This combustion engine ban should not happen because it is completely undemocratic, a huge assault on the poor and working class in Europe for negligible emissions gains and battery pollution.
Neutral
Ugly
This was never going to happen anyway. Net zero by 2050, let alone 2030, is a fantasy. The bureaucrats who came up with this drivel have no idea how much minerals we’re going to have to mine and how long that will take. Our “leaders” are like children.
Excellent
Nice
Raise the gas taxes, there’s no need for a ban
Boy, did I read the headline wrong.
“Cars hitting roadblocks getting EU death sentences now…? What?”
The I re-read…
Everybody, even the ones who voted this, know that in 10 years we will be far from ready to go full electric on cars.
3 or 4 years (or more) before the dead line they will make a statement « we are not ready, we have to improve our efforts, blablabla… »
Finally… someone found their brains.
Honestly I do not understand the ban at all. Why ban combustion engines when we have a viable alternative in the form of efuel?
Yes, efuel is currently expensive but how much progress can be done in 12 years regarding the cost?
Fun thing is I know a lot of people in Germany who hate the FDP for that. They live an alternative reality we’re everyone can own an electric car or uses bikes trains.
Misleading title
Before joining the EU, in Czechia we were told one of the advantages would be the freedom of movement. Nobody told us we’d be allowed to buy only expensive batteries on wheels at some point though.
BEVs are an important part of future grid storage. E-fuels aren’t. Europe needs more strategic thinking.
I’m now suspicious of this post. Half the responders are one word: ‘ugly’, ‘bad’, ‘neutral’ and ‘excellent’. Phishing?
We need radical change, and fast, if we want to actually do something about climate change. I fail to see how this attempt being slowed down (sadly unsurprisingly) is good news
EU is giving those carmakers more than a decade to be ready and they are still saying its not possible to go electric. How pathetic they are.
I mean, someone have to make money in the end. You can’t just kill the industry and expect magic fairies to supply government with money to spend.
This is one thing the UK is actually ahead with; our ban is 2030.
Electric cars are a scam and we will realize in a few years
First the Italians, now the Germans, next week they’ll pretend like the ban never happened
I don’t care that much about this issue, but one thing this does show is that sometimes negotiations in the EU actually fail and may result in legislation not being passed. After article 17 and TERREG, I lost all hope for that.
This is making me cautiously optimistic about the chat control regulation.
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This combustion engine ban should not happen because it is completely undemocratic, a huge assault on the poor and working class in Europe for negligible emissions gains and battery pollution.
Neutral
Ugly
This was never going to happen anyway. Net zero by 2050, let alone 2030, is a fantasy. The bureaucrats who came up with this drivel have no idea how much minerals we’re going to have to mine and how long that will take. Our “leaders” are like children.
Excellent
Nice
Raise the gas taxes, there’s no need for a ban
Boy, did I read the headline wrong.
“Cars hitting roadblocks getting EU death sentences now…? What?”
The I re-read…
Everybody, even the ones who voted this, know that in 10 years we will be far from ready to go full electric on cars.
3 or 4 years (or more) before the dead line they will make a statement « we are not ready, we have to improve our efforts, blablabla… »
Finally… someone found their brains.
Honestly I do not understand the ban at all. Why ban combustion engines when we have a viable alternative in the form of efuel?
Yes, efuel is currently expensive but how much progress can be done in 12 years regarding the cost?
Fun thing is I know a lot of people in Germany who hate the FDP for that. They live an alternative reality we’re everyone can own an electric car or uses bikes trains.
Misleading title
Before joining the EU, in Czechia we were told one of the advantages would be the freedom of movement. Nobody told us we’d be allowed to buy only expensive batteries on wheels at some point though.
BEVs are an important part of future grid storage. E-fuels aren’t. Europe needs more strategic thinking.
I’m now suspicious of this post. Half the responders are one word: ‘ugly’, ‘bad’, ‘neutral’ and ‘excellent’. Phishing?
We need radical change, and fast, if we want to actually do something about climate change. I fail to see how this attempt being slowed down (sadly unsurprisingly) is good news
EU is giving those carmakers more than a decade to be ready and they are still saying its not possible to go electric. How pathetic they are.
I mean, someone have to make money in the end. You can’t just kill the industry and expect magic fairies to supply government with money to spend.
This is one thing the UK is actually ahead with; our ban is 2030.
Electric cars are a scam and we will realize in a few years
First the Italians, now the Germans, next week they’ll pretend like the ban never happened
I don’t care that much about this issue, but one thing this does show is that sometimes negotiations in the EU actually fail and may result in legislation not being passed. After article 17 and TERREG, I lost all hope for that.
This is making me cautiously optimistic about the chat control regulation.