird prisoner’s dilemma right now. US, China, to some extent India, are pumping out CO2, and deriving a short term “co2” dividend of higher growth, unencumbered by green transition cost. Europe is somewhat trying harder to transition away, partly for “green” reasons, partly for sovereignty reasons, partly because they just outsourced their industry. Europe is also potentially more affected by clima…
Plus, the US dumped the most CO2 into the atmosphere in the first place. They shat in the pool and now seem be to telling others to clean up the pool. At least we received some good entertainment content from the US in return.
Not much of a consolation but I want to give credit where it’s due.
it is hidden behind paywall, here no paywall and in English https://www.electrive.com/2026/08/04/denmark-evs-account-for... also it should be noted that Denmark has extremely high car registration taxes, so for instance 40K EUR worth ICE car cost after registration 73.5K EUR, while 40K EUR BEV cost after registration 40K EUR, that's really tough choice to make - either you pay 73K EUR for ICE or 40K EUR for BEV, both…
Pound for pound I prefer an EV for as a daily driver (have a Hyundai Ioniq 5). Instant torque, no maintenance to speak of besides tires and windshield fluid. They are not exciting, there is no delicious noise drama. But in the US, the EVs and hybrids/PHEVs have always been, and now more so, more expensive than their ICE counterparts. Good for Denmark, hopefully that spreads here with the next admin.
One immediate downside of EVs that I often see cited in the states, is that even small accident can result in a total insurance write off of the vehicle, much more often or severe than with ICE cars. Which is kind of strange, because new ICE cars pack as much tech.
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pretty much no brands with any relevant sales in Europe besides Mercedes and Mazda produce diesel hybrids
Audi sells 48V diesel mild hybrids, at least where I’m from they make the majority of their sales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Diesel_hybrid_vehicle...