Germany currently has the highest energy prices in the world. It seems seriously insane to suggest banning IC cars before you have a concrete plan to have any kind of sufficient energy supply. How do you cope with tens of millions of EVs charging every night? Also, if there is no enormous breakthrough in the next decade in battery technology, car ownership will become a luxury for the rich. (I use public transport da…
EU approves effective ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035
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Re: EU approves effective ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035
#42All major car manufacturers already set earlier dates to phase out their ICE production. This announcement has basically no impact. I also don't buy the argument that this is going to be a problem energy- or grid-wise. It's 12 years out and the grid has to change anyway. If it doesn't until then, then it will be the least of our problems.
Re: EU approves effective ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035
#43Re: EU approves effective ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035
#44I can see these kinds of bans working in the EU where car ownership isn't a necessity. However, in the US where cars are often the ONLY means of transportation, I imagine they will go down like a lead filled balloon. How many barely running gas cars are the only thing letting poorer Americans make it to work and school? I really wish the US would work much harder on making car ownership unnecessary. In the end though…