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Because there's a good chance that the economy couldn't handle it on their own, or that they would take very long. There's the chicken-egg-problem of no one dr
by Sylos 10y ago
Because there's a good chance that the economy couldn't handle it on their own, or that they would take very long.
There's the chicken-egg-problem of no one driving electric cars, therefore no one building charging stations, therefore no one buying electric cars.
This problem isn't going to solve itself without someone investing a lot of money into building charging stations. And so far, such an investment was an extreme risk. There was no guarantee that you'd make a dime off of your money.
With this ban upcoming, you're essentially guaranteed to make money in at most 15 years.
- petre 10y agoMaybe electric cars are not that great then? If an electric car would cost somethilng like a regular car and offer 600 km range on a "tank" full of electricity or hydrogen, everyone would buy one without the need of banning regular cars. This is exactly how railway steam engines lost ground to diesel and then to electric. Electric cars already have other advantages such as the lack of needong a gearbox, very good torque/seed characteristic which enables fast acceleration. I'm all for electric cars, but outright banning regular cars at EU level just feels plain wrong. What about forcing this upon other less wealthy EU member states, just like they did with migrant quotas? Selectively banning them at city level by the local authorities due to pollution and noise is a much better idea.
- dsfyu404ed 10y ago>What about forcing this upon other less wealthy EU member states, just like they did with migrant quotas This. If you can handle the economic fallout from doubling down on teslas, volts and leafs and legislating away everything else then good for you but don't make everyone else do it.