Not that it really matters for climate change reasons, as to have any success there we’d have to move away from Cars as per the IPCC and climate scientists
but also makes clear that simply replacing gasoline with batteries won’t be enough: cities must also dramatically curtail the use of automobiles and avoid “locking in” future emissions with more car-dependent infrastructure.
And a Climate Scientist
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-expert-comment-future-electric-fast.html
“Only by curbing all motorized transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possibly can we tackle the climate and air pollution crises”
We’re already building GWs of new coal to make ecars
https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/110868169284217016
With only a couple weeks of diesel/petrol reserves you’d think hawkish conservative dipshits would be pushing ecars constantly as a national security solution. We have endless bast solar and wind reserves
Don’t get me wrong, everytime some ass cunt in an ICE car or ute comes past as I cycle, I curse the stench and pollution, so, at least with ecars I don’t get to have that shitty “experience”
If you want to give an absolute gift to the right wing you do this. Would lead to the mother of all culture wars.
This comment nails it, you would get the current centre-left wing government kicked out so fast it would be called a miracle election win, every bush turkey would be up in arms and every 4wd and ute driving tradie and talk back radio would explode
Australians aren’t afraid of change
Australia has the highest per capita solar capacity, now over 1.4kW.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we are near the top on solar battery installs as well, especially after the latest governments rebates
but forcing this through is silly and in the context of how little co2 we emit, pretty pointless
It’s inevitable there will be a landslide to EV’s once they hit 1000KM range, fast charge times and plenty of options for utes/4wds/tradies as all our top car sales are utes:
Model H1 2025 deliveries YTD change Ford Ranger 28,311 -15.6% Toyota HiLux 26,267 -7.9% Toyota RAV4 24,034 -5.4% Toyota Prado 15,583 +345.5% Isuzu D-Max 14,065 -11.1% Ford Everest 12,294 +9.0% Mazda CX-5 11,991 +0.6% Mitsubishi Outlander 11,399 -21.1% Hyundai Kona 11,241 +25.6% Kia Sportage 10,588 +0.8% Tesla Model Y 10,431 -16.7%Just keep putting fuel up to pay for green initiatives like pt and bike freeways.
