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I doubt that this model is sustainable. In Denmark, the tax exemption on electric vehicles is now being phased out because it got too popular and the resulting
by larschdk 10y ago
I doubt that this model is sustainable. In Denmark, the tax exemption on electric vehicles is now being phased out because it got too popular and the resulting decrease in tax revenue would be to heavy.
- msh 10y agoEh no. It got phased out because we got a government who don't believe in subsidising things that are good for the environment. One of the support parties don't even believe that global warming is caused by human activity.
- fulafel 10y agoCars are not good for the environment. Lifetime co2 footprint of electric cars are in the same ballpark as efficient petrol cars.
- msh 10y agoDepends a lot on how the electricity is generated. If most electricity is generated by wind and solar very different from if it was generated by coal.
- Gibbon1 10y agoAnd soon you won't have big daddy coal to kick around anymore. I think I saw a heat map that showed the CO2 footprint of electric cars based on location. Here is one, there is a huge variation between states. http://blog.wegowise.com/2012-06-26-your-cars-carbon-footprint-hybrid-vs.-gasoline-vs.-electric-cars http://blog.wegowise.com/2012-06-26-your-cars-carbon-footpri... The CO2 contribution from electricity is going to get better not worse, especially in states like California. California is hell bent to get off fossil fuels.
- fulafel 10y agoEven in the hypothetical case of clean electricity the lifetime co2 emissions are significant of resource intensive manufacturing, as roughly half of the lifetime co2 footprint happens in manufacturing phase. Better than gasoline powered cars, but not order of magnitude better. So we still can't have everyone driving cars in the future.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoIt isn't intended to be sustainable, it's explicitly stated that these perks will go away in a couple of years.