Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working
www.businessinsider.com
From GM to Tesla to Mercedes, execs across the auto industry are tempering expectations on electric vehicles.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!

Meanwhile, my Hybrid Maverick is backordered so long, they’re asking people to switch to the gas only engine. But hey, this stuff doesn’t sell.

Here’s an idea, instead of only selling $80k+ EVs, sell some $25k ones.

  • weedwhacking@lemmy.worldEnglish
    78·
    1 year ago

    Obviously. EVs don’t solve anything - just move the consumption from one type of energy to another.

    We need walkable cities and high quality public transport.

    We will need socialism first to make that happen tho so the CEOs are gonna keep blaming the consumers for them not making the profits they oh so desperately hoard.

    • Banzai51@midwest.socialOPEnglish
      63·
      1 year ago

      Load of horseshit. More and more of our electricity is renewables. It grows every year. And EVs DO solve emissions problems. In the US we are NOT getting walkable cities. That ship sailed about 150 years ago.

      • weedwhacking@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Maybe if we properly embraced modern nuclear power. I don’t see that happening anytime soon though

      • x2Zero7@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I gotta call bs chief. My city, notoriously car dependent in the 70s, just removed a lane of traffic on a major local road (leads from business/commercial to a residential area and high school) and put a grade-separated pedestrian only path.

        You cannot give up on walkable cities. We can build them; EVs are for the car industry - Yes they do reduce emissions but still reinforce car dependency causing a lovely cocktail of knock effects that encourage decimating our environment, preventing investment from staying local to the community [pop up shops don’t stick around in karen fortresses], and actively builds a hostile environment.

        Like, yeah we gotta have cars, but don’t kid yourself in that scenario preventing walkable cities. Cars are new. Walkable cities are not. If we as a nation invested in 45% of what we do on the highways Amtrak would probably run through every capital once, maybe even twice a day.

        But we don’t. Because for some reason we as a society simply cannot invest in transit that isn’t a half-baked asphalt slap. It just isn’t possible. Nope. We’ll fuckin die if we do anything other than subsidize car companies that can more than afford investing in themselves because if the stock market does that go up and make a few people more rich the world is falling apart /s