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Originally Posted by mikemhg
This whole EV wave was just a ridiculous scam in so many ways. People who understand current tech, and the market itself seen this coming YEARS ago.
The idea of pivoting full EV by 2035 was such a ludicrous goal, flushed through by feckless and moronic politicians. When will these guys tell the truth in that we simply won't be there by 2035?
A lot of these CEOs are about to look pretty stupid in the next year or two by throwing all their chips into going full EV with their lineups. It reminds me of the NFT/Crypto craze of the early 2020s where so many seemingly educated fools fell hook line and sinker for such an asinine idea.
It's utterly baffling.
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Probably they're going for a self-fulfilling prophecy kind of thing. If we (via the politicians we voted for) don't find a way to reassure car companies that there's some kind of motivation to burn up money on R&D spend + reduced profit margins, then why would they do it?
Politicians committing now to a 2035 ICE ban in addition to incentivizing EV sales and charging infrastructure probably means that EV technology and scale makes economic and environmental sense by 2040.
If politicians committed to a 2040 ICE ban, then that wouldn't come til 2045.
Or if they didn't commit to anything, then we wouldn't get there at all.
And meanwhile, global warming isn't going to wait. Switching to EVs probably isn't going to move the needle enough all by itself but it's a necessary part of a larger effort.
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Who cares about switching to an EV somewhere where you burn fuel to generate electricity, it’s pointless.
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The premise is that it's a lot more efficient to convert fuel to energy at centralized power plants, than in a bunch of individual internal combustion engines.
Also, it's better for human health not to be dissipating all the pollution where the population is concentrated.