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“an electric makeover—and offer a cut-price way to avoid driving bans across European cities.” Lower middle class and low emission zones. People don't have the
by markvdb 7y ago
“an electric makeover—and offer a cut-price way to avoid driving bans across European cities.”
Lower middle class and low emission zones. People don't have the budget to upgrade their cars and risk losing car mobility. Ask my hippie uncle in his old van. Meanwhile, there's air travel without externalities priced-in, electric vehicle subsidies, home battery subsidies, and more disproportionally benefiting us upper middle class and rich people.
This social problem is all over Western Europe. To those who don't care about social exclusion or global warming, it's free votes, free political capital. So no political consensus forthcoming on how to deal with it...