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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours agoEurope 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 16 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.
AA5B@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Here in the US, the reasons people generally cheer for ICE vehicles boil down to how expensive EVs are here. Legacy manufacturers sell them only in premium trims and dealers tack on excessive profit to help discourage them - they truly are not affordable here.
They don’t seem to understand this is a choice by legacy manufacturers, combined with protectionism bought by those same manufacturers.
I suppose there’s a range concern but I don’t see how that has any validity. As people have more direct experience, that should mostly disappear. While there are never enough chargers, most of the population has high speed charging convenient to them and most homeowners can charge at home.
I eventually sold my brother on an EV but the only one he was willing to buy was a Silverado extended range - it’s fine if he wants that I guess but his concern about range was way overboard, especially since he lives in the DC area where there are high speed chargers everywhere and in a private house where he can charge nightly.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
In my experience, how many people think like that really depends on the country of Europe: my own native Portugal is far more shit when it comes to Environmentalism in general - especially around cars as the country has a very 1980s mindset on them and a car is still seen as symbol of status - whilst for example The Netherlands is almost the the opposite.