German car industry calls for reversal of EU 2035 combustion engine ban
German car industry calls for reversal of EU 2035 combustion engine ban

German car industry calls for reversal of EU 2035 combustion engine ban

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/66415028
Jesus Christ... You still have ten fucking years to go all electric. So instead of lamanting get to fucking work!
Many companies have expertise producing things, which are not needed at all in EVs. That means switching industries or let the company die and make as much money in the meantime as possible. Given how difficult it is to switch industries, many choose the later option. For them complaining is just logical.
Also oil companies.
The same was true for steam engines, they were not forbidden but the companies that only complained still went bankrupt.
They did a long time ago. This is in fact a fight between the actual producers that want (and demanded for years) those legal guidelines and a mass of small specialised suppliers that didn't care to (or actually couldn't) change anything about their business model.
Most EVs still cost 10-20K more than their conventional counterparts. Most working class people simply cannot afford an EV, end of story. It has very little to do with "choice" and "awareness" or whatever.
Which is entirely bullshit and partly caused by misplanning proper production numbers and mostly by just plain anti-EV propaganda that unneccessarily reduces demand by making you believe in actual desinformation.
From an economical perspective we knew for many years that EVs are actually cheaper once batteries fall under ~100$/kWh... Now go lookup battery costs...
And alas EVs are actually cheaper already (or are we trying to pretend that people -in particular those struggling to pay the costs- are paying them with available cash and not already financing them over years?).
Working class people rarely can afford new cars anyway and this ban targets initial registrations, not the already existing market of second hand cars.
You need a bigger calculator.
Sure, the purchase price is somewhat higher, but if you look at all the costs in the lifespan of the vehicle, the EVs are cheaper.
Working class people can't afford not to buy EVs.
End of story? Where is the fucking story?
The car companies need to make them more affordable.