Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 day ago
Coal Brittain -> Petro Murica -> Electro China.
It’s funny how China said years ago that was the plan and they’re doing it while nobody stopped them because of short term greed.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What would “stopping them” have even looked like?
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Competing. No one really even tried.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Europe just did a 180 on the commitment for no ICE cars to be sold from 2035 onwards under pressure of just a handful of big automakers.
And when I say Europe, I actually mean crooked European politicians rather than the public in general.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
I personally know people who cheered for the extension of ICE cars to be sold, so it’s not only “crooked politicians”, this is an actual sentiment among people.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 day ago
Yeah, it means giving up the current cash cow and they’ll only do that when it’s visibly dying. And then the competition has too much of a headed start so it’s already to late.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tesla is definitely “trying” by number of units produced. Volkswagen is also taking EVs very seriously, at least by current and projected manufacturing numbers.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Lol Volkswagen, the company that actively rigged diesel cars to pass the tests… ? Dieselgate. The German car manufacturers are hopelessly late at EV because they wanted to drain every last penny out of their ICE. The EU setback to extend ICE is after German car manufacturers lobbied… They are killing themselves in the long run, for bit more production in the short run. They saw this all coming decades ago and made wrong choices. Now they’re fucked. The Volkswagen id (EV) sales numbers are so disappointing they had to lower production and make employees stay home.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Facing reality and evaluating technologies through the crucial era of the 2010s with an eye on efficiency and pollutant reduction in the overall energy sector. From there, having the empirical justifications to your nation that focusing on energy storage and further electrification would be more beneficial than fossil fuels.
Rather than doubling down on the existing status quo due to lobbying and sunk cost beliefs from prior consumption rates.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure. But that doesn’t change China’s economic growth path. You aren’t changing their behavior
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Oh, certainly. However, if enough nations had their heads out of their asses and spoke with engineers rather than oil tycoons, we’d have a more competitive and distributed market for these technologies and a lower future dependence on Chinese imports for said technologies.
Right now, I can see a chokehold forming on that sector, and it’s a completely self-inflicted circumstance for those deadset on oil.