Posted on 06/09/2022 3:24:01 AM PDT by markomalley
The European Parliament on Wednesday endorsed a ban on new cars with combustion engines by 2035, hoping to prompt speedier development of electric vehicles to battle climate change.
Lawmakers voted to mandate automakers to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 100% within 13 years, essentially banning the sale in the 27-nation bloc of new cars powered by gasoline or diesel.
EU lawmakers also endorsed a 55% reduction in automobile carbon dioxide emissions.
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Why not just wait for them to go away on their own? In five years, finding a new ICE car will be like finding a manual transmission.
I though AOC and the Swedish Meatball kid said we only had less than 8 years left before their environMENTAL ratsasstrophy happens. The lefties may want to speed thing up a little. LOL
Why would they go away if there’s a large market for it?
Do you think there’s enough infrastructure ready in 5 years?
I work in electrical distribution. We are swamped perpetually, and can’t keep up.
I workforce is way too small, and way too old.
There’s a real bottleneck in our industry.
According to old school Gore, we’re already dead...
“Our workforce”
This is madness. We don’t have the power, the charging stations or the repair facilities for this. I’m watching two new gas stations being built - but not one charging station.
People aren’t yet waking up to the fact that travel beyond 100 miles from home will be restricted, if not by law by available resources - and I’m not seeing a rush to build any new power plants.
We are still in the boutique stage, early adopters love it because the plug-in at the grocery store is empty most of the time. Add 50 electric cars. Those two chargers will be in use all day - but with the ability to only charge two at a time, you’ll never find them empty.
Ok, that’s the grocery store. But what happens on the road? Will we need to book ahead for chargers? Will your 400 mile trip to see family have to wait because there’s no available charging station?
The only way they could achieve their goal is with nuclear power.
Their goal is the destruction of Western civilization, not “climate change”.
China smiles.
And that’s just the generation component.
There will need to be transmission and distribution upgrades.
Where are they getting all the transformers, and metering components from?…
Self destructive idiots.,. Russia just needs to wait another 13 years and Europe is there’s.
Ever driven through a big apartment complex? Thousands of units. Thousands of cars. All outside. All in uncovered, unassigned parking. Where are all those cars going to plug into a night?
They have to sell their cars and ride the bus…
Exactly.
I tell people “Imagine everyone in California comes home after work and plugs in their electric car.
The grid can’t handle a normal load, now.
What happens?”
In fairness, I haven't really seen large blocks of flats with massive posting lots in Europe like you have in the States. Mostly those are in city areas and are well serve by public transportation (busses, streetcars, and rail) that actually works and, prior to their suicidal experiment with accepting illegals from third world hellholes, they were relatively safe.
In countries without good transit systems, like a lot of Italy, motorbikes (motor scooters) are used a lot.
But for people who live in apartments in Europe, cars aren't really a thing. Gas prices normally are like California gas prices under Bidenflation.
Your point is taken though. Even with that, there's still going to be a huge issue there.
More V-12 Jaguars for me.
The West legislates itself to oblivion, as Asia and Africa pat themselves on the back for being clever.
“Why would they go away if there’s a large market for it?
Do you think there’s enough infrastructure ready in 5 years?
I work in electrical distribution. We are swamped perpetually, and can’t keep up.
I workforce is way too small, and way too old.
There’s a real bottleneck in our industry.”
Sorry, gotta laugh. You’re not much good at seeing beyond the here and now. Everything you say is true about every market for every good and every service, now. That’s the way markets work. In five years, everything you say will still be true, but 75% of the cars will be electric, and 95% of the new cars sold will be electric. The electric grid will still be swamped, the work force will still be too small, and that darned bottleneck will still be there.
“This is madness.”
It is Zeno’s paradox.
Calm down, and let the people whose heads don’t hurt when they think.
If you actually think 75% of cars will be electric in 5 years, you are devoid of intellectual analysis.
There are currently around 276 million cars in the US.
So according to you, in 5 years, they will build & sell 207 million electric vehicles.
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