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I hope it's not an overreaction to the current reactionary anti-ESG trend. We do need electric cars; they are the future.
by wolverine876 3y ago
I hope it's not an overreaction to the current reactionary anti-ESG trend. We do need electric cars; they are the future.
- somedude895 3y agoDo we need Apple specifically to make an electric car?
- astrodust 3y agoThis is not the question Apple is trying to answer. If you're trying to expand the market of a company with such a broad reach already there aren't many markets big enough to move the needle on revenue. Real-estate, food, fashion and automotive are the only ones really significant enough to tackle, and of those, automotive isn't an unreasonable one to explore. Unless you want a literal Apple Home.
- danielmarkbruce 3y agoAI has given a lot of people a lot of cover to kill projects which are going nowhere. Rather than "this was a terrible idea, we've wasted a bunch of money" they get to say "AI is transformational, we have to allocate resources to it and hence we are cutting X, Y, Z".
- tr_user 3y agoFuture of what? Reliable mass public transport is the best option for a sustainable future. We don't need car centric suburbia but with heavier and more expensive cars.
- tumult 3y agoEven if the US and other car-centric countries started a serious effort on that today, it would take decades. During which people continue to use gasoline cars, and emitting more CO2 we will need to undo in the future. Electric cars make sense right now regardless of your perspective on trains (I like trains, and dislike cars, and I am sympathetic)
- wolverine876 3y ago> Reliable mass public transport is the best option I agree, but I don't think that's actually going to replace cars and it doesn't serve everyone, such as the people who live far outside cities.
- cmdli 3y agoWe already have car centric suburbia and its going to take decades to change that. We might as well switch to electric cars which are quieter and produce less air pollution rather than wait for thousands of homes to be rebuilt.
- insane_dreamer 3y agoexcept that mass public transportation is never going to happen on the needed scale in the US; electric cars is the next best thing and much preferable to the current status quo
- cagenut 3y agoyou don't even need to agree on 'never' as 'not in the next 25 years' and 'never' both look the same for the timeframe we have to decarbonize personal transportation. whether we have a world of 3 billion cars (doubling) or a world of 750 million cars (halving) in 2050, they all need to be electric.
- micromacrofoot 3y agoI absolutely am on board with the idea... but reliable mass public transport requires an entire country of cities to be redesigned (this is in a country that struggles to get zoning laws changed to move from single to multi-family housing in many places), we'll have self-driving cars first. Hell, I think we'd get flying cars first. It's nearly impossible to touch anything that requires modifying suburbs or their streets, politically.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoI don't follow. Why would anti-ESG folks be against an Apple car?
- wolverine876 3y agoThey are pushing companies (and universities and governments and everyone else) to abandon efforts to stop climate change.