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> Does banning diesel and petrol stop BEV manufacturers having incentives to improve? They will simply get the market for free and own it without having to impr
by avianlyric 4y ago
> Does banning diesel and petrol stop BEV manufacturers having incentives to improve? They will simply get the market for free and own it without having to improve batteries, charging speed and range.
Why would banning diesel and petrol cars result in BEV manufacturers not competing? They would still compete with each other to build the best BEV at the lowest price, just like any other market works. Just like the competition between ICE manufacturers resulted in ICE improvements for decades before EV turned up.
- sandworm101 4y agoThey need to compete against other techs, against other concepts. Making one tech the single and permanent option in perpetuity is just wrong. Tech has to evolve, not just incrementally improve.
- avianlyric 4y agoWho’s talking about making BEV the only option in perpetuity? Claiming we need ICE so BEVs have a tech to compete with, is like arguing in 2000 that we need the horse and cart so ICE has something to compete with.
- sandworm101 4y agoWhich they did. For decades horses shared the road with cars, still do in many areas. Even today they are not totally banned. Henry ford built a better product. He wasnt out there trying to make the old products illegal.
- avianlyric 4y agoBig difference is the old products didn’t cause serious climate change that threatens the long term survival of our species. I think we can afford to take a minor hit of competition to avoid that fate. Unless people honestly believe that BEVs will simply stop improving if ICE vehicles aren’t around to provide “competition”.