Taking the Politics Out of EVs

[Pod]

Just need EV technology to continue to evolve and prices drop. The market will solve this. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy EV’s, that is just silly. We do have people spewing all kinds of incorrect info for their own gain. Love my Lightning buy tell my friends, we live in the land of the free. Buy whatever you want.

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[Firn]

CAFE standards and mandates. Although the trend seems to be reversing or at least softening, world governments have been in the process of regulating ICE vehicles out of existence.

But this is wrong, this is the rhetoric and conflates the issue.

Banning gas cars would mean to prevent their use. To ban. You cannot have them. Nowhere is that happening.

CAFE standards apply to NEW vehicles and new vehicles only. And the standards for new cars should absolutely get more stringent. No major manufacture will willingly develop towards lower emissions or willingly add emissions equipment. You HAVE to force them, they WONT do so themselves.

But tightening of emissions standards is NOT the same as banning ICE cars, yet it is often claimed to be. Heck, even California "stopping" the sale of ICE cars is not "banning" them.

 

[RickLightning]

I believe California's rule is zero emissions to be sold by 2035. There is no EV mandate. Just have to figure out how to have zero emissions.

 

[John Becker]

No major manufacture will willingly develop towards lower emissions or willingly add emissions equipment. You HAVE to force them, they WONT do so themselves.

Replace the word "manufacturer" with "consumer."
Consumers have to be "forced" to accept CAFE and emissions standards whether they want them or not.

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