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>EU fuel prices and mandatory technical maintenance costs Both of which are predicated on continued political will. I can see the out of touch upper middle cl
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
>EU fuel prices and mandatory technical maintenance costs
Both of which are predicated on continued political will.
I can see the out of touch upper middle class driving things far enough off a cliff that populists get elected and change these things.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoThis is exactly what I am expecting as well. People here earning 100k USD a year can't comprehend that people who earn 20k EUR a year or less does not have means to buy even a used BEV. But they have means to buy 15 years old beater.
- PeterisP 4y agoIf they're not buying new cars, then nothing changes for them in 2035; and if they buy 15-year old beaters, then there's time until 2050 for the used EV market to normalize - because right now it is (of course) distorted as the early adopter EV cars were more of the expensive end and not represent the median family car.
- arrrg 4y agoWhat‘s your proposal to get transportation emissions to zero? Mine is an appropriate CO2 price (pricing in the currently not priced in externalities) and then distributing most of the money from that equally back to everyone (meaning those who earn less and also pollute less will on average get more money back than the increase in CO2 costs for them while still preserving a strong incentive to reduce emissions). It seems pretty clear to me that in that world BEVs are the only viable way forward for personal transportation.