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they are not necessarily near future if you don't threaten companies and buyers with 2035 ICE cars ban if we didn't have subsidies and extra taxes on ICE the m
by Markoff 16d ago
they are not necessarily near future if you don't threaten companies and buyers with 2035 ICE cars ban
if we didn't have subsidies and extra taxes on ICE the market would be completely different, EVs still can't compete for anyone not living in own house with FV, even if you would save significant amount of money on each km the price difference would pay itself after hundreds of thousands km, if whole market was not overregulated by EU pushing EVs and trying to discourage people from buying EU produced ICE cars
up until very recently 90% of newly registered EVs in Czechia are registered on company, only 10% of already very small EV market share are ordinary private buyers and mind that's still with benefits like cheaper/free parking for EVs or (up until recently) free highways
- toomuchtodo 16d ago> they are not necessarily near future if you don't threaten companies and buyers with 2035 ICE cars ban This argument is irrelevant. Climate change is real. Combustion vehicle bans are to contribute towards mitigating climate change. Electric vehicles are an essential solution to decarbonizing transportation. EVs are now both cheaper to manufacture as well as to operate than combustion vehicles over their lifetime, without subsidies, and superior for the climate. Western manufacturers can either try to survive or die against Chinese manufacturing, those are the options, as nothing will stop China from continuing to ramp EV production and exports to the world. Peak combustion vehicle sales was 2017, the industry will only shrink in this regard. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electric-car-sales?tab=line&country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electric-car-sales?tab=li... https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-explorer/ https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e... Global sales of combustion engine cars peaked in 2017 - https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-sales-of-combustion-engine-cars-peaked-in-2017 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-sales-of-com... - May 21st, 2026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehicles#Places_with_planned_fossil-fuel_vehicle_restrictions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...
- toomuchtodo 16d agoSaudis Give European Oil Buyers No Supplies for Next Month - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-18/saudis-tell-european-refiners-they-ll-get-no-crude-next-month https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-18/saudis-te... | https://archive.ph/vMUqP https://archive.ph/vMUqP - September 18th, 2026