She said the commission should introduce more flexible carbon dioxide emission limits and adjustment mechanisms so that carmakers could help shape the industry’s transition.
She said the commission should introduce more flexible carbon dioxide emission limits and adjustment mechanisms so that carmakers could help shape the industry’s transition.
This always pisses me off. More than 10y ago everybody already said that electric vehicles would be the path forward and a necessary transition.
What did the European car makers do back then ? They said “oh you want EV ? Really?! We will make you an EV” and they all made shit like this:
Toy looking ass plastic trashcans that don’t even have heating inside and can’t drive 50km on a good day.
Then they said: “we made your EV, no one is buying it ! People don’t want EV !!!”
Then Tesla made a successful electric luxury car and they never quit whining and crying since then, and eventually dragged their feet into making a normal looking electric car. (Disclaimer: No endorsement for Tesla. Elon has always be a sociopathic PoS. This was very clear from very long ago, I didn’t wait for the Nazi salute to hate him).
European carmakers made the transition, it’s just that people in Europe didn’t buy as many electric cars as they predicted to. Porsche for example already had a 100% EV strategy, but backtracked as they didn’t sell enough.
They didn’t sell enough because of a mix of bad prestige of EVs, intentional and targeted misinformation by lobby groups and because of retarded prices.
The thing about this is that Porsche is a brand for total asshole. You buy a Porsche if you want to drive unreasonably fast, drive loud, annoy other people and really use the road as your personal playground, because you are a rich asshole. Those people are not the perfect target group for EVs, but EVs are perfect cars for everyone else.