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Nobody is trying to stop the transitions, electric cars are a dog and for shit. Specifically the batteries, they're hyper-expensive, the range is for crap, and
by amy_petrik 1y ago
Nobody is trying to stop the transitions, electric cars are a dog and for shit. Specifically the batteries, they're hyper-expensive, the range is for crap, and they need to be replaced every X years.
The left was idiotic to think dumping Peter's tax money to buy Paul's new e-car, then in other cases outright legally banning non-electric cars, was the way to achieve this. To me, it's as silly as if the government got the idea in its head that steam engine is the winner and starts incentivized steam engine cars, with a year 2030 all-steam-engine goal.
The way to overcome this so-called "entrenched interests" is clear as a bell, it's not some dramatic political struggle against forces old and evil. Electric cars are already in principle more powerful, simpler, and cheaper, than combustion engines, an amazing concept. Only issue is the battery. Government should have been, and should be, pumping money into developing a non-crappy battery, THEN when that's ready, there would be no need to incentivize people. The subsequent cars would be cheaper AND better. Let market forces decide, legislating what people ought to purchase is what is called a command and control economy and evidence shows that's bad
- dns_snek 1y ago> electric cars are a dog and for shit. Specifically the batteries, they're hyper-expensive, the range is for crap, and they need to be replaced every X years. They are expensive, that's true, but the range is such a non-issue for anyone who can charge at home and drives a reasonable commute (i.e. doesn't need to stop to charge on their way home every day), and battery degradation is less than 2% per year. > Let market forces decide, legislating what people ought to purchase is what is called a command and control economy and evidence shows that's bad Equating regulation with communism is really tired rhetoric.