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Carmaker says it will ‘press ahead’ with plans to achieve 100% EV in Europe and all new models will be entirely electric

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Who cares. Electric Cars aren't a solution to anything, and if climate change was actually the priority of any government the discussion would be phasing out personal Automobiles by 2030, not talking about EVs.

[–] Varyk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dumb dumb dumb.

"Hospitals to enact rule compelling doctors and surgeons to wash hands."

"Who cares? That won't get rid of all bacteria and viruses existing, just reduce infection rates and improve the entire healthcare industry."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s better than literally nothing but not great, yes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But but but remote combustion vehicles are going to get us to net zero.

The religion of insanely expensive remote combustion vehicles is pure entertainment gold

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our entire cities are built wrong for that approach. I'm with you on the spirit, I mean, building suburban sprawl post-2000 should be a literal crime with jail time. But the fact is that our cities are what they are. Suburbia is built for cars, and there's a crap load of it that people will still be living in post-2030.