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The rest of the world is embracing electric and hydrogen, and many countries are planning to outlaw petrol and diesel by as early as 2020.
VW has already publically stated that it's last petrol/diesel car will be in 2025 and other manufacturers are following suit.
That's what happens when headline writers don't read the story. Volkswagen's last new design gas and diesel engines will start in 2025/26. They'll still be making cars with them for years afterwards.
Electric car domination is inevitable, as are electric ships...the holdout will be electric passenger aircraft, simply because of the power requirements. Ironically passenger jets account for 9% of the world's carbon emmissions. That's a lot.
Wonder how much shipping pollutes ? I'm guessing quite bit, probably more than passenger jets.
As soon as electric cars reduce consumption by a million barrels a day we start heading for surplus and cheap gas........happening now
You do realize that much of electricity generation is by FOSSIL FUELS like Coal, and Natural Gas, right? We are already a net exporter of oil, and our energy prices, including GASOLINE are extremely low.
Outlawing the most efficient and economical form of energy. Humans really are stupid
Economical and the most practical, they are not very efficient. Most of the energy is wasted through engine heat and exhaust. We could include braking as well if you want to to compare to cars that generate and store energy when braking.
Emission standards are being relaxed. Trump won't alienate the Saudis. Gasoline is under two bucks a gallon. SUVs are replacing the sedan.
Are the richest of the rich trying to kill the electric car?
I think you meant to say "Trump won't alienate the Canadians."
You import 3,093,000 barrels per day from Canada, but only 949,000 per day from Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis are irrelevant, and have been for a long time.
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No they are trying to keep cars economically available for the poor. When Europe outlaws gas and diesel in 2040, the poor will lose their transportation. Should do wonders for their economy.
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No, Governments on just about every level are putting in mandates for electric cars. The market (people's wants and needs), not government should be the ultimate decider.
Those laws will ultimately be repealed or delayed in their implementation.
The percentage of electric car owners in Britain -- who plans on banning gasoline and diesel cars by 2040 -- is the same as the percentage in the US, and for the exact same reason, namely that electric cars are unaffordable for the vast majority of US and British Households.
Emission standards are being relaxed. Trump won't alienate the Saudis. Gasoline is under two bucks a gallon. SUVs are replacing the sedan.
Are the richest of the rich trying to kill the electric car?
Anybody supporting electrical car is either too stupid to graduate high school or anti science.
In physics and chemistry, the law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant.
There are only so many ways to generate electricity. Except for water, wind and solar, which way doesn’t generate pollution?
There’s a waste of energy to generate electricity by burning oil and another waste to transfer electricity to kinetic energy - moving the car.
It would be much more efficient and cleaner to just burn fuel.
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