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I agree with the benefits you cite, but isn’t the problem that EVs are still too expensive for most people? Additionally, what is the plan to build a grid that

• ncmncm 4y ago
  A very great deal of solar and wind generating capacity will need to be built out in any case. EVs get cheaper all the time.
• MandieD 4y ago
  The people for whom they're too expensive will do what people who can't afford/stomach the price of buying new already do: buy used. Those are allowed to be ICEs even after 2035. They might drive used car demand from neighboring states or other parts of the country for a few years. The old saying "it loses 20% of its value when you drive it off the lot" may be over longer than just the current supply chain crunch. I've never bought a new car, and I'm a well-paid software engineer (by German standards) married to an engineering manager, who has also never bought a new car, or any car that cost more than 17k EUR (post-baby, lightly-used station wagon, August 2021). EVs have come down in price and grown in variety over the past decade; I expect that our next vehicle will be a used EV, or at least a plug-in hybrid. Many EU countries have set similar deadlines for new ICE sales. I imagine that countries with 2035 deadlines will still have some public gas pumps around throughout the 2040's - pumps providing the 50:2 mix Trabants need are still around at some filling stations in the former East Germany, and those haven't been made since the early 90s.
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